[1] Early members of the collective that founded the company included writer Rudy Wiebe and University of Alberta academics Douglas Barbour, George Melnyk, and Diane Bessai.
[2] The first title published by the company was Getting Here, an anthology of short stories by students in Barbour's and Wiebe's creative writing classes at the University of Alberta.
Contributors included Aritha Van Herk, Myrna Kostash, Candas Jane Dorsey, Caterina Edwards, and Helen Rosta.
[2] The company publishes literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, mystery novels, and drama, with a particular but not exclusive interest in books by authors from Western Canada.
[4] The company's board of directors includes Leslie Vermeer (president),[3] Anne Nothof (vice-president), Wendy McGrath (treasurer), Jenna Butler (secretary), Diane Bessai (honorary member), Kit Dobson, Smaro Kamboureli, Nicole Markotic, Suzette Mayr, and Michael Phair Authors who have been published by the company include: