An article in the current issue of the Canadian Jewish News discusses the recent OAC funding cuts to Guernica Editions.
"Though serving the Italian community primarily," writes staff reporter Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf, "the publication also is home to a variety of ethnic wordsmiths, including a smattering of Jewish, award-winning authors and poets who are none-too-pleased by the provincial agency’s decision to reject this year’s grant application."
"[The withdrawal of funding] puts a financial strain on us,”publisher Antonio D'Alfonso is quoted as saying. “This isn’t a money-making job. Everyone who works with us works for peanuts... Are books like shoes, ham or potatoes? We are a literary press. We produce books about ethnic culture, cultural pluralism. This is a slow process. When we started, ‘multicultural’ barely existed as a term. Guernica was one of the first presses to deal with such issues.”
The full article can be read on the Canadian Jewish News website: http://bit.ly/4svYeP
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