Voices That Challenge. Ideas That Matter.
Publishing Bold Ideas
APF Press serves University / College faculty and students by producing high quality academic books in Canada. Our company is inclusive and supports thoughtful and critical perspectives. We aim to publish work relating to racialized community, community-based concerns, social justice, and human rights. Our authors are academics, activists, artists, professional practitioners who seek to encourage readers to be curious, committed and courageous in challenging inequities. It is APF’s aim to introduce and promote Canadian scholars . APF is especially committed to publishing authors who are typically under-represented or whose work tends to be rejected by mainstream publishers. Equally, APF is proud to publish scholarship that is controversial and dismissed by more orthodox or traditional publishing venues.
Academic Publishing with Purpose
APF Press produces high-quality academic books for university and college communities in Canada. Our publications support research, teaching, and critical inquiry across diverse fields.
Voices That Deserve to Be Heard
We are committed to publishing authors whose perspectives are often under-represented in mainstream publishing, including scholars, activists, and community leaders.
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Courageous Ideas
APF Press proudly publishes scholarship that challenges conventional thinking. We support bold, critical perspectives that spark dialogue and encourage meaningful social change.
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About APF PRESS
APF was founded in 1994 by Professor C. Paraskevopoulos at York University, Department of Economics and created in order to promote scholarship and debate. Originally housed at York University, both APF and Athenian Policy Forum inspired critical and progressive thinking in Economics. Later, with the guidance of Professor Paraskevopoulos, APF broadened its focus to provide more inclusive interdisciplinary studies in Health, Law, Criminology, Psychology, Social Policy and also ventured into Humanities.
Today APF has no individual owner and this ownership is arms length. APF is run by a team of dedicated staff and a collective of social justice advocates, academics and service professionals.
We also venturing into fiction – a fairly broad range of genres, children’s and young adult fiction, self-help, memoirs, and spiritual books.
APF publishes on the basis of consensus, once blind peer assessments are considered. The Editorial Board recommends arms- length peers /scholars whose expertise are in the area of the manuscript to be assessed. Profits are used to defray administrative costs and support the publications of young / junior scholars whose work would otherwise not be published given their critical perspectives on controversial equity and social justice subjects. APF hopes that the books produced will, in some measure, contribute to eradicating injustice.
New Authors
APF welcomes new authors. Submissions that are to be considered are not limited to niche genres and address issues of social justice. On behalf of the editorial team, APF Press seeks to invite and encourage new scholars to consider submitting their monographs (theses, dissertations, manuscripts). Prospective authors should submit an abstract of not more than 500 words describing clearly and succinctly the content of the proposed publication.
Blog
APF has developed Team blogging to publish new articles by our authors on a regular interval. We offer our new authors or those thinking of publishing with APF to join us in this endeavour.
APF Press
- C. Paraskevopoulos, founder of APF Press.
- President of Athenian Policy Forum, Inc
- Editor, The Journal of Economic Asymmetries
- B.A. (Athens), Dip. Ec. (Color.), Ph.D. (Wayne State U)
- Professor; Professor Emeritus, Senior Scholar, York University
“We Athenians, in our own persons, take our decisions on policy or submit them to proper discussions: for we do not think that there is an incompatibility between words and deeds; the worst thing is to rush into action before the consequences have been properly debated”
- Thucydides II, 40 (Thucydides (460-400 B.C.) – Pericles’ Funeral Oration)
- As cited by APF Founder Professor Christos C. Paraskevopoulos
