Red Deer Press is a Canadian book publisher located in Leaside, Ontario. It issues trade titles in children's fiction, literary fiction, poetry, drama, belles-lettres, and creative nonfiction focusing on the Canadian Prairies. Red Deer Press was founded in 1975 as a subsidiary of Red Deer College. Red Deer Press operates as a Fitzhenry & Whiteside subsidiary. Red Deer Press' books have received several literary awards over the years. For instance, Caroline Pignat's Greener Grass: The Famine Years won the 2009 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature.