Sono Nis Press

by George J. Dance Sono Nis Press is a Canadian publishing company based in British Columbia. The company has published more than 400 titles by more than 200 authors.

History
Sono Nis Press was founded in 1968 by J. Michael Yates, as a literary house specializing in poetry and fiction. The name was taken from a character in the first book published by the company, The Man in the Glass Octopus, Sono (Italian for “I am”) Nis (Anglo-Saxon for “is not”).

Richard Morriss of Morriss Printing bought Sono Nis in 1976, and moved it to Victoria, British Columbia. Morriss began also publishing creative non-fiction titles (some of which remain in print today). When he died in 1994, the company was taken over by his daughter Diane Morriss.

In 2002, Morris and her husband, graphic designer Jim Brennan, moved Sono Nis to Whitelaw, a small town in the British Columbia interior.