| Founder: | Malcolm Margolin |
| Country: | United States |
| Headquarters: | Berkeley, California |
| Publications: | books, magazines |
| Topics: | California, natural history, Native Americans |
Heyday is an independent nonprofit publisher based in Berkeley, California.
Heyday was founded by Malcolm Margolin in 1974 when he wrote, typeset, designed, and distributed The East Bay Out, a guide to the natural history of the hills and bay shore in and round Berkeley and Oakland, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area.[1] Heyday publishes around twenty books a year, as well as the quarterly magazine News from Native California.
In 2004, they merged with their nonprofit wing, the Clapperstick Institute, and became a full-fledged 501(c)(3) nonprofit enterprise.[2] In 2016, Margolin retired from Heyday, and Steve Wasserman, previously editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times Book Review and an editor-at-large at Yale University Press, became Margolin's successor as publisher and executive director.[3] Since 2020, the company has been co-led by Wasserman, publisher, and longtime staff member Gayle Wattawa, now general manager.[4]
The Berkeley Roundhouse, also known as the California Indian Publishing Program (CIPP), focuses on California Native Peoples. The Roundhouse hosts Native events and provides literature to under-served Native community members.[5] Since 1987, Heyday has published the quarterly magazine News from Native California, which is written from a Native People's perspective.[6]
Heyday is a frequent partner with other California cultural organizations. Heyday co-founded the California Historical Society Press with the California Historical Society, which together have published several books.[7] Heyday has produced books in conjunction with the California Council for the Humanities; the California State Library; the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley; the Oakland Museum of California; the Commonwealth Club of California; Santa Clara University; the California Academy of Sciences; the Japanese American National Museum; and the Yosemite Association (now Yosemite Conservancy).
Working with the California Legacy Project at Santa Clara University, Heyday produced the California Legacy series, which focused on California's literary and cultural heritage. In partnership with the Inlandia Institute at the Riverside Public Library, Heyday published books on the Inland Empire in Southern California.[8] Heyday has also published books on Yosemite National Park, and the Sierra Nevada, for the park.
Heyday Books partially funds the Sierra College Press, a university press associated with Sierra College, located in Rocklin, California. The presswhich was founded in 2002 and is one of the few in the United States operated by a community collegepublishes journals and books, most of which have a focus on the Sierra Nevada region.[9] [10] [11] [12]