A Book Affair : The Niagara Literay Arts Festival Book Fair

Join The Niagara Literary Arts Festival Saturday June 4th for "A Book Affair"

With guest presses and artists:

•Heronwood Enterprises
•The Book Band
•Alexandra Fic
•Kevin McCabe
•rob mclennan
•Catherine Owen
•Warren Dean Fulton
•Monty Reid
•Thee Hellbox Press
•Brock Creative Writers Group
•Bygones Publishing
•Cormorant and Dancing Cat Books
•wolsak and wynn
•Pedlar Press
•Proper Tales/Mansfeild Press
•Grey Borders Books
•Steve Fulton
•Precipice
•Greald Archambeau
•And More!•

10am-5pm at
The Niagara Falls Public Library
4848 Victoria Avenue, Niagara Falls

Small Press of Toronto Book Fair

The Small Press of Toronto Book Fair is happy to announce that the 2011 spring book fair will take place on June 19 at the stately Hart House on U of T campus!

The fair runs from 11 am to 5 pm so swing by and check out the excellent local and Canada-wide talent on display.

For more info on the fair and an up-to-date list of participants check out www.smallpressoftoronto.wordpress.com

the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2011;

[photo of jwcurry at his Room 302 Books table by Warren Fulton] happens June 25, 2011 (with pre-fair reading the night before, info tba) ; information here,

OCAD zine fair - call for tablers

The Ontario College of Art and Design University's zine library is holding a zine fair, March 3, and they're currently looking for tablers. Email ocadzinelibrary@gmail.com for more information.

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The Fredericton Small Press and Community Fair, Autumn 2010 edition, including author readings and a “Nuestro Espacio” display for Spanish-language publications, will happen on Saturday, 13 November, from 12 noon to 5 pm, at Gallery ConneXion, in the Chestnut Complex, 440 York St, Fredericton, NB. The event is organized by Gallery ConneXion and BS Poetry Society with support from Broken Jaw Press, Capítulo de Fredericton de la Academia Iberoamericana de Poesía, and revue ellipse mag. Admission is free.

Independent, small, and micro-press publishers of books, chapbooks, artist multiples, hand-bound books, broadsheets, postcards, zines, lit mags, crafters, social and literacy info groups and more will be in attendance. Exhibitors and authors include Anchorage Press (Jolicure, NB), BlackTop MotorCycle Gang, bookshandmade.com (Ottawa), Breaking the Silence–Fredericton Chapter, Broken Jaw Press, ChilZine Publications (Toronto), Craig Davidson, The Fiddlehead, Gallery ConneXion, La Leche League, Literary Translators Assoc. of Canada, Mansoureh Nasserchian, Qwerty magazine, Random Paper & Fabric, revue ellipse mag, Goose Lane Editions, and White Dwarf Editions (Montreal).

The fair will also feature La imagen es un Sendero/The Image is a Path/L’image est un chemin International Multicultural–Multilingual Poster Poem Exhibit and Poetry Reading (Nela Rio, founder & coordinator) organized in conjunction with the United Nations’ World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.

Gallery ConneXion, Fredericton’s artist-run centre, is wheelchair- and stroller-friendly. Gallery ConneXion gratefully acknowledges the continued support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of New Brunswick–Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport, the New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts, the City of Fredericton, and the New Brunswick Arts Board.


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Contact Joe Blades (506) 454-5127, joeblades@nb.aibn.com or Meredith Snider (506) 454-1433, connex@nbnet.nb.ca for more information.

Kingston Zine Fair October 30

The Second Kingston Zine Fair will be held at the Artel, 205 Sydenham St.,
Kingston, Ontario, on Saturday, October 30. The event will run from 11
a.m. to 5 p.m.

It's a small space usually used as an exhibition area by
the Artel artists' collective. There are still a few spaces open for anyone who
wants to join in. Full tables are $10, half-tables are $6.00. I'm always
looking for anyone with zines, chap-books, minicomics, or any other
micro-press or small-press publications. If you would like to introduce
your work to the city of Kingston, please contact Bill Gillespie at info (at) kingstonzines.com

Halifax Zine Fair : Sat Oct 23

HALIFAX ZINE FAIR
Saturday October 23rd 2010, noon-5pm
St. David's Church Hall, 1537 Brunswick Street, Halifax
Admission is Free!

Brought to you by the Anchor Archive Zine Library, Strange Adventures, Invisible Publishing, and the Halifax Pop Explosion.

Since 2001, this event has been an awesome annual showcase of all kinds of do-it-yourself projects and plans. This year has more vendors than ever, with folks coming from all over Canada and of course, lots of local people and projects.

Expect to see zines, small press books, comics, chapbooks, records, CDs, cassettes, magazines, posters, postcards, t-shirts, buttons, crafts, and other handmade bits and pieces. There will be a huge and eclectic variety of things for sale and trade, it’s not just a zine
fair or a craft fair or a record fair.

Also featuring:
CKDU DJs all day!
Invisible Author Readings!
Delicious and cheap burritos for sale!
Typewriter Silent Auction!