with readings by:
Nathaniel G. Moore (Toronto)
Sean Moreland (Ottawa)
Kera Willis (Ottawa)
Stacey May Fowles (Toronto)
& Andrew Fauklker (Toronto)
lovingly hosted by rob mclennan
Friday, November 14, 2008
The Carleton Tavern (upstairs), 223 Armstrong
Street (at Parkdale)
doors 7pm, readings 7:30
info: rob mclennan at az421@freenet.carleton.ca
or call 613 239 0337
author bios:
Nathaniel G. Moore is the author of the humour
sports book Bowlbrawl (Conundrum, 2005) and the
poetry collection Let's Pretend We Never Met
(Pedlar Press, 2007) He recently co-edited the
critically acclaimed anthology Toronto Noir
(Akashic, 2008) and is currently working on two
fiction projects. He is an editor at both Danforth
Review and Broken Pencil Magazine. His blog of
literature and fashion and music gossip is
www.criticalcrushes.blogspot.com
Although he grew up grudgingly in Kingston,
Sean Moreland has been an Ottawa resident for the
past ten years. He is currently a doctoral
candidate and literature instructor at the
University of Ottawa, where his morbid preoccupations
are tolerated, if not outright encouraged. He won
the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2007, run by
Bywords, and recently had
his poetry chapbook as part of the same.
Kera Willis is a local writer, artist, and musician.
Her first book of
poetry, Tenebrismo, was published by Greyweathers
Press in 2007. As the
creative genius behind Blue Riot Gifts, she creates
and sells unique handmade treasures inspired by
recycled materials and the written word.
Stacey May Fowles' writing has appeared in various
online and print magazines, including Kiss Machine,
the Absinthe Literary Review, Fireweed, and subTERRAIN.
Her work has been widely anthologized in books including
Nobody Passes: Rejecting The Rules of Gender and
Conformity, First Person
Queer, Yes Means Yes, and I.V. Lounge Nights. Her
first novel, Be Good,
was published by Tightrope Books in 2007, and This
Magazine called it
"probably the most finely realized small press novel
to come out of Canada
in the last year." In fall 2008 she released an
illustrated novel titled
Fear of Fighting, and staged a theatrical adaptation
of the book with Nightwood Theatre. She currently lives
in Toronto and is the publisher of Shameless Magazine.
Andrew Faulkner is pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing
at the University of Guelph. He is a co-founder and
former editor-in-chief of Ottawa Arts Review and is also
on the selection committee for Bywords. He is the
author of the chapbook Useful Knots and How to Tie Them
(2008) and the co-author of Basement Tapes (2007), a
chapbook of poetry and homo-linguistic
translations, with Nicholas Lea and Marcus McCann. He
is a co-founder of The
Emergency Response Unit, a Toronto-based chapbook press.
& don't forget the ottawa small press
book fair the next day, at the Jack
Purcell Community Centre!
Saturday, November 1, 2008
THE FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OTTAWA SMALL PRESS BOOK FAIR; pre-fair reading;
Friday, September 26, 2008
The Fall Small Press Affair Mini-Fair (Nov 1, 2008)
Because many of you wanted a press fair with a boisterous, party atmosphere, the fall "Small Press Affair" is now going to be an evening mini-fair with entertainment celebrating the sparkling spirit of independent press.
A limited number of tables will be available at the Tranzac Club, so you can sell your wares, network and exchange ideas, while you enjoy readings, music and more.
The spring fair, which is slated for May 30, 2009 at the Miles Nadal JCC, will again be full-fledged daytime event with space for a larger number of tables and a separate room for readings. We’re hoping that one (or perhaps even both) of these two different events will suit the style and needs of your press.
A downloadable registration form will be on-line shortly. Due to limited table space, it’s important that you send in your form as soon as you can.
The Small Press Affair
When: November 1, 2008,
Where: The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick (south of Bloor)
Time: 6pm -11pm (set up time is 5 pm).
A limited number of tables will be available at the Tranzac Club, so you can sell your wares, network and exchange ideas, while you enjoy readings, music and more.
The spring fair, which is slated for May 30, 2009 at the Miles Nadal JCC, will again be full-fledged daytime event with space for a larger number of tables and a separate room for readings. We’re hoping that one (or perhaps even both) of these two different events will suit the style and needs of your press.
A downloadable registration form will be on-line shortly. Due to limited table space, it’s important that you send in your form as soon as you can.
The Small Press Affair
When: November 1, 2008,
Where: The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick (south of Bloor)
Time: 6pm -11pm (set up time is 5 pm).
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
the ottawa small press book fair, fall (14th anniversary) edition
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:
will be happening Saturday, November 15, 2008
in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).
contact rob at az421@freenet.carleton.ca to sign up for a table, etc.
"once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan & James Spyker invented a two-day event called the ottawa small press book fair, and held the first one at the National Archives of Canada..." Spyker moved to Toronto soon after the first one, but the fair continues, thanks in part to the help of generous volunteers, various writers and publishers, and the public for coming out to participate with alla their love and their dollars.
General info: the ottawa small press book fair
noon to 5pm (opens at 11am for exhibitors)
admission free to the public.
$20 for exhibitors (payable to rob mclennan, c/o 858 Somerset St W, main floor, Ottawa Ontario K1R 6R7).
full tables only.
for catalog, exhibitors should send (on paper, not email name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered & any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). also, due to the increased demand for table space, exhibitors are asked to confirm far earlier than usual. i.e. -- before, say, the day of the fair.
the fair usually contains exhibitors with poetry books, novels, cookbooks, posters, t-shirts, graphic novels, comic books, magazines, scraps of paper, gum-ball machines with poems, 2x4s with text, etc, including (at previous events) Bywords, Dusty Owl, Chaudiere Books, above/ground press, Room 302 Books, The Puritan, The Ottawa Arts Review, Buschek Books, The Grunge Papers, Broken Jaw Press, BookThug, Proper Tales Press, and others. happens twice a year, founded in 1994 by rob mclennan & James Spyker. now run by rob mclennan thru span-o.
questions, az421@freenet.carleton.ca
free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address. we will not be selling things for folk who cant make it, sorry. also, always looking for volunteers to poster, move tables, that sort of thing. let me know if anyone able to do anything. thanks. for more information, bother rob mclennan.
if you're able/willing to distribute posters/fliers for the fair, send me an email at az421@freenet.carleton.ca
the ottawa
small press
book fair
spring (fourteenth anniversary!) edition
will be happening Saturday, November 15, 2008
in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).
contact rob at az421@freenet.carleton.ca to sign up for a table, etc.
"once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan & James Spyker invented a two-day event called the ottawa small press book fair, and held the first one at the National Archives of Canada..." Spyker moved to Toronto soon after the first one, but the fair continues, thanks in part to the help of generous volunteers, various writers and publishers, and the public for coming out to participate with alla their love and their dollars.
General info: the ottawa small press book fair
noon to 5pm (opens at 11am for exhibitors)
admission free to the public.
$20 for exhibitors (payable to rob mclennan, c/o 858 Somerset St W, main floor, Ottawa Ontario K1R 6R7).
full tables only.
for catalog, exhibitors should send (on paper, not email name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered & any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). also, due to the increased demand for table space, exhibitors are asked to confirm far earlier than usual. i.e. -- before, say, the day of the fair.
the fair usually contains exhibitors with poetry books, novels, cookbooks, posters, t-shirts, graphic novels, comic books, magazines, scraps of paper, gum-ball machines with poems, 2x4s with text, etc, including (at previous events) Bywords, Dusty Owl, Chaudiere Books, above/ground press, Room 302 Books, The Puritan, The Ottawa Arts Review, Buschek Books, The Grunge Papers, Broken Jaw Press, BookThug, Proper Tales Press, and others. happens twice a year, founded in 1994 by rob mclennan & James Spyker. now run by rob mclennan thru span-o.
questions, az421@freenet.carleton.ca
free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address. we will not be selling things for folk who cant make it, sorry. also, always looking for volunteers to poster, move tables, that sort of thing. let me know if anyone able to do anything. thanks. for more information, bother rob mclennan.
if you're able/willing to distribute posters/fliers for the fair, send me an email at az421@freenet.carleton.ca
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
The Writers Festival Small Press Book Fair (Ottawa)
presented with the Small Press Action Network-Ottawa and Ottawa Independent Writers
Saturday, October 18, 2008, noon to 6:00pm
Library and Archives Canada Foyer
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON
a mini-book fair, on the opening day of this fall's ottawa international writers festival, & preparing for the regular fall edition of the ottawa fall press book fair in November (date TBA); table space extremely limited, & invite only;
http://www.writersfestival.org/
Saturday, October 18, 2008, noon to 6:00pm
Library and Archives Canada Foyer
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON
a mini-book fair, on the opening day of this fall's ottawa international writers festival, & preparing for the regular fall edition of the ottawa fall press book fair in November (date TBA); table space extremely limited, & invite only;
http://www.writersfestival.org/
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Peace Country’s First Annual Small Press Book Fair
Celebrating small and independent presses!
Register as a participating publisher or come and explore what the world of small, independent, micro and mini presses has to offer.
Featuring readings by renowned authors
Joe Blades (Fredericton, NB)
Jenna Butler (Edmonton, AB)
Vivian Demuth (New York)
and Karen Bass (Hythe, AB)
Location: Rabbit Hole Bookstore, Grande Prairie, Alberta
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008
Time: 1 PM to 5 PM
Display Space: $10
Contact: Harrison or Henry
c/o Rabbit Hole Bookstore
10020 100 Avenue, Grande Prairie, AB T8V 0V3
Phone: 780-539-7999
Email: rabbithole@telus.net
Register as a participating publisher or come and explore what the world of small, independent, micro and mini presses has to offer.
Featuring readings by renowned authors
Joe Blades (Fredericton, NB)
Jenna Butler (Edmonton, AB)
Vivian Demuth (New York)
and Karen Bass (Hythe, AB)
Location: Rabbit Hole Bookstore, Grande Prairie, Alberta
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008
Time: 1 PM to 5 PM
Display Space: $10
Contact: Harrison or Henry
c/o Rabbit Hole Bookstore
10020 100 Avenue, Grande Prairie, AB T8V 0V3
Phone: 780-539-7999
Email: rabbithole@telus.net
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Victoria Anachist Book Fair mld August
Anyone have info on the Victoria Anachist Book Fair in mid August?
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Fredericton Small Press Fair: 12 July 2008
http://www.joeblades.com/frederictonsmallpressfair.htm12 July, Saturday, 12-5 pm
General public admission is free.
This location is not yet wheelchair accessible.
The summer small press fair has been co-ordinated to coincide with the revived Maritime Writers' Workshop, 6–12 July. For MWW info, contact: UNB College of Extended Learning, ph (506) 452-6360, ahowells@unb.ca MWW registration: ph (506) 453-4646.
Location: Charlotte Street Arts Centre Auditorium, 732 Charlotte St, Fredericton, NB:
Google map.
Organizers: revue ellipse mag and Maritimes Arts Projects Productions.
Exhibitor fees (including HST): tables $15 (full tables only). Contact (506) 454-5127, joeblades@nb.aibn.com to reserve tables and readings. Payable, preferably in advance, to: Maritimes Arts Projects Productions, Box 596 Stn A, Fredericton NB E3B 5A6.
Free things (info, publication, calls for submissions, etc) can be mailed to the same address for distribution @ the fair. The fair itself will not undertake to sell anything for folks who can't make it, but if you can arrange for someone to represent you @ the fair that would be great!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Calgary Blow-Out! #4 Small Press Fair
Printers, Publishers, Makers, Movers and Shakers,
As a part of this year's Blow-Out! festival, we are going to have a small press fair. This fair gives independent and small presses in Calgary ( and beyond) an opportunity to show off and sell their wares. You are welcome to bring your own table, or, if you'd prefer, tables will rent for $10 a piece. You are welcome to present whatever material you have been making: leaflets, magazines, publications, cd's, etc. In addition to the small press fair, we will be exhibiting and selling visual art (for details, contact Travis Murphy at travismurphy99@hotmail.com). The Blow-Out! small press fair will take place Saturday, August 2nd from 11am-4pm.
If you are interested, please let me know by June 25th. contact me via email at nzwalschots@gmail.com
All the best,
Natalie Zina Walschots
As a part of this year's Blow-Out! festival, we are going to have a small press fair. This fair gives independent and small presses in Calgary ( and beyond) an opportunity to show off and sell their wares. You are welcome to bring your own table, or, if you'd prefer, tables will rent for $10 a piece. You are welcome to present whatever material you have been making: leaflets, magazines, publications, cd's, etc. In addition to the small press fair, we will be exhibiting and selling visual art (for details, contact Travis Murphy at travismurphy99@hotmail.com). The Blow-Out! small press fair will take place Saturday, August 2nd from 11am-4pm.
If you are interested, please let me know by June 25th. contact me via email at nzwalschots@gmail.com
All the best,
Natalie Zina Walschots
Friday, May 16, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Fredericton Small Press Fair: Summer 2008
Fredericton Small Press Fair: Summer 2008
12 July, Saturday, 12-5 pm
General public admission is free.
This location is not yet wheelchair accessible.
Organizers: revue ellipse mag and Maritimes Arts Projects Productions.
Exhibitor fees (including HST): tables $15 (full tables only), author readings $5 (sound system rental). Contact (506) 454-5127, joeblades@nb.aibn.com to reserve tables and readings. Payable, preferably in advance, to: Maritimes Arts Projects Productions, Box 596 Stn A, Fredericton NB E3B 5A6.
Free things (info, publication, calls for submissions, etc) can be mailed to the same address for distribution @ the fair. The fair itself will not undertake to sell anything for folks who can't make it, but if you can arrange for someone to represent you @ the fair that would be great!
15 March 2008poster
JustFred.ca's 2008 SPRING small press fair photo album
2008 AUTUMN: Our autumn fair will be co-ordinated in association with the 2008 Side by Side Festival of Literary Translation / Côte à Côte festival de traduction littéraire.
12 July, Saturday, 12-5 pm
General public admission is free.
This location is not yet wheelchair accessible.
This fair has been co-ordinated to coincide with the revived Maritime Writers' Workshop, 6–12 July. For MWW info, contact: UNB College of Extended Learning, ph (506) 452-6360, ahowells@unb.ca MWW registration: ph (506) 453-4646.Location: Charlotte Street Arts Centre Auditorium, 732 Charlotte St, Google map.
Organizers: revue ellipse mag and Maritimes Arts Projects Productions.
Exhibitor fees (including HST): tables $15 (full tables only), author readings $5 (sound system rental). Contact (506) 454-5127, joeblades@nb.aibn.com to reserve tables and readings. Payable, preferably in advance, to: Maritimes Arts Projects Productions, Box 596 Stn A, Fredericton NB E3B 5A6.
Free things (info, publication, calls for submissions, etc) can be mailed to the same address for distribution @ the fair. The fair itself will not undertake to sell anything for folks who can't make it, but if you can arrange for someone to represent you @ the fair that would be great!
15 March 2008poster
JustFred.ca's 2008 SPRING small press fair photo album
2008 AUTUMN: Our autumn fair will be co-ordinated in association with the 2008 Side by Side Festival of Literary Translation / Côte à Côte festival de traduction littéraire.
Friday, April 11, 2008
the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2008 edition
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:
in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).
contact rob at az421@freenet.carleton.ca to sign up for a table, etc.
General info: the ottawa small press book fair noon to 5pm (opens at 11am for exhibitors)
admission free to the public.
$20 for exhibitors (payable to rob mclennan, c/o 858 Somerset St W, main floor, Ottawa Ontario K1R 6R7). full tables only. for catalog, exhibitors should send (on paper, not email name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered & any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). also, due to the increased demand for table space, exhibitors are asked to confirm far earlier than usual. i.e. -- before, say, the day of the fair.
the fair usually contains exhibitors with poetry books, novels, cookbooks, posters, t-shirts, graphic novels, comic books, magazines, scraps of paper, gum-ball machines with poems, 2x4s with text, etc, including (at previous events) Bywords, Dusty Owl, Chaudiere Books, above/ground press, Room 302 Books, The Puritan, The Ottawa Arts Review, Buschek Books, The Grunge Papers, Broken Jaw Press, BookThug, Proper Tales Press, and others. happens twice a year, founded in 1994 by rob mclennan & James Spyker. now run by rob mclennan thru span-o. questions, az421@freenet.carleton.ca
free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address. we will not be selling things for folk who cant make it, sorry. also, always looking for volunteers to poster, move tables, that sort of thing. let me know if anyone able to do anything. thanks. for more information, bother rob mclennan.
if you're able/willing to distribute posters/fliers for the fair, contact Grant Wilkins at grungepapers@sympatico.ca
NEW! info on the pre-book fair reading the night before!
the ottawawill be happening Saturday, June 21, 2007
small press
book fair
spring edition
in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).
contact rob at az421@freenet.carleton.ca to sign up for a table, etc.
General info: the ottawa small press book fair noon to 5pm (opens at 11am for exhibitors)
admission free to the public.
$20 for exhibitors (payable to rob mclennan, c/o 858 Somerset St W, main floor, Ottawa Ontario K1R 6R7). full tables only. for catalog, exhibitors should send (on paper, not email name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered & any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). also, due to the increased demand for table space, exhibitors are asked to confirm far earlier than usual. i.e. -- before, say, the day of the fair.
the fair usually contains exhibitors with poetry books, novels, cookbooks, posters, t-shirts, graphic novels, comic books, magazines, scraps of paper, gum-ball machines with poems, 2x4s with text, etc, including (at previous events) Bywords, Dusty Owl, Chaudiere Books, above/ground press, Room 302 Books, The Puritan, The Ottawa Arts Review, Buschek Books, The Grunge Papers, Broken Jaw Press, BookThug, Proper Tales Press, and others. happens twice a year, founded in 1994 by rob mclennan & James Spyker. now run by rob mclennan thru span-o. questions, az421@freenet.carleton.ca
free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address. we will not be selling things for folk who cant make it, sorry. also, always looking for volunteers to poster, move tables, that sort of thing. let me know if anyone able to do anything. thanks. for more information, bother rob mclennan.
if you're able/willing to distribute posters/fliers for the fair, contact Grant Wilkins at grungepapers@sympatico.ca
NEW! info on the pre-book fair reading the night before!
Saturday, February 23, 2008
(forward) Fredericton's Small Press Fair (new fair!)
Small Press Fair
March 15 from 12 to 5pm
Any interested artists, writers, or publishers can purchase a table for the day for $10 to sell and promote their product. There are still a few tables left to be booked.
Submissions can include: artist multiples, artist books, comics, zines, books/livres, lit mags, chapbooks, indie publishers, micro and small presses.
Gallery Connexion's membership will have access to sell one or two items on a shared membership table free of charge. Contact the gallery to confirm your participation and the items you wish to include. Your participation may be required to work the table for an hour or so.
So far we have The Fiddlehead, AB Publishing, and Broken Jaw Press participating from Fredericton, and EyeLevel Gallery, Anchor Archives, and S.A.G.S.R.I from Halifax.
For more information, or to register for a table, call Meredith at (506) 454-1433 or email at connex@nbnet.nb.ca
The Small Press Fair is taking place in conjunction with the 8th International Multicultural-Multilingual Poetry Reading and Poster Poem Exhibition, organized by Nela Rio. Poems in a variety of languages will be displayed around the gallery, and readings will take place following the Small Press Fair on March 15 from 5 to 8pm in the Rick Burns Gallery. Admission is free.
Gallery Connexion is located at 453 Queen Street, corner of York Street and Queen Street, in the back of the Justice Building (look for the bright green door- off the York Street Parking Lot).
Regular hours are Tuesday to Friday, 12 to 5pm.
506.454.1433
connex@nbnet.nb.ca
http://www.galleryconnexion.ca/
March 15 from 12 to 5pm
Any interested artists, writers, or publishers can purchase a table for the day for $10 to sell and promote their product. There are still a few tables left to be booked.
Submissions can include: artist multiples, artist books, comics, zines, books/livres, lit mags, chapbooks, indie publishers, micro and small presses.
Gallery Connexion's membership will have access to sell one or two items on a shared membership table free of charge. Contact the gallery to confirm your participation and the items you wish to include. Your participation may be required to work the table for an hour or so.
So far we have The Fiddlehead, AB Publishing, and Broken Jaw Press participating from Fredericton, and EyeLevel Gallery, Anchor Archives, and S.A.G.S.R.I from Halifax.
For more information, or to register for a table, call Meredith at (506) 454-1433 or email at connex@nbnet.nb.ca
The Small Press Fair is taking place in conjunction with the 8th International Multicultural-Multilingual Poetry Reading and Poster Poem Exhibition, organized by Nela Rio. Poems in a variety of languages will be displayed around the gallery, and readings will take place following the Small Press Fair on March 15 from 5 to 8pm in the Rick Burns Gallery. Admission is free.
Gallery Connexion is located at 453 Queen Street, corner of York Street and Queen Street, in the back of the Justice Building (look for the bright green door- off the York Street Parking Lot).
Regular hours are Tuesday to Friday, 12 to 5pm.
506.454.1433
connex@nbnet.nb.ca
http://www.galleryconnexion.ca/