tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13106557209283891302024-02-20T00:57:30.795-05:00(canadian) small press book fairsa blog for small press book fairs throughout canadarob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-46068423765817690762024-01-22T12:03:00.001-05:002024-01-22T12:07:24.050-05:00the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2024 edition: June 22, 2024<p><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:<br /></span></b></p><p></p><span style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxX0RdBlNNjIzhrnSB2YpMImpyjLfvgVyPZi1CvknCwY3mrj74k2jYPnjotSK74mB1YPRsOFRri-OQGrfIQkr4-9BQNs4u8jFPdagrEKpEJb3kA9hqtBQYM9oym06ue7YyHolHYj4SNdUI2DY682hqCyIlMAFTIIxO_VX068pHpdHfL1cUIGAMs-3vkpGe/s400/doctorwho-castrovalva17.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="400" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxX0RdBlNNjIzhrnSB2YpMImpyjLfvgVyPZi1CvknCwY3mrj74k2jYPnjotSK74mB1YPRsOFRri-OQGrfIQkr4-9BQNs4u8jFPdagrEKpEJb3kA9hqtBQYM9oym06ue7YyHolHYj4SNdUI2DY682hqCyIlMAFTIIxO_VX068pHpdHfL1cUIGAMs-3vkpGe/w395-h253/doctorwho-castrovalva17.jpg" width="395" /></a></div><b> the ottawa<br /> small press<br /> book fair<br /><br />spring 2024<br />will be held on Saturday, June 22, 2024 at Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Station Road (NOTE NEW LOCATION).</b><br /><br />“once
upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.<br /><br /><b>General info:<br />the ottawa small press book fair<br />noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br /><br />admission free to the public.</b><br /><b>$25 for exhibitors, full tables<br />$12.50 for half-tables</b><br />(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal options also available<br /><br /><b>Note: for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables.<br />To be included in the exhibitor catalog:</b> please
include name of press, address, email, web address, contact person,
type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions
are being considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming
ottawa-area events (if any). Be sure to send by June 3rd if you would
like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.<br /><br /><b>And hopefully we can still do the pre-fair reading as well! details TBA<br /><br />BE AWARE: </b>given
that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say
no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair can’t (unfortunately)
fit everyone who wishes to participate. The fair is roughly first-come,
first-served, although preference will be given to small publishers
over self-published authors (being a “small press fair,” after all).<br /><br />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
regular appearances by publishers including <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/" id="LPlnk212448" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">above/ground press</a>, <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="http://bywords.ca/" id="LPlnk854390" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Bywords.ca</i></a>, Room 302 Books, <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://textualis.wordpress.com/" id="LPlnk780594" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Textualis Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.arcpoetry.ca/" id="LPlnk83832" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Arc Poetry Magazine</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.canthius.com/" id="LPlnk32378" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Canthius</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://ottawaartsreview.com/" id="LPlnk252859" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>The Ottawa Arts Review</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.grungepapers.com/" id="LPlnk571266" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Grunge Papers</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://apt9press.ca/" id="LPlnk854560" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Apt. 9</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.desertpetspress.com/" id="LPlnk685207" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Desert Pets Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://inwordsmagazine.wordpress.com/" id="LPlnk631435" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In/Words magazine & press</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://knifeforkbook.com/" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;">knife | fork | book</a>, Ottawa Press Gang,<span> </span><a href="https://fortypropertales.blogspot.com/" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;">Proper Tales Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk516901" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">40-Watt Spotlight</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.puddlesofskypress.com/" id="LPlnk474847" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Puddles of Sky Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://invisiblepublishing.com/" id="LPlnk312607" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Invisible Publishing</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="https://marilynirwin.wordpress.com/shreeking-violet/" id="LPlnk53314" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">shreeking violet press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca/" id="LPlnk381684" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Touch the Donkey</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.pearlpirie.com/phafours" id="LPlnk520789" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Phafours Press</a>, etc etc etc.<br /><br />The
ottawa small press fair is held twice a year (apart from these pandemic
silences), and was founded in 1994 by rob mclennan and James Spyker.
Organized/hosted since by rob mclennan.<br /><br />Come on by and see some of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!<br /><b><br />Free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address.</b><span> </span>Unfortunately, we are unable to sell things for publishers who aren’t able to make the event.<br /><br />Also:
please let me know if you are able/willing to poster, move tables or
distribute fliers for the event. The more people we all tell, the better
the fair!<br /><br />Contact: rob mclennan at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com for questions, or to sign up for a table<br /></span></span></span><span style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />Oh yes, and the fall fair will be held at the same location on Saturday, November 16, 2024, if you need to know that, also.<br /></b></span></span></span><br /><br />rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-91912492868687237172023-08-17T14:56:00.001-04:002024-01-22T11:59:28.375-05:00the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2023 (29th anniversary!) edition: November 18, 2023<p><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:<br /><br /></b></p><p></p><span style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBJRutZC7myK0aMsVb-QTlFXRSbVHcj_ovPjG59MyQvMa40eOut_UU9KygEpZjhAUHPYGcLfZaOm0GTaUU7TrPo48-V3SgYtN1M93D7qFgvG77ZBjnmRKjXnOB3IfIgjmrIFkk2ivf3Ckeb6CWCdBB5Jgu9hkhYoiFNWOSJG1yO_oP__x2fXLFgxCJZq09/s1240/Harry-Belafonte001-1240x977.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="977" data-original-width="1240" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBJRutZC7myK0aMsVb-QTlFXRSbVHcj_ovPjG59MyQvMa40eOut_UU9KygEpZjhAUHPYGcLfZaOm0GTaUU7TrPo48-V3SgYtN1M93D7qFgvG77ZBjnmRKjXnOB3IfIgjmrIFkk2ivf3Ckeb6CWCdBB5Jgu9hkhYoiFNWOSJG1yO_oP__x2fXLFgxCJZq09/w293-h231/Harry-Belafonte001-1240x977.jpg" width="293" /></a></div> the ottawa<br /> small press<br /> book fair<br /><br />autumn 2023<br />will be held on Saturday, November 18, 2023 at Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Station Road (NOTE NEW LOCATION).</b><br /><br />“once
upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.<br /><br /><b>General info:<br />the ottawa small press book fair<br />noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br /><br />admission free to the public.</b><br /><b>$25 for exhibitors, full tables<br />$12.50 for half-tables</b><br />(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal options also available<br /><br /><b>Note: for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables.<br />To be included in the exhibitor catalog:</b> please
include name of press, address, email, web address, contact person,
type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions
are being considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming
ottawa-area events (if any). Be sure to send by November 9th if you would
like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.<br /><br /><b>And hopefully we can still do the pre-fair reading as well! details TBA<br /><br />BE AWARE: </b>given
that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say
no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair can’t (unfortunately)
fit everyone who wishes to participate. The fair is roughly first-come,
first-served, although preference will be given to small publishers
over self-published authors (being a “small press fair,” after all).<br /><br />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
regular appearances by publishers including <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/" id="LPlnk212448" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">above/ground press</a>, <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="http://bywords.ca/" id="LPlnk854390" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Bywords.ca</i></a>, Room 302 Books, <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://textualis.wordpress.com/" id="LPlnk780594" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Textualis Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.arcpoetry.ca/" id="LPlnk83832" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Arc Poetry Magazine</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.canthius.com/" id="LPlnk32378" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Canthius</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://ottawaartsreview.com/" id="LPlnk252859" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>The Ottawa Arts Review</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.grungepapers.com/" id="LPlnk571266" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Grunge Papers</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://apt9press.ca/" id="LPlnk854560" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Apt. 9</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.desertpetspress.com/" id="LPlnk685207" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Desert Pets Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://inwordsmagazine.wordpress.com/" id="LPlnk631435" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In/Words magazine & press</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://knifeforkbook.com/" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;">knife | fork | book</a>, Ottawa Press Gang,<span> </span><a href="https://fortypropertales.blogspot.com/" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;">Proper Tales Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk516901" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">40-Watt Spotlight</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.puddlesofskypress.com/" id="LPlnk474847" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Puddles of Sky Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://invisiblepublishing.com/" id="LPlnk312607" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Invisible Publishing</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="https://marilynirwin.wordpress.com/shreeking-violet/" id="LPlnk53314" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">shreeking violet press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca/" id="LPlnk381684" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Touch the Donkey</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.pearlpirie.com/phafours" id="LPlnk520789" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Phafours Press</a>, etc etc etc.<br /><br />The
ottawa small press fair is held twice a year (apart from these pandemic
silences), and was founded in 1994 by rob mclennan and James Spyker.
Organized/hosted since by rob mclennan.<br /><br />Come on by and see some of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!<br /><b><br />Free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address.</b><span> </span>Unfortunately, we are unable to sell things for publishers who aren’t able to make the event.<br /><br />Also:
please let me know if you are able/willing to poster, move tables or
distribute fliers for the event. The more people we all tell, the better
the fair!<br /><br />Contact: rob mclennan at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com for questions, or to sign up for a table<br /></span></span></span>rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-15169540127884670132023-01-25T13:46:00.000-05:002023-01-25T13:46:19.257-05:00the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2023 edition: June 17, 2023<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:<br /><br /></b><p></p><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0Yvulim18qtVLut0yWxVSHY3oGaLWsnpIUbRdCuRkDT_AZEUcq47TE8zaHYEwsZEH-7Bgm1pxU_BnjzhU7ettX0KVf1UV4pNskphlsi4dz9Q9J8JGlLCDNsd2iWOV2RYi7p0ZAodFM5stMZH6CnOzjK9BsPb17cRyLrjf9BtHphP925Vz6hGPjOKfg/s249/alsjdlkajdf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="202" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0Yvulim18qtVLut0yWxVSHY3oGaLWsnpIUbRdCuRkDT_AZEUcq47TE8zaHYEwsZEH-7Bgm1pxU_BnjzhU7ettX0KVf1UV4pNskphlsi4dz9Q9J8JGlLCDNsd2iWOV2RYi7p0ZAodFM5stMZH6CnOzjK9BsPb17cRyLrjf9BtHphP925Vz6hGPjOKfg/w261-h321/alsjdlkajdf.jpg" width="261" /></a></b><span style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> the ottawa<br /> small press<br /> book fair<br /><br />spring 2023<br />will be held on Saturday, June 17, 2023 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</b><br /><br />“once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.<br /><br /><b>General info:<br />the ottawa small press book fair<br />noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br /><br />admission free to the public.</b><br /><b>$25 for exhibitors, full tables<br />$12.50 for half-tables</b><br />(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal options also available<br /><br /><b>Note: for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables.<br />To be included in the exhibitor catalog:</b> please include name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). Be sure to send by June 7th if you would like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.<br /><br /><b>And hopefully we can still do the pre-fair reading as well! details TBA<br /><br />BE AWARE: </b>given that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair can’t (unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to participate. The fair is roughly first-come, first-served, although preference will be given to small publishers over self-published authors (being a “small press fair,” after all).<br /><br />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 regular appearances by publishers including <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/" id="LPlnk212448" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">above/ground press</a>, <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="http://bywords.ca/" id="LPlnk854390" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Bywords.ca</i></a>, Room 302 Books, <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://textualis.wordpress.com/" id="LPlnk780594" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Textualis Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.arcpoetry.ca/" id="LPlnk83832" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Arc Poetry Magazine</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.canthius.com/" id="LPlnk32378" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Canthius</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://ottawaartsreview.com/" id="LPlnk252859" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>The Ottawa Arts Review</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.grungepapers.com/" id="LPlnk571266" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Grunge Papers</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://apt9press.ca/" id="LPlnk854560" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Apt. 9</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.desertpetspress.com/" id="LPlnk685207" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Desert Pets Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://inwordsmagazine.wordpress.com/" id="LPlnk631435" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In/Words magazine & press</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://knifeforkbook.com/" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;">knife | fork | book</a>, Ottawa Press Gang,<span> </span><a href="https://fortypropertales.blogspot.com/" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;">Proper Tales Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk516901" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">40-Watt Spotlight</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.puddlesofskypress.com/" id="LPlnk474847" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Puddles of Sky Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://invisiblepublishing.com/" id="LPlnk312607" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Invisible Publishing</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="https://marilynirwin.wordpress.com/shreeking-violet/" id="LPlnk53314" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">shreeking violet press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca/" id="LPlnk381684" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Touch the Donkey</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.pearlpirie.com/phafours" id="LPlnk520789" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Phafours Press</a>, etc etc etc.<br /><br />The ottawa small press fair is held twice a year (apart from these pandemic silences), and was founded in 1994 by rob mclennan and James Spyker. Organized/hosted since by rob mclennan.<br /><br />Come on by and see some of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!<br /><b><br />Free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address.</b><span> </span>Unfortunately, we are unable to sell things for publishers who aren’t able to make the event.<br /><br />Also: please let me know if you are able/willing to poster, move tables or distribute fliers for the event. The more people we all tell, the better the fair!<br /><br />Contact: rob mclennan at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com for questions, or to sign up for a table<br /><br /></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-44016118513133717552022-07-25T11:00:00.000-04:002022-07-25T12:03:15.940-04:00 the return of the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2022 edition: November 12, 2022<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtgViuGijeUCN6uY1uLvWJrKNdpv8cfsPAu_K-Q4Gn4jGmtH3ok3P7UdMlplB7VqgYoYcIW5sG2vD8DIEvi-9OeFMmwT24LGNlEMNW-Nc7HkesPdqygBk6R9Ozl0SzOxaNNUjqfZeemOkJq626EaspJ2bXM7-6KnyQhEfsMK-vFhJMEULUMrtcZ-KQ7w/s687/FYN6Ls1XkAQdTeb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="687" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtgViuGijeUCN6uY1uLvWJrKNdpv8cfsPAu_K-Q4Gn4jGmtH3ok3P7UdMlplB7VqgYoYcIW5sG2vD8DIEvi-9OeFMmwT24LGNlEMNW-Nc7HkesPdqygBk6R9Ozl0SzOxaNNUjqfZeemOkJq626EaspJ2bXM7-6KnyQhEfsMK-vFhJMEULUMrtcZ-KQ7w/w409-h244/FYN6Ls1XkAQdTeb.jpg" width="409" /></a></div>span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" id="x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /> the ottawa<br /> small press<br /> book fair<br /><br />autumn 2022<br />will be held on Saturday, November 12, 2022 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</b><br /><br />“once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.<br /><br /><b>General info:<br />the ottawa small press book fair<br />noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br /><br />admission free to the public.</b><br /><b>$25 for exhibitors, full tables<br />$12.50 for half-tables</b><br />(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal options also available<br /><br /><b>Note: for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables.<br />To be included in the exhibitor catalog:</b> please include name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). Be sure to send by November 1st if you would like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.<br /><br /><b>And hopefully we can still to the pre-fair reading as well! details TBA<br /><br />BE AWARE: </b>given that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair can’t (unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to participate. The fair is roughly first-come, first-served, although preference will be given to small publishers over self-published authors (being a “small press fair,” after all).<br /><br />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 regular appearances by publishers including <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/" id="LPlnk212448" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">above/ground press</a>, <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="http://bywords.ca/" id="LPlnk854390" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Bywords.ca</i></a>, Room 302 Books, <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://textualis.wordpress.com/" id="LPlnk780594" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Textualis Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.arcpoetry.ca/" id="LPlnk83832" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Arc Poetry Magazine</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.canthius.com/" id="LPlnk32378" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Canthius</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://ottawaartsreview.com/" id="LPlnk252859" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>The Ottawa Arts Review</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.grungepapers.com/" id="LPlnk571266" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Grunge Papers</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://apt9press.ca/" id="LPlnk854560" style="border: 0px none; 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font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Invisible Publishing</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="https://marilynirwin.wordpress.com/shreeking-violet/" id="LPlnk53314" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">shreeking violet press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca/" id="LPlnk381684" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Touch the Donkey</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.pearlpirie.com/phafours" id="LPlnk520789" style="border: 0px none; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Phafours Press</a>, etc etc etc.<br /><br />The ottawa small press fair is held twice a year (apart from these pandemic silences), and was founded in 1994 by rob mclennan and James Spyker. Organized/hosted since by rob mclennan.<br /><br />Come on by and see some of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!<br /><b><br />Free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address.</b> Unfortunately, we are unable to sell things for publishers who aren’t able to make the event.<br /><br />Also: please let me know if you are able/willing to poster, move tables or distribute fliers for the event. The more people we all tell, the better the fair!<br /><br />Contact: rob mclennan at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com for questions, or to sign up for a table<br /></span><br /></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p></p>rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-33749050908994634902020-01-17T14:00:00.000-05:002020-01-17T14:02:40.570-05:00the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2020 edition: June 27, 2020,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /> the ottawa<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /> small press<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /> book fair<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />spring 2020<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />will be held on Saturday, June 27, 2020 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</b><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />“once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">General info:<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />the ottawa small press book fair<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />admission free to the public.</b><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">$25 for exhibitors, full tables<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />$12.50 for half-tables</b><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal options also available<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Note: for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />To be included in the exhibitor catalog:</b> please include name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). Be sure to send by June 15th if you would like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">And don’t forget the pre-fair reading usually held the night before, at The Carleton Tavern! (readers tba)<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />BE AWARE: </b>given that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair can’t (unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to participate. The fair is roughly first-come, first-served, although preference will be given to small publishers over self-published authors (being a “small press fair,” after all).<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />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 regular appearances by publishers including <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/" id="LPlnk212448" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">above/ground press</a>, <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="http://bywords.ca/" id="LPlnk854390" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Bywords.ca</i></a>, Room 302 Books, <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://textualis.wordpress.com/" id="LPlnk780594" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Textualis Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.arcpoetry.ca/" id="LPlnk83832" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Arc Poetry Magazine</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.canthius.com/" id="LPlnk32378" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Canthius</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://ottawaartsreview.com/" id="LPlnk252859" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">The Ottawa Arts Review</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.grungepapers.com/" id="LPlnk571266" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Grunge Papers</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://apt9press.ca/" id="LPlnk854560" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Apt. 9</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.desertpetspress.com/" id="LPlnk685207" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Desert Pets Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://inwordsmagazine.wordpress.com/" id="LPlnk631435" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In/Words magazine & press</a>, <a href="https://knifeforkbook.com/">knife | fork | book</a>, Ottawa Press Gang, <a href="https://fortypropertales.blogspot.com/">Proper Tales Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="LPlnk516901" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">40-Watt Spotlight</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.puddlesofskypress.com/" id="LPlnk474847" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Puddles of Sky Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://invisiblepublishing.com/" id="LPlnk312607" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Invisible Publishing</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="https://marilynirwin.wordpress.com/shreeking-violet/" id="LPlnk53314" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">shreeking violet press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca/" id="LPlnk381684" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Touch the Donkey</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.pearlpirie.com/phafours" id="LPlnk520789" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Phafours Press</a>, etc etc etc.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />The ottawa small press fair is held twice a year, and was founded in 1994 by rob mclennan and James Spyker. Organized/hosted since by rob mclennan.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Come on by and see some of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address.</b>Unfortunately, we are unable to sell things for publishers who aren’t able to make the event.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Also: please let me know if you are able/willing to poster, move tables or distribute fliers for the event. The more people we all tell, the better the fair!<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Contact: rob mclennan at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com for questions, or to sign up for a table</span></span></div>
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the ottawa<br />
small press<br />
book fair<br />
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AUTUMN 2019 / TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION<br />
will be held on Saturday, November 23, 2019 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell
Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</span></b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br />
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“once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.<br />
<br />
<b>General info:<br />
the ottawa small press book fair<br />
noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br />
<br />
admission free to the public.</b><br />
<b>$25 for exhibitors, full tables<br />
$12.50 for half-tables</b><br />
(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal
options also available<br />
<br />
<b>To be included in the exhibitor catalog:</b> please include name of
press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list
of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered and any other
pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). Be sure to send
by November 10th if you would like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.<br />
<br />
<b>And don’t forget the pre-fair reading usually held the night before, at The
Carleton Tavern! (readers tba)<br />
<br />
BE AWARE: </b>given that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity
(forcing me to say no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair can’t
(unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to participate. The fair is roughly
first-come, first-served, although preference will be given to small publishers
over self-published authors (being a “small press fair,” after all).<br />
<br />
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 regular
appearances by publishers including <a href="http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">above/ground press</span></a>, <a href="http://bywords.ca/"><i><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bywords.ca</span></i></a>, Room 302 Books, <a href="https://textualis.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Textualis Press</span></a>, <a href="http://www.arcpoetry.ca/"><i><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Arc Poetry Magazine</span></i></a>, <a href="http://www.canthius.com/"><i><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Canthius</span></i></a>, <a href="http://ottawaartsreview.com/"><i><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Ottawa Arts Review</span></i></a>, The Grunge Papers, <a href="http://apt9press.ca/"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Apt. 9</span></a>, <a href="http://www.desertpetspress.com/"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Desert Pets Press</span></a>, <a href="http://inwordsmagazine.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">In/Words magazine & press</span></a>,
Ottawa Press Gang, 40-Watt Spotlight, <a href="http://www.puddlesofskypress.com/"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Puddles of Sky
Press</span></a>, <a href="http://invisiblepublishing.com/"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Invisible
Publishing</span></a>, <a href="https://marilynirwin.wordpress.com/shreeking-violet/"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">shreeking violet
press</span></a>, <a href="http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca/"><i><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Touch the
Donkey</span></i></a>, <a href="http://www.pearlpirie.com/phafours"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Phafours Press</span></a>,
etc etc etc.<br />
<br />
The ottawa small press fair is held twice a year, and was founded in 1994 by
rob mclennan and James Spyker. Organized/hosted since by rob mclennan.<br />
<br />
Come on by and see some of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!<br />
<b><br />
Free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address.</b>Unfortunately,
we are unable to sell things for publishers who aren’t able to make the event.<br />
<br />
Also: please let me know if you are able/willing to poster, move tables or
distribute fliers for the event. The more people we all tell, the better the
fair!<br />
<br />
Contact: rob mclennan at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com for questions, or to
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<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /> the ottawa<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /> small press<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /> book fair<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />spring 2019<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />will be held on Saturday, June 22, 2019 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</b><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />“once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">General info:<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />the ottawa small press book fair<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />admission free to the public.</b><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">$25 for exhibitors, full tables<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />$12.50 for half-tables</b><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal options also available<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Note: for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />To be included in the exhibitor catalog:</b> please include name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). Be sure to send by June 15th if you would like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">And don’t forget the pre-fair reading usually held the night before, at The Carleton Tavern! (readers tba)<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />BE AWARE: </b>given that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair can’t (unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to participate. The fair is roughly first-come, first-served, although preference will be given to small publishers over self-published authors (being a “small press fair,” after all).<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />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 regular appearances by publishers including <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/" id="LPlnk212448" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">above/ground press</a>, <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="http://bywords.ca/" id="LPlnk854390" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Bywords.ca</i></a>, Room 302 Books, <a class="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://textualis.wordpress.com/" id="LPlnk780594" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Textualis Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.arcpoetry.ca/" id="LPlnk83832" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Arc Poetry Magazine</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.canthius.com/" id="LPlnk32378" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Canthius</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://ottawaartsreview.com/" id="LPlnk252859" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">The Ottawa Arts Review</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.grungepapers.com/" id="LPlnk571266" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Grunge Papers</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://apt9press.ca/" id="LPlnk854560" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apt. 9</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.desertpetspress.com/" id="LPlnk685207" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Desert Pets Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://inwordsmagazine.wordpress.com/" id="LPlnk631435" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In/Words magazine & press</a>, Ottawa Press Gang, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://40-watt%20spotlight.com/" id="LPlnk516901" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">40-Watt Spotlight</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.puddlesofskypress.com/" id="LPlnk474847" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Puddles of Sky Press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://invisiblepublishing.com/" id="LPlnk312607" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Invisible Publishing</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="https://marilynirwin.wordpress.com/shreeking-violet/" id="LPlnk53314" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">shreeking violet press</a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca/" id="LPlnk381684" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Touch<span> </span> the Donkey</i></a>, <a class="OWAAutoLink" href="http://www.pearlpirie.com/phafours" id="LPlnk520789" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #999999; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Phafours Press</a>, etc etc etc.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />The ottawa small press fair is held twice a year, and was founded in 1994 by rob mclennan and James Spyker. Organized/hosted since by rob mclennan.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Come on by and see some of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address.</b>Unfortunately, we are unable to sell things for publishers who aren’t able to make the event.<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Also: please let me know if you are able/willing to poster, move tables or distribute fliers for the event. The more people we all tell, the better the fair!<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" />Contact: rob mclennan at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com for questions, or to sign up for a table</span></span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;" /></div>
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rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-71601623948741418972018-08-14T11:37:00.000-04:002018-08-14T11:37:13.797-04:00the ottawa small press fair, autumn 2018 edition: November 24,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:<br /><br /> the ottawa<br /> small press<br /> book fair<br /><br />autumn 2018 /<span> 24th anniversary event!</span><br />will be held on Saturday, November 24, 2018 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">“once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">General info:<br />the ottawa small press book fair<br />noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br /><br />admission free to the public.</b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">$25 for exhibitors, full tables<br />$12.50 for half-tables</b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal options also available</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Note: for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables.<br />To be included in the exhibitor catalog:</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> please include name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). Be sure to send by November 10th if you would like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">And don’t forget the pre-fair reading usually held the night before, at The Carleton Tavern! (readers tba)<br /><br />BE AWARE: </b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">given that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair can’t (unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to participate. The fair is roughly first-come, first-served, although preference will be given to small publishers over self-published authors (being a “small press fair,” after all).</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">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 regular appearances by publishers including </span><a href="http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">above/ground press</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.angelhousepress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">AngelHousePress</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://bywords.ca/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>Bywords.ca</i></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Room 302 Books, </span><a href="https://textualis.wordpress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Textualis Press</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><a href="http://www.arcpoetry.ca/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>Arc Poetry Magazine</i></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.canthius.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>Canthius</i></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://ottawaartsreview.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>The Ottawa Arts Review</i></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.grungepapers.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Grunge Papers</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://apt9press.ca/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Apt. 9</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.desertpetspress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Desert Pets Press</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://inwordsmagazine.wordpress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">In/Words magazine & press</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, Ottawa Press Gang, </span><a href="http://40-watt%20spotlight.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">40-Watt Spotlight</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.puddlesofskypress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Puddles of Sky Press</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://invisiblepublishing.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Invisible Publishing</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="https://marilynirwin.wordpress.com/shreeking-violet/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">shreeking violet press</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>Touch the Donkey</i></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.pearlpirie.com/phafours" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Phafours Press</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, etc etc etc.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The ottawa small press fair is held twice a year, and was founded in 1994 by rob mclennan and James Spyker. Organized/hosted since by rob mclennan.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Come on by and see some of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />Free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address.</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Unfortunately, we are unable to sell things for publishers who aren’t able to make the event.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Also: please let me know if you are able/willing to poster, move tables or distribute fliers for the event. The more people we all tell, the better the fair!</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Contact: rob mclennan at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com for questions, or to sign up for a table</span></span></span><br />
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rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-48858540985069729752018-01-23T13:25:00.000-05:002018-01-23T13:25:13.771-05:00the ottawa small press fair, spring 2018 edition: June 23<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJo9b4SvIiI2rWNTMSX6xoeOrn9e2v4uCKf6CYc826DUIOJ_5p00Yk7DN2JO9IgHkB0eqhlEjTKWti9e2dpzyJ5EW_pRUqtn-T-SmEISk4PZYYcgcJGKv_yKTsnhgkxiYfrgCh0Zp3WNsG/s1600/bookfair+cher+peyton+place.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="600" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJo9b4SvIiI2rWNTMSX6xoeOrn9e2v4uCKf6CYc826DUIOJ_5p00Yk7DN2JO9IgHkB0eqhlEjTKWti9e2dpzyJ5EW_pRUqtn-T-SmEISk4PZYYcgcJGKv_yKTsnhgkxiYfrgCh0Zp3WNsG/s400/bookfair+cher+peyton+place.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:<br /><br /> the ottawa<br /> small press<br /> book fair<br /><br />spring 2018 / <br />will be held on Saturday, June 23, 2018 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</b><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">“once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">General info:<br />the ottawa small press book fair<br />noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br /><br />admission free to the public.</b><br />
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">$25 for exhibitors, full tables<br />$12.50 for half-tables</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal options also available</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Note: for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables.<br />To be included in the exhibitor catalog:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> please include name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). Be sure to send by June 10th if you would like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">And don’t forget the pre-fair reading usually held the night before, at The Carleton Tavern! (readers tba)<br /><br />BE AWARE: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">given that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair can’t (unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to participate. The fair is roughly first-come, first-served, although preference will be given to small publishers over self-published authors (being a “small press fair,” after all).</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">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 regular appearances by publishers including </span><a href="http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">above/ground press</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.angelhousepress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">AngelHousePress</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://bywords.ca/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>Bywords.ca</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.chaudierebooks.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Chaudiere Books</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, Room 302 Books, </span><a href="https://textualis.wordpress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Textualis Press</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.theehelbox.wordpress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Thee Hellbox Press</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.arcpoetry.ca/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>Arc Poetry Magazine</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.canthius.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>Canthius</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://ottawaartsreview.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>The Ottawa Arts Review</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.grungepapers.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The Grunge Papers</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://apt9press.ca/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Apt. 9</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.desertpetspress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Desert Pets Press</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://inwordsmagazine.wordpress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">In/Words magazine & press</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, Ottawa Press Gang, </span><a href="http://40-watt%20spotlight.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">40-Watt Spotlight</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.puddlesofskypress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Puddles of Sky Press</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://invisiblepublishing.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Invisible Publishing</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="https://marilynirwin.wordpress.com/shreeking-violet/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">shreeking violet press</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>Touch the Donkey</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, </span><a href="http://www.pearlpirie.com/phafours" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Phafours Press</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, etc etc etc.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The ottawa small press fair is held twice a year, and was founded in 1994 by rob mclennan and James Spyker. Organized/hosted since by rob mclennan.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Come on by and see some of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!</span><br />
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />Free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address.</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Unfortunately, we are unable to sell things for publishers who aren’t able to make the event.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Also: please let me know if you are able/willing to poster, move tables or distribute fliers for the event. The more people we all tell, the better the fair!</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Contact: rob mclennan at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com for questions, or to sign up for a table</span>rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-16872581839409537842017-08-22T09:07:00.000-04:002017-08-23T16:38:08.410-04:00the ottawa small press fair, autumn 2017 edition: November 25<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:<br /><br /> the ottawa<br /> small press<br /> book fair<br /><br />autumn 2017 / 23rd anniversary edition<br />will be held on Saturday, November 25, 2017 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</b><br />
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“once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.<br />
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<b>General info:<br />the ottawa small press book fair<br />noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br /><br />admission free to the public.</b><br />
<b>$25 for exhibitors, full tables<br />$12.50 for half-tables</b><br />
(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal options also available<br />
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<b>Note: for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables.<br />To be included in the exhibitor catalog:</b> please include name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any). Be sure to send by November 15th if you would like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.<br />
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<b>And don’t forget the pre-fair reading usually held the night before, at The Carleton Tavern! (readers tba)<br /><br />BE AWARE: </b>given that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair can’t (unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to participate. The fair is roughly first-come, first-served, although preference will be given to small publishers over self-published authors (being a “small press fair,” after all).<br />
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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 regular appearances by publishers including <a href="http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/">above/ground press</a>, <a href="http://www.angelhousepress.com/">AngelHousePress</a>, <a href="http://bywords.ca/"><i>Bywords.ca</i></a>, <a href="http://www.chaudierebooks.com/">Chaudiere Books</a>, Room 302 Books, <a href="https://textualis.wordpress.com/">Textualis Press</a>, <a href="http://www.theehelbox.wordpress.com/">Thee Hellbox Press</a>, <a href="http://www.arcpoetry.ca/"><i>Arc Poetry Magazine</i></a>, <a href="http://www.canthius.com/"><i>Canthius</i></a>, <a href="http://ottawaartsreview.com/"><i>The Ottawa Arts Review</i></a>, <a href="http://www.grungepapers.com/">The Grunge Papers</a>, <a href="http://apt9press.ca/">Apt. 9</a>, <a href="http://www.desertpetspress.com/">Desert Pets Press</a>, <a href="http://inwordsmagazine.wordpress.com/">In/Words magazine & press</a>, Ottawa Press Gang, <a href="http://40-watt%20spotlight.com/">40-Watt Spotlight</a>, <a href="http://www.puddlesofskypress.com/">Puddles of Sky Press</a>, <a href="http://invisiblepublishing.com/">Invisible Publishing</a>, <a href="https://marilynirwin.wordpress.com/shreeking-violet/">shreeking violet press</a>, <a href="http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca/"><i>Touch the Donkey</i></a>, <a href="http://www.pearlpirie.com/phafours">Phafours Press</a>, etc etc etc.<br />
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The ottawa small press fair is held twice a year, and was founded in 1994 by rob mclennan and James Spyker. Organized/hosted since by rob mclennan.<br />
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Come on by and see some of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!<br />
<b><br />Free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address.</b> Unfortunately, we are unable to sell things for publishers who aren’t able to make the event.<br />
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Also: please let me know if you are able/willing to poster, move tables or distribute fliers for the event. The more people we all tell, the better the fair!<br />
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Contact: rob mclennan at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com for questions, or to sign up for a tablerob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-63766487169583190952017-06-22T10:34:00.000-04:002017-06-22T10:34:04.678-04:00The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, June 23, 2017: Rubacha, MacDonell, Million + Christie,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:<br /><br />The Factory Reading Series<br />pre-small press book fair reading</b><br />
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<b>featuring readings by:</b><br /><b>Elisha May Rubacha (Peterborough)</b><br /><b>Sarah MacDonell (Ottawa)</b><br /><b>Justin Million (Peterborough)</b><br /><b>and Jason Christie (Ottawa)</b></blockquote>
<b><br /><i>lovingly hosted by rob mclennan</i><br />Friday, June 23, 2017;<br />doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm<br />The Carleton Tavern,<br />223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale; upstairs)<br /><br />[<a href="http://smallpressbookfair.blogspot.ca/2017/01/the-ottawa-small-press-fair-spring-2017.html">And don’t forget the ottawa small press book fair, held the following day at the Jack Purcell Community Centre</a>]</b><br /><br /><a href="https://elisharubacha.wordpress.com/"><b>Elisha May Rubacha</b></a> lives, writes, and gardens in Peterborough, ON. She is the editor and designer of <a href="https://birdburiedpress.wordpress.com/"><b>bird, buried press</b></a> and the co-curator of <a href="https://showandtellpoetry.wordpress.com/"><b>the Show and Tell Poetry Series</b></a>. Her work has been published by <i>Bywords</i>, Puddles of Sky Press, <i>The Steel Chisel</i>, and <i>Skirt Quarterly</i>, and she was shortlisted for the <i>PRISM International</i> Creative Non-fiction Contest in 2016.<br /><br />If you work in the arts, <b>Sarah MacDonell</b>
would like you to hire her. A 2017 Tree Reading Series Hot Ottawa
Voice, AOE Young Artist Mentee, and youth board member of the OAG’s
dépArt, Sarah has performed at Slackline Creative Series, Sawdust
Reading Series, CSA rout/e, and the <i>ottawater</i> launch. Her first chapbook, <a href="http://charlatan.ca/2017/02/review-sarah-macdonells-the-lithium-body/"><b><i>The Lithium Body</i></b></a>, came out in January with In/Words. You can find her poems online and posted outside of McCarthy Park. <br /><br /><b>Justin Million</b>
[pictured] is a poet living, working, writing, and curating art happenings in
downtown Peterborough, ON. Million has published 19 poetry chapbooks,
with presses such as Apt. 9 Press, and bird, buried press, and has been
featured in literary magazines such as <i>Word and Colour</i>, <i>Poetry Is Dead</i>, and <i>ottawater</i>. Million is also the curator of the <a href="https://showandtellpoetry.wordpress.com/"><b>Show and Tell Poetry Series in Peterborough</b></a>, ON, is the Poetry Editor for <a href="https://birdburiedpress.wordpress.com/"><b>bird, buried press</b></a>,
also located in Peterborough, ON, and features every month with his
Smith-Corona Electra 110 at KEYBOARDS!, Peterborough’s only live-writing
poetry show.<br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/meesterchristie"><b>Jason Christie</b></a> is the author of <i>Canada Post </i>(Snare),<i> i-ROBOT</i> (Edge/Tesseract), <i>Unknown Actor </i>(Insomniac), and a co-editor of <i>Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry</i> (Mercury). He has five chapbooks from above/ground press: <a href="http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.ca/2017/05/backlist-28-kerr-schmaltz-christie-lea.html"><b><i>8th Ave 15th Street NW</i></b></a> (2004), <a href="http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.ca/2013/05/new-from-aboveground-press-government.html"><b><i>GOVERNMENT</i></b></a> (2013), <a href="http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.ca/2014/11/new-from-aboveground-press-cursed.html"><b><i>Cursed Objects</i></b></a> (2014), <a href="http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.ca/2015/10/new-from-aboveground-press-charm-jason.html"><b><i>The Charm</i></b></a> (2015), <a href="http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.ca/2017/01/new-from-aboveground-press-randomlines.html"><b><i>random_lines = random.choice</i></b></a> (2017). He is currently writing poetry about (being) objects, and exaltation.rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-46886588547634391382017-01-14T10:56:00.000-05:002017-03-27T12:32:48.897-04:00the ottawa small press fair, spring 2017 edition: June 24<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">span-o (the small press action network -
ottawa) presents:<br />
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the ottawa<br />
small press<br />
book fair<br />
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spring 2017 edition</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">will be held on Saturday, June 24, 2017 in room
203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">“once upon a time, way way back in October 1994,
rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white;">General info:<br />
the ottawa small press book fair<br />
noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br />
<br />
admission free to the public.<br />
<br />
$25 for exhibitors, full tables<br />
$12.50 for half-tables</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista
Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal options also available</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white;">Note: for the sake of increased demand, we are now
offering half tables.</span></b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white;">To be included in the exhibitor catalog:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">please include name of press, address, email, web address, contact person,
type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are
being considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area
events (if any). Be sure to send by <span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif";">June</span> 15th if you would like to appear
in the exhibitor catalogue.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white;">And don’t forget the pre-fair reading usually held the
night before, at The Carleton Tavern! (readers tba)<br />
<br />
BE AWARE:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">given that the spring
2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say no to at least half a
dozen exhibitors), the fair can’t (unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to
participate. The fair is roughly first-come, first-served, although preference
will be given to small publishers over self-published authors (being a “small
press fair,” after all).</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">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 regular appearances by publishers including<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">above/ground press</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.angelhousepress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">AngelHousePress</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://bywords.ca/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">Bywords.ca</span></i></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.chaudierebooks.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">Chaudiere Books</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, Room 302 Books,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="https://textualis.wordpress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">Textualis Press</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.theehelbox.wordpress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">Thee Hellbox
Press</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.arcpoetry.ca/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">Arc Poetry
Magazine</span></i></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.canthius.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">Canthius</span></i></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://ottawaartsreview.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">The Ottawa
Arts Review</span></i></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span> <a href="http://www.grungepapers.com/"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">The
Grunge Papers</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://apt9press.ca/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">Apt. 9</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.desertpetspress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">Desert Pets
Press</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://inwordsmagazine.wordpress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">In/Words
magazine & press</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, Ottawa
Press Gang,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://40-watt%20spotlight.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">40-Watt
Spotlight</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.puddlesofskypress.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">Puddles of Sky
Press</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://invisiblepublishing.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">Invisible
Publishing</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="https://marilynirwin.wordpress.com/shreeking-violet/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">shreeking violet
press</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">Touch the
Donkey</span></i></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.pearlpirie.com/phafours" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: #999999;">Phafours Press</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, etc etc etc.</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The ottawa small press fair is held twice a year,
and was founded in 1994 by rob mclennan and James Spyker. Organized/hosted
since by rob mclennan.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Come on by and see some of the best of the small
press from Ottawa and beyond!</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white;">Free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the
same address.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Unfortunately, we are unable to sell things for
publishers who aren’t able to make the event.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Also: please let me know if you are able/willing
to poster, move tables or distribute fliers for the event. The more people we
all tell, the better the fair!</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Contact: rob mclennan at rob_mclennan (at)
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<b>span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:<br /><br />The Factory Reading Series<br />pre-small press book fair reading<br />featuring readings by:</b><br />
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<b>Meagan Strimas (Toronto)</b><br /><b>Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (Toronto)</b><br /><b>Stephen Brockwell (Ottawa)</b><br /><b>Doris Fiszer (Ottawa)</b><br /><b>+ Blaine Marchand (Ottawa)</b></blockquote>
<b><i>lovingly hosted by rob mclennan</i><br />Friday, November 25, 2016;<br />doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm<br />The Carleton Tavern,<br />223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale; upstairs)</b><br /><br /><b>[<a href="http://smallpressbookfair.blogspot.ca/2016/09/the-ottawa-small-press-fair-autumn-2016.html">And don’t forget the ottawa small press book fair, held the following day at the Jack Purcell Community Centre</a>]</b><br /><br /><b>Meaghan Strimas</b> is the author of three poetry collections, <i>Junkman’s Daughter</i>, <i>A Good Time Had By All </i>and <a href="http://mansfieldpress.net/2016/10/yes-or-nope/"><i><b>Yes or Nope</b></i></a>, and the editor of <i>The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwan</i>. She grew up in Owen Sound, Ontario, and lives in Toronto, where she is a professor in the Department of English at Humber College and the managing editor of the <a href="http://humberliteraryreview.com/"><b><i>Humber Literary Review</i></b></a>.<br /><br /><b>Pier Giorgio Di Cicco [pictured] </b>is the author of twenty-two volumes of poetry, most recently <a href="http://mansfieldpress.net/2016/10/my-life-without-me/"><i><b>My Life Without Me</b></i></a>, and a book of manifestos on creative cities called <i>Municipal Mind</i>. He has lectured widely in the domain of creative economies throughout N. America and Europe and is the recipient of a Canadian Urban Institute Award for his thesis of civic spirit as the underpinning of prosperous modern cities. He is a Roman Catholic priest, a jazz trumpeter, and principal of the urban consultancy, “Municipal Mind” (<a href="http://municipalmind.com/"><b>municipalmind.com</b></a>). He is presently the public space liaison between the stakeholders of the Toronto waterfront land and the City of Toronto. He was the Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto between 2004 and 2009. <br /><br /><b>Stephen Brockwell</b> cut his writing teeth in the ’80s in Montreal, appearing on French and English CBC Radio and in the anthologies <i>Cross/cut: Contemporary English Quebec Poetry</i> and <i>The Insecurity of Art </i>(both Véhicule Press, 1982). George Woodcock described Brockwell’s first book, The Wire in Fences, as having an “extraordinary range of empathies and perceptions.” Harold Bloom wrote that Brockwell’s second book, <i>Cometology</i>, “held rare and authentic promise.” <i>Fruitfly Geographic</i> won the Archibald Lampman award for best book of poetry in Ottawa in 2005. Brockwell currently operates a small IT consulting company from the 7th floor of the Chateau Laurier and lives in a house perpetually under construction. His most recent poetry title is <a href="http://mansfieldpress.net/2016/10/all-of-us-reticent-here-together/"><b><i>All of Us Reticent, Here, Together</i></b></a>, published by Mansfield Press.<br /><br /><b>Doris Fiszer </b>is a member of Ruby Tuesday’s writing group. Her poetry has appeared in <i>Bywords Quarterly Journal</i>, <i>bywords.ca </i>and other local publications. Her chapbook <i>The Binders </i>won the 2016 Tree Chapbook Award and <a href="http://www.treereadingseries.ca/about/press"><b>was published by Tree Press</b></a>. The poems in the chapbook were inspired by her parents’ experiences in Nazi camps during world War 11 and are part of a larger collection she is currently working on. <br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.treereadingseries.ca/readers/blaine-marchand">Blaine Marchand's</a> </b>poetry and prose has appeared in magazines across Canada and in the US. He has won several prizes for his writing, including 2nd Prize in the 1990 National Poetry Contest and the Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry for his book <i>A Garden Enclosed</i>. His two most recent books, <i>Aperture </i>and <i>The Craving of Knives</i> were short-listed for the Archibald Lampman Award in 2009 and 2010. He has six books of poetry published, a children's novel and a work of non-fiction. <br />
<br />rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-29361142090654977622016-09-07T14:22:00.000-04:002016-09-07T14:25:00.098-04:00the ottawa small press fair, autumn 2016 edition: November 26<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:<br /><br /> the ottawa<br /> small press<br /> book fair<br /><br />autumn 2016 / 22nd anniversary edition<br />will
be held on Saturday, November 26, 2016 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell
Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</b><br />
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“once
upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.<br />
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<b>General info:<br />the ottawa small press book fair<br />noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br /><br />admission free to the public.<br /><br />$20 for exhibitors, full tables<br />$10 for half-tables</b><br />
(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal options also available<br />
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<b>Note: for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables.</b><br />
<b>To
be included in the exhibitor catalog: </b>please include name of press,
address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list
of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered and
any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if
any). Be sure to send by November 15th if you would like to appear in the
exhibitor catalogue.<br />
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<b>And don’t forget the pre-fair reading usually held the night before, at The Carleton Tavern! (readers tba)<br /><br />BE
AWARE:</b> given that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity
(forcing me to say no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair
can’t (unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to participate. The fair
is roughly first-come, first-served, although preference will be given to
small publishers over self-published authors (being a “small press
fair,” after all).<br />
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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 regular appearances by publishers
including <a href="http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/">above/ground press</a>, <a href="http://www.angelhousepress.com/">AngelHousePress</a>, <a href="http://bywords.ca/"><i>Bywords.ca</i></a>, <a href="http://www.chaudierebooks.com/">Chaudiere Books</a>, Room 302 Books, <a href="https://textualis.wordpress.com/">Textualis Press</a>, <a href="http://www.theehelbox.wordpress.com/">Thee Hellbox Press</a>, <a href="http://www.arcpoetry.ca/"><i>Arc Poetry Magazine</i></a>, <a href="http://www.canthius.com/"><i>Canthius</i></a>, <a href="http://ottawaartsreview.com/"><i>The Ottawa Arts Review</i></a>,
<a href="http://www.buschekbooks.com/">BuschekBooks</a>, <a href="http://www.grungepapers.com/">The Grunge Papers</a>, <a href="http://apt9press.ca/">Apt. 9</a>, <a href="http://www.desertpetspress.com/">Desert Pets Press</a>, <a href="http://inwordsmagazine.wordpress.com/">In/Words magazine & press</a>,
Ottawa Press Gang, <a href="http://40-Watt Spotlight.com">40-Watt Spotlight</a>, <a href="http://www.puddlesofskypress.com/">Puddles of Sky Press</a>, <a href="http://invisiblepublishing.com/">Invisible Publishing</a>, <a href="https://marilynirwin.wordpress.com/shreeking-violet/">shreeking violet press</a>, <a href="http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.ca/"><i>Touch the Donkey</i></a>, <a href="http://www.pearlpirie.com/phafours">Phafours Press</a>, etc etc etc.<br />
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The ottawa
small press fair is held twice a year, and was founded in 1994 by rob
mclennan and James Spyker. Organized/hosted since by rob mclennan thru
span-o.<br />
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Come on by and see some of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!<br />
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<b>Free
things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address. </b>Unfortunately, we are
unable to sell things for publishers who aren’t able to make the event.<br />
<br />
Also:
please let me know if you are able/willing to poster, move tables or
distribute fliers for the event. The more people we all tell, the better
the fair!<br />
<br />
Contact: rob mclennan at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com for questions, or to sign up for a table<br />
<br />rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-89981789453622141132016-01-27T12:05:00.002-05:002016-01-27T12:05:20.818-05:00the ottawa small press fair, spring 2016 edition: June 18<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">spring 2016 edition</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">will be held on Saturday, June 18, 2016 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">General info:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">the ottawa small press book fair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">admission free to the public.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">$20 for exhibitors, full tables</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">$10 for half-tables</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal options also available</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Note:</span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">To be included in the exhibitor catalog:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">please include name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any).<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Be sure to send by June 10th if you would like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">And don’t forget the pre-fair reading usually held the night before, at The Carleton Tavern! (readers tba)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">BE AWARE:</span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>given that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair can’t (unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to participate. The fair is roughly first-come, first-served, altough preference will be given to small publishers over self-published authors (being a “small press fair,” after all).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">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 regular appearances by publishers including above/ground press, AngelHousePress,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Bywords.ca</i>, Chaudiere Books, Room 302 Books,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Arc Poetry Magazine</i>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Ottawa Arts Review</i>, Buschek Books, The Grunge Papers, Apt. 9, In/Words magazine & press, Ottawa Press Gang, 40-Watt Spotlight, Puddles of Sky Press, room 302 books,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Touch the Donkey</i>, Phafours Press and others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The ottawa small press fair is held twice a year, and was founded in 1994 by rob mclennan and James Spyker. Organized/hosted since by rob mclennan thru span-o.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Come on by and see some of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address. We are unable to sell things for publishers who aren’t able to make the event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Also: please let me know if you are able/willing to poster, move tables or distribute fliers for the event. The more people we all tell, the better the fair!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Contact:</span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>rob mclennan at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com for questions, or to sign up for a table</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">fall 2015 edition</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">will be held on
Saturday, November 7, 2015 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on
Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“once
upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the
ottawa small press book fair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">noon
to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">admission free to the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">$20 for exhibitors,
full tables</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">$10 for half-tables</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(payable to rob
mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9; paypal options also
available</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Note:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> for the sake of
increased demand, we are now offering half tables. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To be included in the
exhibitor catalog: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">please
include name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of
publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being
considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events
(if any).<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Be sure to send by October
31st if you would like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And don’t forget the
pre-fair reading usually held the night before, at The Carleton Tavern!
(readers tba)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">BE AWARE:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> given that the spring
2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say no to at least half a dozen
exhibitors), the fair can’t (unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to
participate. The fair is roughly first-come, first-served, altough preference
will be given to small publishers over self-published authors (being a “small
press fair,” after all).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">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 regular appearances by
publishers including above/ground press, AngelHousePress, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bywords.ca</i>, Chaudiere Books, Room 302 Books, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Arc Poetry Magazine</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Ottawa Arts Review</i>, Buschek Books, The Grunge Papers, Apt. 9, In/Words
magazine & press, Ottawa Press Gang, 40-Watt Spotlight, Puddles of Sky
Press, room 302 books, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Touch the Donkey</i>,
Phafours Press and others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
ottawa small press fair is held twice a year, and was founded in 1994 by rob mclennan
and James Spyker. Organized/hosted since by rob mclennan thru span-o.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Come on by and see some
of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Free
things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address. We are unable to
sell things for publishers who aren’t able to make the event. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Also:
please let me know if you are able/willing to poster, move tables or distribute
fliers for the event. The more people we all tell, the better the fair! </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Contact:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> rob mclennan at
rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com for questions, or to sign up for a table</span></div>
rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-36581263849612137742015-06-08T13:50:00.000-04:002015-06-08T13:50:00.198-04:00The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, June 12, 2015: Irwin, Steadman, Cumming + Ross,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:<br /><br />The Factory Reading Series<br />pre-small press book fair reading<br />featuring readings by:</b><br />
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<b>Marilyn Irwin (Ottawa)</b><br /><b>Dean Steadman (Ottawa)</b><br /><b>Alicia Cumming (Kemptville)</b><br /><b>+ Stuart Ross (Coburg)</b></blockquote>
<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>lovingly hosted by rob mclennan</i><br />Friday, June 12, 2015;<br />doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm<br />The Carleton Tavern,<br />223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale; upstairs)</b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />[<a href="http://www.smallpressbookfair.blogspot.ca/2015/05/the-ottawa-small-press-book-fair-june.html" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">And don’t forget the ottawa small press book fair, held the following day at the Jack Purcell Community Centre</a>]</b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">A graduate of Algonquin College’s Creative Writing program, winner of</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Arc Poetry Magazine</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">’s 2013 Diana Brebner Prize, and a 2014 Hot Ottawa Voice,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Marilyn Irwin’s</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">,</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bywords</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">In/Words</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">New American Writing</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">, among others. Her previous chapbooks include<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">for when you pick daisies</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(self-published and above/ground, 2010),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">flicker</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">(above/ground, 2012),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">little nothings</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(self-published, 2012), and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">tiny</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">(In/Words, 2014).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">for when you pick daisies<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">was printed in full for the third time in the anthology<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Ground rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press 2003-2013</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Chaudiere Books, 2013). Her most recent chapbook</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the blue, blue there</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was published by Apt. 9 Press. She is currently working on her first full length manuscript, runs shreeking violet press and lives with her two cats in Ottawa, Ontario.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Dean Steadman’s</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> [pictured] </span>work has been published in Canadian journals and e-zines, as well as in the anthology<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Pith and Wry: Canadian Poetry</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">(Scrivener Press, 2010). He was a finalist in the 2011 Ottawa Book Awards for his poetry collection,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">their blue drowning</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Frog Hollow Press, 2010). His second poetry collection,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Après Satie —For Two and Four Hands</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">, will be published by Brick Books in 2016. AngelHousePress will be publishing his chapbook,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Worm's Saving Day</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">, in June, 2015.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Alicia Cumming</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is an English-as-a-Second Language support teacher based in Kemptville, Ontario. She became inspired to examine our expectations and experiences of womanhood after spending time in community settings where social norms for women were critically questioned. Much of her work seeks to focus on how such norms, innocuous as they may seem, deeply suppress the autonomy of women. Website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://aliciacumming.tumblr.com/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">aliciacumming.tumblr.com</a><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Stuart Ross</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>published his first literary pamphlet on the photocopier in his dad’s office one night in 1979. Through the 1980s, he stood on Toronto’s Yonge Street wearing signs like “Writer Going To Hell,” selling over 7,000 chapbooks. He is the author of more than 15 books of fiction, poetry and essays, most recently<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">(Anvil Press, 2015) and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">A Hamburger in a Gallery</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(DC Books, 2015). Stuart’s many chapbooks include three released in 2014—</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Nice Haircut, Fiddlehead</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Puddles of Sky Press),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">A Pretty Good Year</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Nose in Book Publishing) and</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In In My Dream</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">(BookThug)—and others from Room 3O2 Books, The Front Press, Apt. 9 Press, Silver Birch Press, Pink Dog Press and his own Proper Tales Press, which he launched 36 years ago. He is co-translator of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">My Planet of Kites</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">, by Marie-Ève Comtois (Mansfield Press, 2015). Stuart is a founding member of the Meet the Presses collective and has his own imprint, “a stuart ross book,” at Mansfield Press. Stuart lives in Cobourg, Ontario, and blogs at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://bloggamooga.blogspot.ca/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">bloggamooga.blogspot.ca</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span>rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-12273323184820045732015-05-12T10:50:00.000-04:002015-05-12T10:50:01.245-04:00the ottawa small press book fair : june 12-13, 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.smallpressbookfair.blogspot.ca/2015/02/the-ottawa-small-press-fair-spring-2015.html">The spring 2015 edition of the semi-annual ottawa small press book fair, an event more than two decades old, is but a month away! Be sure to come by the Jack Purcell Community Centre on Saturday, June 13 from noon to 5pm.</a></b><br /><br />Some of the participating literary presses and journals this time around include 40-Watt Spotlight, above/ground press, AngelHousePress, Apt. 9 Press, <i>Arc Poetry Magazine</i>, Bookburner Press, BuschekBooks, <i>Bywords</i>, catkin press, Chaudiere Books, GiddyPigs, The Grunge Papers, In/Words magazine & press, Ottawa Press Gang, <i>ottawater</i>, phafours, Puddles of Sky Press, Quattro Books, Renaissance Book Press, room 302 books / 1cent, Textualis Press and <i>Touch the Donkey</i>. Come on by and see some of the best of the small press from Ottawa and beyond!<br /><br />And: our regular pre-fair event at The Carleton Tavern includes chapbook launches by Marilyn Irwin and Dean Steadman, as well as other authors tba!</span>rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-57559912874284847172015-02-09T11:28:00.000-05:002015-02-09T11:28:15.742-05:00the ottawa small press fair, spring 2015 edition: june 13<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:<br /><br /> the ottawa<br /> small press<br /> book fair<br /><br />spring 2015 edition<br />will be happening Saturday, June 13, 2014 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</b><br /><br />contact rob at rob_mclennan@hotmail.com to sign up for a table, etc.<br /><br />"once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.<br /><br /><b>General info:</b><br />the ottawa small press book fair<br />noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br /><br /><b>admission free to the public.</b><br /><br />$20 for exhibitors, full tables<br />$10 for half-tables<br />(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9;<br /><br /><b>send by June 1 if you would like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.</b><br /><br /><b>note: </b>for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables. for catalog, exhibitors should send name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any).<br /><br /><b>And don't forget the pre-fair reading usually held the night before, at The Carleton Tavern! (readers tba); also,<br /><br />BE AWARE:</b> given that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair can't (unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to participate. the fair is roughly first-come, first-served, but preference will be given to small publishers over self-published authors (being a "small press fair," after all).<br /><br />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, Phafours Press, and others. happens twice a year, founded in 1994 by rob mclennan and James Spyker. now run by rob mclennan thru span-o. questions, rob_mclennan@hotmail.com<br /><br />free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address. we are unable to sell things for folk who can't 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.rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-6221405158645528062014-12-03T14:38:00.000-05:002014-12-03T14:38:00.709-05:00ottawa small press book fair, 20th anniversary edition: some reports,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>[blurry photo of Stuart Ross at the pre-fair reading, with jwcurry and Nina Jane in the background, listening] </b>There were a couple of responses to our most recent edition of <a href="http://smallpressbookfair.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-ottawa-small-press-fair-twentieth.html">the ottawa small press book fair</a> (<a href="http://www.robmclennan.blogspot.ca/2014/11/ongoing-notes-ottawa-small-press-book.html">including my own, here</a>), which celebrated <b>twenty years of activity</b> on November 7 and 8, 2014. <a href="http://www.pagehalffull.com/humanyms/2014/11/chapbooks-fairs-fair/">Pearl Pirie (exhibiting her phafours) was good enough to write up a little report on the fair itself on her blog (with photos a-plenty!)</a>, <a href="http://bloggamooga.blogspot.ca/2014/11/ottawa-small-press-fair-all-stuff-i.html">Stuart Ross (pre-fair reader and publisher/editor) posted a short report on the event</a>, and <a href="http://brandoncrilly.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/ottawa-small-press-book-fair/">Brandon Crilly not only wrote a report on the fair</a>, <a href="http://brandoncrilly.wordpress.com/2014/11/11/always-bring-your-wallet-to-a-reading/">but on the pre-fair reading as well</a>! Thanks incredibly much for everyone who participated! And of course, we are already starting to think about spring...</span>rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-16463141537995544052014-11-02T22:56:00.001-05:002014-11-02T23:24:16.953-05:00Cascadia Poetry Festival Small Press Fair, May 1-3, 2015 in Nanaimo<div class="MsoNormal">
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DEETS: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Join us for the Small Press Fair at the 3rd
Cascadia Poetry Festival happening in Nanaimo, BC, next spring. The 4-day
festival runs from April 30-May 3, 2015. And the Small Press Fair will begin on
Friday, May 1 and continue throughout the festival. The festival will be held
at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo and at various downtown locations.
The Small Press Fair will be staged at the University, adjacent to the auditorium
used for morning panel discussions and mainstage poetry presentations in the
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presses) will receive a 4-foot-long table and have its logo featured in our
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at $25.00 each, granting admittance to all events with the exception of the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">The
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seeks to bioregionally animate and culturally construct Cascadia bioregion by
gathering writers, artists, scientists and activists to collaborate, discover
and foster deeper connection between all inhabitants and the place itself. Over
four days the festival features Academic, Democratic and Performance
components, late night readings, a Small Press Fair and several workshops. Some
of the best poetry minds in the bioregion will gather, discuss this place and
begin to better understand Cascadia and our role here. The festival was founded by <a href="http://splab.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">SPLAB</span></a>, Seattle Poetics Lab. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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where the 2014 Festival attracted 400 participants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">The
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Bringhurst, Barry McKinnon, Sharon Thesen, George Stanley, Stephen Collis,
Joanne Arnott, Peter Culley, Amber Dawn, Garry Gottfriedson, Robert Lashley,
Christine Leclerc, Paul Nelson, Sebastien Wen, Rita Wong and so many more! See
the full list <span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://cascadiapoetryfestival.org/meet-our-2015-poets" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: purple;">here</span></b></a>. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">See photos from the 2014 festival <span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://pigsquash.wordpress.com/2014/05/08/photos-cascadia-poetry-festival-2014/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: purple;">here</span></b></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dig us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cascadia-Poetry-Festival/716860691678782" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Facebook</span></a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:<br /><br />The Factory Reading Series<br />pre-small press book fair reading<br /><br />featuring readings by:<br /></b></span><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Jennifer Baker (Ottawa)</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Anita Dolman (Toronto)</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Frances Boyle (Ottawa)</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Dave Currie (Ottawa)</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b> + Stuart Ross (Coburg)</b></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>lovingly hosted by rob mclennan</i><br />Friday, November 7, 2014;<br />doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm<br />The Carleton Tavern,<br />223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale; upstairs)<br /><br />Jennifer Baker</b> was raised in Exeter, Ontario, where she divided her time between town and her grandparents' farm. She is currently a part-time professor and PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa. Her new chapbook, her first, is <i>Abject Lessons </i>(<a href="http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.ca/">above/ground press</a>).<br /><br /><b><a href="http://ottawapoetry.blogspot.ca/2013/05/on-writing-1-anita-dolman.html">Anita Dolman</a></b><a href="http://ottawapoetry.blogspot.ca/2013/05/on-writing-1-anita-dolman.html"> </a>is an Ottawa-based writer and editor. Her poetry and fiction have appeared throughout Canada and the United States, including, most recently, in <i>On Spec: the Canadian magazine of the fantastic</i>, <i>Grain</i>, <i>Bywords.ca</i>, <i>The Antigonish Review</i>, ottawater and Geist. <a href="http://morningrainpublishing.com/project/happy-enough-by-anita-dolman/">Her short story “Happy Enough” is available as an e-novella from Morning Rain Publishing</a> (2014). Follow Anita on Twitter @ajdolman. Her second poetry chapbook is <i>Where No One Can See You</i> (<a href="http://www.angelhousepress.com/index.php?Chapbooks">AngelHousePress</a>, 2014).<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.treereadingseries.ca/readers/frances-boyle">Frances Boyle</a></b> is originally from Regina, and maintains a yearning for both the prairies and the west coast where she lived for a number of years. She is the author of <i>Light-carved Passages </i>(<a href="http://www.buschekbooks.com/">BuschekBooks</a>, 2014) and the chapbook <i>Portal Stones</i>, winner of Tree Press’s chapbook contest. Among other awards, she’s received the Diana Brebner Prize, and first place in <a href="http://this.org/magazine/2011/11/25/lit-hunt-2011-wake-poetry-frances-boyle/"><i>This Magazine</i>’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt for poetry</a> (with third place for fiction in the same year). Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Canadian and American literary magazines, both print and online, and anthologies on subjects from Hitchcock to form poetry to mother/daughter relationships. She serves on <i><a href="http://arcpoetry.ca/">Arc Poetry Magazine’s</a> </i>editorial board.<br /><br /><b>Dave Currie’s [pictured] </b><i>Birds Facts </i>is forthcoming from <a href="http://apt9press.wordpress.com/">Apt. 9 Press</a>, a sentence that fill him with bashful joy and quiet disbelief. His plays have been produced at the Ottawa Fringe Festival, Carleton University, Algonquin College and at small venues across the province. His origins in theatre transitioned into opportunities in television and film, most of which he accepted, performed adequately and then squandered.<br /><br />He is currently working on a new play entitled “Clone-Hitler Goes To The Beach” set to be performed in 2015 and a film script simply entitled “Women.” His fiction will be available in magazines – some day.<br /><br />Dave Currie is not now nor has he ever been a dog.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.writersunion.ca/member/stuart-ross">Stuart Ross</a> </b>published his first literary pamphlet on the photocopier in his dad’s office one night in 1979. Through the 1980s, he stood on Toronto’s Yonge Street wearing signs like “Writer Going To Hell,” selling over 7,000 poetry and fiction chapbooks. He is a founding member of the <a href="http://meetthepresses.wordpress.com/">Meet the Presses collective</a>, and is editor at Mansfield Press. He is the author of two collaborative novels, two story collections, eight poetry books, and the novel <i><a href="https://www.ecwpress.com/books/snowball-dragonfly-jew">Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew</a></i>. He has also published an essay collection, <i><a href="http://www.quillandquire.com/review/confessions-of-a-small-press-racketeer/">Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer</a></i>, and co-edited <i><a href="http://mansfieldpress.net/2011/09/rogue-stimulus-the-stephen-harper-holiday-anthology-for-a-prorogued-parliament/">Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament</a></i>. His most recent poetry book is <i><a href="http://mansfieldpress.net/2013/11/our-days-in-vaudeville-2/">Our Days in Vaudeville</a></i> (Mansfield Press), collaborations with 29 other poets from across Canada. Stuart has had three chapbooks published this year: <i>Nice Haircut, Fiddlehead </i>(<a href="http://www.puddlesofskypress.com/chapbooks.html">Puddles of Sky Press</a>), <i>A Pretty Good Year</i> (Nose in Book Publishing) and <i>In In My Dream </i>(Bookthug). Stuart is a member of the improvisational noise trio Donkey Lopez, whose first CD is <i>Juan Lonely Night</i>. <a href="http://bloggamooga.blogspot.ca/">He lives in Cobourg, Ontario</a>.<br /><br /> <b>[<a href="http://www.smallpressbookfair.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-ottawa-small-press-fair-twentieth.html">And don’t forget the 20th anniversary of the ottawa small press book fair, being held the following day at the Jack Purcell Community Centre</a>]</b></span>rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-67473289232689503092014-08-06T10:33:00.000-04:002014-08-06T16:38:05.766-04:00the ottawa small press fair, twentieth anniversary (fall) edition: november 8, 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:<br /><br /> the ottawa<br /> small press<br /> book fair<br /><br />autumn 2014 / TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION<br />will be happening Saturday, November 8, 2014 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).</b></span><br />
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contact rob at rob_mclennan@hotmail.com to sign up for a table, etc.<br />
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"once upon a time, way way back in October 1994, rob mclennan and 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 our original event, 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.<br />
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<b>General info:</b><br />
the ottawa small press book fair<br />
noon to 5pm (opens at 11:00 for exhibitors)<br />
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admission free to the public.<br />
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$20 for exhibitors, full tables<br />
$10 for half-tables<br />
(payable to rob mclennan, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9;<br />
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send by November 1 if you would like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue.<br />
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note: for the sake of increased demand, we are now offering half tables. for catalog, exhibitors should send name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered and any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any).<br />
<b><br />And don't forget the pre-fair reading usually held the night before, at The Carleton Tavern! (readers tba); also,<br /><br />BE AWARE: </b>given that the spring 2013 was the first to reach capacity (forcing me to say no to at least half a dozen exhibitors), the fair can't (unfortunately) fit everyone who wishes to participate. the fair is roughly first-come, first-served, but preference will be given to small publishers over self-published authors (being a "small press fair," after all).<br />
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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, Phafours Press, and others. happens twice a year, founded in 1994 by rob mclennan and James Spyker. now run by rob mclennan thru span-o. questions, rob_mclennan@hotmail.com<br />
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free things can be mailed for fair distribution to the same address. we are unable to sell things for folk who can't 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.rob mclennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07958889643637765864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310655720928389130.post-25937890758213913692014-05-26T14:46:00.000-04:002014-05-26T16:17:13.813-04:00the ottawa small press book fair / june 6-7, 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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this year's spring edition of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">the semi-annual ottawa small press book fair</b><b> </b>is shaping up to be one of the biggest ones yet. held on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">saturday, june 7, 2014 from noon to 5pm in room 203 of the jack purcell community centre</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(jack purcell lane, right <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">by gilmour street on elgin), the fair contains<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">the best of the small press in poetry, fiction, comic books and original artwork</b> from publishers, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">presses and authors in and around ottawa, with exhibitors regularly attending </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">from toronto, montreal, vancouver, the united states and beyond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;"><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">now in our twentieth year</b>, some of the exhibitors at our spring fair include a number of regulars, as well as friendly faces we don't get to see as often, including: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">40-Watt Spotlight, above/ground press, Ankle Bone Books, AngelHousePress, Apt. 9 Press,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Arc Poetry Magazine</i>, Cat & Bean Publishing, Black Radish Books, CC Brunelle, Martin Bueno, BuschekBooks,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Bywords</i>, Chaudiere Books, Editions du Rognon, Gesture Press, GiddyPigs, The Grunge Papers,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Hark! A Raven Little Magazine</i>, Hopelessly Heroic,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">In/Words magazine</i> & press, Loose Cannon Press, Luis Lama, Mansfield Press, Mary Kritz, Christian McPherson, Nous-zot Press,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Ottawa Arts Review</i>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Passion: Poetry Magazine</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>& Press, Pedlar Press, Phafours, Postscripts to Darkness, Proper Tales Press, Puddles of Sky Press, room 302 books, SABL Cartoon Creations, Salgood Sam, Silgerond Press, Sonderho Press, Superandom Comics, Tekst Editions,Trans-Verse Books and WILDWATERS PUBLISHING.</span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">and don't forget our pre-fair reading the night before, held at the carleton tavern in parkdale market!</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">lovingly hosted by rob mclennan</i>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">the event features readings and launches by Marthe Reed, David Menear, Chris Eaton, Renée Sarojini </b><b style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">Saklikar and Nicholas Power</b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">. for author bios, check here:</span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">for further information on either event (or both), contact book fair organizer and co-founder rob mclennan <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.719999313354492px;">at rob_mclennan@hotmail.com or 613 239 0337</span></b></div>
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<span class="fsl">The 5th Ottawa Zine Off is 7pm June 22nd! Make a zine
quick, bring copies to trade with others to Pressed at 7:00pm, meet
people who don't suck, immeasurably improve your life. Invite cool
people, because it'll probably be balls hot out!<br /> <br /> You don't have to make a zine to participate... but wouldn't it be cool if you did?<br /> </span><br />
<span class="fsl">Facebook Event: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/710558582339143/">https://www.facebook.com/events/710558582339143/</a><br /> Ott<span class="text_exposed_show">awa Zines group: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/382123018582469/" rel="nofollow"><span>https://www.facebook.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>groups/382123018582469/</a><br /> <br /> Here's all you ever wanted to know about this awesome night!<br /> <br /> Question: What's a zine?<br />
Answer: As wikipedia says, "a zine (pron.: /ˈziːn/ zeen; an
abbreviation of fanzine, or magazine) is most commonly a small
circulation self-published work of original and/or appropriated texts
and images usually reproduced via photocopier". Really though, zines are
a way of sharing stories, drawings, information, whatever you want with
other individuals. Be creative!<br /> <br /> Q: What's the Zine Off?<br /> A:
The Ottawa Zine-Off is a self-enforced communal deadline. Basically,
participants have a little over a month to create a zine. (Most people
procrastinate and do it in the last few days, natch) There is no penalty
for not making one, but really, the fun in having the night is seeing
how many awesome zinesters exist in Ottawa, so get working!<br /> <br /> On
Sunday June 22nd, those who have made a zine and anyone who would like
to come check them out can come hang out at Pressed for a night of
trading, reading and camaraderie. 15 - 25 copies is a good number!<br /> <br /> Q: What can my zine be about?<br />
A: Anything! Last time, we had zines featuring comix, poetry, stories,
how to read tea leaves, psychologically-manipulative office furnishing tips, travelogues, self-care
manuals, drawings...<br /> <br /> Q: Who can participate?<br /> A: Everyone! Invite your friends, neighbours, family, coworkers, mailperson, favorite barista, etc.<br /> <br /> Q: Is there a cost?<br />
A: No! The meetup event costs nothing, but feel free to support our
hosts Pressed by buying a drink or delicious sandwich. Participants can
ask for for a donation for their zine, but we encourage trading. At the
last few zine offs, zinesters traded copies amongst themselves instead
of exchanging money.<br /> <br /> Q: Can I be fashionably late?<br /> A: Sure,
but there won't be any zines left to trade. We strongly recommend
showing up at the listed start time, as seating is limited and people
usually start trading long before we tell them they're allowed.<br /> <br />
If you have any further questions, feel free to post them on the event
wall. Poster is coming soon, and we'll make copies available for
individuals who would like to promote the Zine-Off at their favourite
hang out spots...<br /> <br /> Now, MAKE A ZINE!</span></span><br />
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