Zine & Small Press Fair at SappyFest

Dear Zine Makers, Comic Folks, Small Press Book Publishers, and Makers
of Any Lovely Such Things:

You are cordially invited to show and sell your stuff at the third
annual SappyFest zine/small press/record/other things fair this
Saturday July 30th 2011, 12-5pm in Sackville, New Brunswick. This
event is presented in collaboration with the Anchor Archive Zine
Library.

Tables cost $20 (and you can share, or get a half table for $10).
Please note that the cost for the table does not include a ticket to
the music festival. The fair will be at the Royal Canadian Legion
on Lorne Street.

Please contact Sarah: zinecrafter@sappyrecords.com to book a table or
to ask questions. More info about the festival at www.sappyfest.com.

Meet the Presses SCREAMING Chapbook Market!

Meet the Presses SCREAMING Chapbook Market in Toronto!

Saturday, July 9 · 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Clinton's Tavern

693 Bloor Street West (near Christie subway)

Toronto, ON

The Meet the Presses collective celebrates the final Scream Festival with a stapled, folded, stitched, and trimmed chapbook market!

Including:


AngelHousePress (Ottawa)
Apt 9 Press (Ottawa)
BookThug (Toronto)
Emergency Response Unit (Toronto)
Gesture Press (Toronto)
Proper Tales Press (Cobourg)
Serif of Nottingham (Hamilton)
Underwhich Editions (Toronto)

and lots more presses from Ontario and perhaps further!


Some of us believe the chapbook is the natural and friendly form for publishing poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
Come join us and check out this stubborn resister of eBooks and spines!

A Book Affair : The Niagara Literay Arts Festival Book Fair

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

With guest presses and artists:

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

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

Small Press of Toronto Book Fair

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

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

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

the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2011;

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

OCAD zine fair - call for tablers

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

MEDIA RELEASE

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

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

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

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


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