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NANAIMO! win your way in to our next event! buy (or order) your copy of missed connections with tall girls & send us a photo of your receipt - we’ll enter you into a draw for FREE ADMISSION to Gwen Aube’s reading with dalton derkson on october 24. full details on instagram or send a dm
📣 Writers and artists on Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, Bella Coola and the Gulf Islands! Submit short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction or art for Sea & Cedar’s 2027 issue by Sept. 30, 2026: https://virl.bc.ca/read-watch-listen/audience/adults/sea-cedar-magazine/submissions/
don't forget: this fall's ottawa small press book fair (32 years!) is Nov 14, 2026! with our usual pre-fair reading at Anina's Cafe on Nov 13 / @arcpoetry.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @meetthepresses.bsky.social smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2026 edition: November 14, 2026
span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: the ottawa small press book fair autumn 2026 : will be held on Satur...
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friendly reminder that if you’re worried about cultural decline you can just pick up a book published by a small press and feel way better
we’ll be in #victoria next weekend for SMALL PRESS FEST, 11-4 pm on saturday september 26!! we’ll have chapbooks for sale thru both the press & the distro. stop by if you’re in vic, we’d love to see you!
new issue feat. real art about ai, including new writing from Gwen Aube, Justin Million & Ether Vincent, Lil Drew's drawings, and a comic by @nickyflowers.com www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4...
two amazing readings from Cynthia DeConinckSmith & Bailey Bellosillo last nite at GRUB STREET!
Ottawa, the Real Surreal Poetry Crawl September 12 at 1:30 pm. Book Bazaar, 417 Bank Web: tinyurl.com/ottawatherealsurreal Email: amanda@amandaearl.com a free event sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets w/ Bandukwala, Chang-Richardson, Earl, mclennan to celebrate the LCP's 60th anniversary.
Ottawa, the real surreal: a poetry crawl
Ottawa, the real surreal: a poetry crawl Saturday, September 12, 2026 1:30 to 3:30pm with Manahil Bandukwala, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Amanda Earl & rob mclennan. a League of Canadian Poets 60 events...
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tonite! poetry in nanaimo! good times guaranteed, door prizes possible (for open mic readers). 6pm at the vault!
a square house@asquarehouse.bsky.social · last mo.the next GRUB STREET reading series is coming up this saturday september 12 at the vault nanaimo! readings followed by an open mic. see you there, 6-8 PM
the next GRUB STREET reading series is coming up this saturday september 12 at the vault nanaimo! readings followed by an open mic. see you there, 6-8 PM
Give our regards to Lee -- a little something extra is a great read. "I couldn't tell you the first thing about me if you asked."
a square house@asquarehouse.bsky.social · 7mo agoNEW from the press! we’re excited to launch Lee Groen’s debut chapbook, A Little Something Extra, as part of the next GRUB STREET reading series friday april 3, 6-8 pm @ the vault nanaimo
amazing turnout last night at the vault in nanaimo! shout out to featured readers Masha Zhaksybek + Lee Groen, and big big thanks to everyone who signed up to read at the open mic! see you at the next GRUB STREET reading series 🐛
the next GRUB STREET reading series is coming up april 3rd at the vault #nanaimo! open mic following featured readers Lee Groen + Masha Zhaksybek. + chapbooks and zines available for purchase, door prizes for open mic readers. bring your notebook!
NEW from the press! we’re excited to launch Lee Groen’s debut chapbook, A Little Something Extra, as part of the next GRUB STREET reading series friday april 3, 6-8 pm @ the vault nanaimo
the next GRUB STREET reading series is coming up april 3rd at the vault #nanaimo! open mic following featured readers Lee Groen + Masha Zhaksybek. + chapbooks and zines available for purchase, door prizes for open mic readers. bring your notebook!
When AI can generate this, I give up. Until then G-d keep the brave men et al maintaining Discordia
A “no loads refused” publishing orgy
Here's how indie publishing really works and what one city's extreme lit mag craze can tell us about the scene as a whole
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big things on the way from yr favourite nanaimo chapbook makers!
jesslyn delia@jlyndelia.bsky.social · 8mo agook time to listen to some phil ochs then walk down to the bar to talk about poetry
the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
the schedule for the sixteenth annual edition of VERSeFest : Ottawa's International Poetry Festival is now online!
March 24-30, 2026: readings and performances in English and French (and Polish!) by Marie-Célie Agnant, Olivia Tapiero, Sanita Fejzic, Melis...
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Buy this before i buy them all
a square house@asquarehouse.bsky.social · 8mo agonew from the press: cartoon yrself - dalton derkson our first publication is dalton derkson's umpteenth chapbook. "cartoon yrself" is a riff on dennis lee's "riffs" (1993) & in the short collection dalton wrestles with the rarest of poetry's muses: loss, longing & language. info: asquarehouse.ca
new from the press: cartoon yrself - dalton derkson our first publication is dalton derkson's umpteenth chapbook. "cartoon yrself" is a riff on dennis lee's "riffs" (1993) & in the short collection dalton wrestles with the rarest of poetry's muses: loss, longing & language. info: asquarehouse.ca
see you tonight at the vault! Elke Sorensen + Taylor Fleming 6-8 PM - open mic - $5 or PWYC
a square house@asquarehouse.bsky.social · 9mo agoour first ever reading series GRUB STREET is happening one week from today at the vault!! featuring Elke Sorensen & Taylor Fleming, + poetry open mic (with door prizes) to follow. hope we see you there!
These events listings are from The Hub Nanaimo, your weekly insider guide to the best of community arts and culture. thediscourse.ca/nanaimo/even...
Events in Nanaimo for the week of Jan. 15 to 21, 2026 – The Discourse.
These events listings are from The Hub Nanaimo, your weekly insider guide to the best of community arts and culture.
thediscourse.ca
big thanks to lauryn @chly.ca for this awesome write-up! get acquainted w/ a square house & get ready for the inaugural GRUB STREET here:
CHLY 101.7FM@chly.ca · 9mo agoLocal poetry press creating space for indie, alternative and local writers. Listen—or read more—at www.chly.ca/news in #Nanaimo. Broadcasting on the Salish Sea.
v excited to feature Elke Sorensen & Taylor Fleming this friday at the vault for the first GRUB STREET reading series! details: asquarehouse.ca/grub-street/
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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our first ever reading series GRUB STREET is happening one week from today at the vault!! featuring Elke Sorensen & Taylor Fleming, + poetry open mic (with door prizes) to follow. hope we see you there!
