some author activity: Barwin, Hancock, McNair, Ladouceur + Fisher Small Press Fair: a report,

Gary Barwin writes on the work of Nico Vassilakis over at Jacket2; Brecken Hancock features at In/Word's The Reading Series in Ottawa on September 25 (Clocktower Pub, 575 Bank Street, 9pm); Christine McNair and Ben Ladouceur get mentions over at the Toronto Book Dump; and Ryan Pratt was good enough to mention above/ground press (among other presses, such as BookThug) in the report he posted over at his blog on the Fisher Small Press Fair we recently participated in at the University of Toronto.

some author activity: Ackerson-Kiely, Poe, Smith, Earl, Wilkinson

Paige Ackerson-Kiely is on the "23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry in 2013" list over at Flavorwire (and keep an eye out for her next Ottawa reading: October 21 at The Carleton Tavern as part of The Factory Reading Series, alongside Kate Greenstreet and D.J. Dolack); Deborah Poe and Jessica Smith each have short essays as part of the "Women Looking at Vispo" section of The Volta, guest-edited by Nico Vassilakis; Amanda Earl is interviewed for an article on Bywords.ca for Jam Jar Words; and Joshua Marie Wilkinson has two short films posted up at Omniverse, the blog of Omnidawn.