Please join us this weekend for the virtual
Meet the Presses Indie Lit Symposium! We're all hoping that next year we can do the fair (as well as the semi-annual ottawa small press book fair) in person again, but until then, the Meet the Presses collective has organized a whole slew of readings and talks from participants all across the country.
You can register at the link for the event here.
All events are free, with the option to donate if you wish. Please note that you only need to register once and we will send out a Zoom link to each event one hour before it begins. If you don't receive an email in your inbox, please check your spam and junk folders.
Meet the Presses is an all-volunteer literary collective devoted to organizing public events that showcase books, chapbooks, magazines, recordings, broadsheets, and ephemera produced by independent publishers of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. The collective continues in the spirit of the original Meet the Presses events begun 30 years ago in Toronto by Stuart Ross and Nicholas Power. The collective consists of Gary Barwin, Paul Dutton, Beth Follett, Stuart Ross, Aaron Tucker, Jacqueline Valencia, and Tali Voron. The Founding Members Emeritus are Maria Erskine, Ally Fleming, Maggie Helwig, Leigh Nash, and Nicholas Power.
You can learn more about the collective here.
Thursday, November 26, 2020bpNichol Chapbook Award Shortlist reading and Winner Announcement, 7-8pm EST
shorlisted titles:
Tolu Oloruntoba, Manubrium (Anstruther Press)
Oubah Osman, Hereditary Blue (Anstruther Press)
Emily Lu, Night Leaves Nothing New (Baseline Press)
Nisa Malli, Remitting (Baseline Press)Friday, November 27, 2020The Roots of Small Press, 7-8pm EST
with
above/ground press, Proper Tales Press, Book*Hug Press and
Coach House BooksSaturday, November 28, 2020The Future of Small Press, 12-1pm EST
with
Metatron Press, Gap Riot Press, Anstruther Press and
Knife Fork BookOutlaw Presses: Pushing the Boundaries of Small Press, 2-3pm ESTwith
No Press, Noir Z, The Blasted Tree, Simulacrum Press, AngelHouse Press and
Room 3o2 Books
Sunday, November 29, 2020Magazines and Journals, 12-1pm EST
with
CAROUSEL Magazine, Filling Station, These Days and
Augur MagazineSmall Press and the Craft of Bookmaking, 2-3pm ESTwith
Baseline Press, Puddles of Sky Press and
In Print Collective
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