Three Cheers for Small Press!

The Meet the Presses INDIE LITERARY MARKET on November 29 was a blast.

Thanks so much to all the participating publishers:

BookThug
Coach House Books
Cormorant Books
ECW Press
Exile Editions
Existere
Gesture Press
Insomniac Press/4 a.m.
learn/yeats & co
Mansfield Press
One Hour Empire
Pedlar Press
Playwrights Canada Press
Proper Tales Press/Peter O’Toole
Rampike
serif of nottingham editions
The Emergency Response Unit
The Expert Press
The Mercury Press
The Porcupine’s Quill
The Puritan
Twoffish Press
Um, Yeah Press
Underwhich Editions
White Wall Review
Wolsak & Wynn

and especially to all the enthusiastic members of the public who turned out for this event. Thanks, too, for emptying your pockets in the name of indie Can-lit!

Click here to view photos from the Indie Literary Market.

Stay tuned in the new year for more events devised and put on by the Meet the Presses collective.

If you’d like to join our email list, just drop us a note at meetthepresses@gmail.com.

Looking forward to seeing you …

today, Nov. 29, at the Indie Literary Market, Toronto’s only all-literary indie-publisher showcase! You’ll find cutting-edge fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction from some of the most exciting, challenging publishers in Canada. 

Admission is free. Clinton’s has a great selection of food and drink for purchase.

Date: Saturday, November 29
Time: 12pm to 5pm
Location: Clinton’s tavern (back room), 693 Bloor St. W

Participating presses and magazines include:

BookThug
Coach House Books
Cormorant Books
ECW Press
Exile Editions
Existere
Gesture Press
Insomniac Press/4 a.m.
learn/yeats & co
Mansfield Press
Mercury Press
One Hour Empire
Pedlar Press
Peter O’Toole
Playwrights Canada
Proper Tales Press
Rampike
serif of nottingham editions
The Emergency Response Unit
The Puritan
Twaddle
Twoffish Press
Um, Yeah Press
Underwhich Editions
White Wall Review
Wolsak & Wynn 

Come meet dozens of local literary presses and directly purchase publications that may not be readily available (or available at all!) in bookstores. Get started on your holiday shopping!

Indie Literary Market – One Week Away

Meet the Presses Indie Literary Market

Meet the Presses Indie Literary Market

Come meet dozens of Toronto’s best literary publishers of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction! Literary books, chapbooks, broadsides and recordings for sale – including lots of stuff you’ll never find in stores!

Saturday, November 29
noon – 5 pm

Clinton’s Tavern (rear room)
693 Bloor St. W
Just one block east of Christie Subway Station

Free admission! Cash bar! Great food!

For more info, click here.

Meet the Presses is a new, all-volunteer collective devoted to promoting micro, small and independent literary presses within the Greater Toronto Area. This new collective has come together in the spirit of the original Meet the Presses event begun in Toronto in the mid-80s by Nicholas Power and Stuart Ross.

Members of the new Meet the Presses organize a variety of curated public events that interest them, and all the events focus on independent publishers of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.

Meet the Presses’ flagship event is a literary market focused on sales of literary books, chapbooks, magazines, and recordings. Meet the Presses Indie Literary Market is a curated event – that is, the participating publishers are chosen by the Meet the Presses collective. The Indie Literary Market gives the public an opportunity to meet local literary presses and directly purchase publications that may not be readily available (or available at all!) in bookstores and other commercial outlets.

This new incarnation of Meet the Presses – an unfunded and non-profit collective – was founded by five former coordinators of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair and four local writers and small pressers.

The collective consists of Gary Barwin, Paul Dutton, Maria Erskine, Ally Fleming, Beth Follett, Maggie Helwig, Leigh Nash, Nicholas Power, and Stuart Ross.