Small Press

The small presses are absolutely essential in getting work into print that the big publishers won’t touch. It’s where you find the most originality and risk-taking, both essential to great writing.

The texts in this list are curated through my personal interest and recommendations from publishing companies, authors, and publicists. Please contact me with upcoming releases. Understand that I will only…

Over time, The Blasted Tree has increasingly featured odd and eccentric content that just doesn’t seem to belong elsewhere, projects that beg for an out-of-the-box take on publication format or materials.

I believe there’s a need to publish outside one’s comfort zone. At its core, publishing is about pushing boundaries, and expanding mindsets. And if our publishing is not doing either function for us, it is a signal for us to get our act together.

Some words we like to throw around are: generosity, materiality, love, emergence, multitexuality, book-as-object, pleasure, vernacular, and hybridity.

I see people constantly clinging to old models of success and status in the poetry world, and it seems archaic to me to step into this programming telling us who is important and what it means to be successful rather than simply creating our own spaces.

From the one ad we ran, we received 2,500 submissions the first 2 months and 6,000 in the four months that followed. We had enough to publish for a year or two and word of mouth carried us from there.

We’re influenced by the old school printers and their legacy of radical politics. The three of us love print and everything related to the medium, but we’re also committed to social justice.

Website Submission Guidelines Interview with Ken Hunt, Editor How did Spacecraft Press start? Spacecraft Press began in 2014, when I was having a conversation with derek beaulieu. We were talking…

We aim to produce fine books of the very best contemporary writing. Each season’s new titles features the cover artwork of a visual artist or illustrator. We strongly encourage women, writers of colour, LGBTQ writers, Indigenous writers, and writers with disabilities to submit. 

I wanted to find an approach that would encourage writers to promote their work while also creating an urgency for the reader. The answer was Disappearing Chapbooks. Collections with a shelf-life of 72hrs.

It’s hard to find a place if you don’t fit into those categories. Part of this is that small press publishing is generally unpaid or underpaid. To ask an already marginalized person to take on that type of unpaid labor is difficult, and it creates this cycle.

Our mission at Baobab Press is to utilize our decades of experience in the book industry to promote works of heart and substance that are relevant now and will remain relevant in the future.

Instead of seeing the world in such dualistic terms as East versus West, North versus South, we envision the gathering of the most progressive elements everywhere, and the publication of such a gathering in our list.