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literature, art, ephemera, etc.

📚poetry press + distro
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asquarehouse.bsky.social
as a zine distro & small press, we love this theme. send them yr work!
scrivener1980.bsky.social Scrivener Creative Review @scrivener1980.bsky.social · 5d
It's happening: submissions for issue 48 are officially open. Submit now — tinyurl.com/scrivener48.
February 5, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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Money is a living thing, with G-d given wisdom
"O life how it dies and grows on trees," says Jeff Blackman.
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February 3, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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thesedayszine.bsky.social
Buy this before i buy them all
asquarehouse.bsky.social a square house @asquarehouse.bsky.social · 9d
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
image of a red chapbook cover with title “CARTOON YRSELF” and author “dalton derkson” in an off-white font. cover is overlaid on a faded background of various animation and cartoon books.
January 31, 2026 at 11:30 PM
asquarehouse.bsky.social
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
image of a red chapbook cover with title “CARTOON YRSELF” and author “dalton derkson” in an off-white font. cover is overlaid on a faded background of various animation and cartoon books.
January 31, 2026 at 9:59 PM
asquarehouse.bsky.social
see you tonight at the vault!

Elke Sorensen + Taylor Fleming
6-8 PM - open mic - $5 or PWYC
asquarehouse.bsky.social a square house @asquarehouse.bsky.social · Jan 9
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!
image of event poster: coloured newsprint style background. black text on white backing reads: “a square house press presents: GRUB STREET, nanaimo’s newest reading series : featuring Elke Sorensen / Taylor Fleming / + open mic for poems! fiction! yr diary?!? / jan 16, 6-8 pm at the vault five bux (notaflof)
January 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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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.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:15 AM
asquarehouse.bsky.social
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.ca CHLY 101.7FM @chly.ca · 27d
Local 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.
Local poetry press creating space for indie, alternative and local writers
Getting published can be a dream come true for many writers and poets....
www.chly.ca
January 14, 2026 at 1:36 AM
asquarehouse.bsky.social
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/
Taylor Fleming is a fifth-year Creative Writing and Journalism student at VIU, and a co-Managing Editor for the 2026 issue of Portal Magazine. Her writing has appeared in Portal, GOOEY, and in the poetry anthology Winter’s Melody and the short fiction anthology Drift. She received the Kevin Roberts Poetry Award in 2024 and the Meadowlarks Award for Fiction in 2025. She has been shortlisted for Polar Expressions Publishing’s national writing competition twice, where she placed second with her short fiction piece, “A Slow Rot.” She is an editor for GOOEY Magazine’s third issue and served as secretary for The Navigator’s Board of Directors in 2025. Elke Sorensen is a Creative Writing and Media Studies student at Vancouver Island University. She comes from Maple Ridge, BC, and is published in Cabin Radio, The Navigator, The Vintage Seeker, Healthy Debate, and Portal Magazine. She produces the podcast Elke’s on the Island for The Navigator, and hosts Likely Story on CHLY 101.7FM. Elke’s poetry collection on Bedbugs won her a 2025 CREATE! award. She is also the recipient of the 2024 Barry Broadfoot award for Journalism, and 2025 Gisele Merlet Writing Award. After graduation, Elke plans to move to the Northwest Territories to immerse herself in the stories of Northern Canadian communities.
January 12, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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literaryhub.bsky.social
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

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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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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
asquarehouse.bsky.social
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!
image of event poster: coloured newsprint style background. black text on white backing reads: “a square house press presents: GRUB STREET, nanaimo’s newest reading series : featuring Elke Sorensen / Taylor Fleming / + open mic for poems! fiction! yr diary?!? / jan 16, 6-8 pm at the vault five bux (notaflof)
January 9, 2026 at 11:38 PM
asquarehouse.bsky.social
the secret to being a small poetry press is that...
funeralpig.bsky.social wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · Dec 19
anyone can release a book of poetry, they can't stop you, poets have no regulating body
December 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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amandaearl.bsky.social
Dear current & former Ottawa students, residents & workers, I warmly invite you to send poems to Bywords.ca for our January 2026 issue. The deadline is December 15, 2025 & all the details are on Bywords.ca under Guidelines, but you can ask me questions at any time: [email protected]. Happy December!
Wall calendar open to December 2025 with a photo of a red cardinal. Dec 15 has been marked with a glowy red orb. TEXT: poems by 251215 for 2601 issue Please. Bywords.ca
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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robmclennan.bsky.social
THIS WEEKEND! CELEBRATING THIRTY-ONE YEARS OF THE OTTAWA SMALL PRESS BOOK FAIR!

TOMORROW:
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TONIGHT! The Factory Reading Series pre-small press book fair reading, Stuart Ross, Liam Burke + Amanda Earl,
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November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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jlyndelia.bsky.social
dalton & i started a little poetry press + distro! we’re hosting our first reading series and open mic in january (details to come) 🐒

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November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM