Small Press Interactive Map
Canadian poet and small press publisher bpNichol once said, “Supporting small press is supporting literature on the cutting edge. Small press is the guardian of literary culture and free speech.” At its heart, small press is about experimentation and community-building. It began as a cost-effective means of circulating innovative, fringe literatures, and in many ways, this scrappy, humble tradition has been preserved while also inviting new approaches to the craft, from the basement-produced zine to the carefully handcrafted, formally-interested art object. These presses meet the public with vulnerability, craft, and risk: in so doing, they create space for many to publish their first works—a space to try, fail, sit with, be awkward and proud in. Perhaps above all, small press is a labour of love: there is little to no money in it, and it is labour-intensive. Nonetheless, it remains labour undertaken by a fierce community who is hungry for creative engagement and exchange, and for amplifying the voices of others.
This map, while not exhaustive of the small presses currently in existence in Canada, gives a taste of the ephemera and wonder on offer across the country. Happy reading!
—Kate Siklosi, Co-Founding Editor, Gap Riot Press

1cent | Ontario |
above/ground press | Ontario |
Anchorage Press | New Brunswick |
AngelHousePress | Ontario |
Anstruther Press | Ontario |
Apt. 9 Press | Ontario |
Arc Poetry Magazine | Ontario |
At Bay Press | Manitoba |
BAD BOOKS Press (an extension of BAD NUDES Magazine) | Quebec |
Baseline Press | Ontario |
battleaxe press | Ontario |
bird, buried press | Ontario |
Blank Cheque Press | British Columbia |
Breakwater Books | Newfoundland and Labrador |
Bywords.ca | Ontario |
Canthius | Ontario |
CAROUSEL | Ontario |
Coach House Books | Ontario |
Collusion Books | Nova Scotia |
Curvd H&z | Ontario |
DC Books / Railfare DC Books | Quebec |
DOCUMENTS in Expanded Poetics | Quebec |
Dumagrad Books | Ontario |
Fish Gotta Swim Editions | British Columbia |
Floodlight Editions | Ontario |
Gap Riot Press | Ontario |
Gaspereau Press | Nova Scotia |
Goose Lane Editions | New Brunswick |
Gordon Hill Press | Ontario |
Guernica Editions | Ontario |
House House Press | Quebec |
Insomniac Press | Ontario |
Invisible Publishing | Ontario |
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc. | Manitoba |
Kegedonce Press | Ontario |
knife | fork | book | Ontario |
Metatron Press | Quebec |
Mythos & Ink Ltd. | Manitoba |
Nevermore Press, Ltd. / Trap Door Books | Nova Scotia |
nOIR:Z visual poetry | Ontario |
Open Heart Forgery | Nova Scotia |
Orbis Tertius Press | Alberta |
pagefiftyone | British Columbia |
Parentheses Journal | Ontario |
Pedlar Press | Newfoundland and Labrador |
Poetry inPrint | Ontario |
POPNOIR EDITIONS | Ontario |
post ghost press | Ontario |
Rahila’s Ghost Press | British Columbia |
Room 3o2 Books | Ontario |
Sad Girl Review | British Columbia |
Screamin’ Skull Press | Manitoba |
shreeking violet press | Ontario |
Signature Editions | Manitoba |
Simulacrum Press | Ontario |
TesserActual ArteFactory | Ontario |
The Blasted Tree Publishing Co. | Alberta |
The Porcupine’s Quill | Ontario |
Vallum Magazine / Vallum Chapbook Series | Quebec |
Véhicule Press | Quebec |
Vocamus Press | Ontario |
ZED Press | Ontario |