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.
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 |
| Anvil Press | British Columbia |
| 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 |
| Beliveau Books | Ontario |
| Between the Lines | Ontario |
| bird, buried press | Ontario |
| Blank Cheque Press | British Columbia |
| Boulder Books | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Breakwater Books | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Brick Books | Ontario |
| broke press | British Columbia |
| Bywords.ca | Ontario |
| Canadian Small Change Association | Ontario |
| Canthius | Ontario |
| CAROUSEL | Ontario |
| Coach House Books | Ontario |
| Collusion Books | Nova Scotia |
| Crossfield Publishing | Ontario |
| 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 |
| Great Plains Publications | Manitoba |
| Grey Borders Books | Ontario |
| Guernica Editions | Ontario |
| House House Press | Quebec |
| Ice Floe Press | Ontario |
| Invisible Publishing | Ontario |
| Island Studies Press at UPEI | Prince Edward Island |
| J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc. | Manitoba |
| Kegedonce Press | Ontario |
| knife | fork | book | Ontario |
| Metatron Press | Quebec |
| Model Press | Ontario |
| Mother Tongue Publishing | British Columbia |
| Mythos & Ink Ltd. | Manitoba |
| n-o-b-o-d-y | Ontario |
| Nevermore Press, Ltd. / Trap Door Books | Nova Scotia |
| NeWest Press | Alberta |
| No press | Alberta |
| nOIR:Z visual poetry | Ontario |
| Noun Trivet Press | Quebec |
| Old Growth Press | Ontario |
| Open Heart Forgery | Nova Scotia |
| Orbis Tertius Press | Alberta |
| pagefiftyone | British Columbia |
| Parentheses Journal | Ontario |
| Pedlar Press | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| phafours press | Quebec |
| Poetry inPrint | Ontario |
| POPNOIR EDITIONS | Ontario |
| post ghost press | Ontario |
| Proper Tales Press | Ontario |
| Psycho Potato Press | Ontario |
| Radiant Press | Saskatchewan |
| 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 Hardscrabble Press | New Brunswick |
| The Porcupine’s Quill | Ontario |
| The Soap Box Press | Ontario |
| Thistledown Press | Saskatchewan |
| Vallum Magazine / Vallum Chapbook Series | Quebec |
| Véhicule Press | Quebec |
| Vocamus Press | Ontario |
| Whispering Wick Chapbook Press | Ontario |
| ZED Press | Ontario |
Kate Siklosi, Small Press Map Curator
Kate Siklosi lives, writes, weaves, sews, and thinks in Toronto. She has published five chapbooks of poetry and has two forthcoming collections: leavings (Timglaset, 2021) and selvage (Invisible, 2023). Her criticism has been featured in various journals and magazines including The Walrus and Canadian Literature, and her creative work has also been featured in various small press publications across North America, Europe, and the UK. She is the co-founding editor of Gap Riot Press, a feminist experimental poetry small press.