The language arts as a medium for weaving the social fabric of our world.
We honour the messy, unfinished, and flawed ongoingness of art. Against the perfection of the finely wrought, we value work with gaps that hold a place to enter.
Our press is a home to literary forms that are uneven, tentative, playful, incohesive, strange, menopausal, queer, uncontained. A fountain pen exploded on the page as we took notes. Our writing is always interrupted — by children we love, by domestic labour, unwaged, by waged labour, unloved, by news feeds, by anxiety, by illness, by crises personal and global — our messy lives smear across the pulped fibres upon which we document our story in jagged words and inky spills, in what overflows our expressive containers.
We believe the language arts are a medium for weaving the social fabric of our world. We learn together through story, poetry, conversation, gossip — connecting writers to readers, empowering everyone to think of themselves as both.
Our work moves in a circle: from workshop to publication to launch, and back to workshop again, with reading clubs that gather around each new book.
Workshops on zines, autoethnographic prose poetry, manifesto writing, editing for publication. Some at the Feminist Research Lab on the UW campus, some at pop-up sessions in your local cafe. Crafting supplies, a sewing machine, and knitting needles always on hand. Tired of words? Make a collage.
Experimental poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in beautifully made limited-run editions. A portion of every year's titles is by emerging writers. The single author is the starting point — the first runner in the relay; the manuscript is a baton passed to the next writer.
With each publication, we host reading club gatherings to deepen engagement and invite reader responses in the form of more writing. The reading club is not an audience for the author; it is the next set of writers learning their craft in public.
Principles for Surviving the Collapse of Capitalism is a collaboratively authored book that began as a reading group on Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century and grew, over a series of creative writing workshops, into a counter-set of lessons for our current moment — written from a feminist, queer, anti-racist, and disability justice point of view.
We will launch the book in July 2026 with an interactive event at Inter Arts Matrix in Kitchener. You are invited.
We're launching in summer 2026. Subscribe for workshop announcements, reading club invitations, calls for submissions, and news of forthcoming books. The first one is on its way.
