Author Archives: Cameron Anstee

Finally available for purchase is the dos-a-dos broadside Apt. 9 published in the Fall, featuring a poem each by jesslyn delia smith and Jeff Blackman. Read more about it here, and purchase it at Etsy here .

Apt. 9 is very excited to announce the publication of Elisha May Rubacha’s too much nothing. Rubacha is the editor and publisher of Peterborough’s bird, buried press and her contributions to the arts scene in her city recently put her on the shortlist for Peterborough’s Outstanding Emerging Artist Award. Apt. 9 loves to publish people who spendContinue reading “Now Available: too much nothing by Elisha May Rubacha”

Now available for purchase online, Gil McElroy’s Sum: Word Maps.

New from Apt. 9 Press, Gil McElroy’s Sum: Word Maps. Available next Saturday (November 18) at Meet the Presses Indie Literary Market in Toronto, Ottawa’s Small Press Book Fair on November 25, and online through our website thereafter. More details to follow.      

New from Apt. 9 Press, derek beaulieu’s “a readymade dictionary.“! Available for purchase this weekend at the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair (June 24, 12:00-5:00pm, Jack Purcell), and online thereafter.

Now available from Apt. 9 Press, Phil Hall’s An Egregore:

It was very kind of Ben Ladouceur to ask me some questions about Apt. 9 and small press things, and to let me ramble on in my answers. Thanks Ben, and thanks Open Book for publishing it! The Same Aspirations Persist: An Interview with Cameron Anstee, editor of Apt. 9 Press “In 2016, three ofContinue reading “Interview, Open Book”

Thanks to Alan Neal for having me on the show to speak about Nelson Ball and Small Waterways. Listen back to the whole show here. Nelson Ball's award-winner, held by Cameron Antsee, is sold out. He says get Chewing Water instead. @mansfieldpress pic.twitter.com/K5H2egG9rT — Alan Neal (@alannealottawa) November 22, 2016  

Apt. 9 Press is thrilled to be able to say that Nelson Ball has won the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award for his chapbook Small Waterways, published by Apt. 9 Press in 2015. Read the full press release here. Congratulations, Nelson! Beyond our excitement at Nelson winning, the award feels especially resonant given Nelson’s long relationshipContinue reading “Nelson Ball wins the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award!”

Apt. 9 Press will be present at the upcoming Ottawa Small Press Book Fair on Saturday, June 18th. Sadly, I will not be personally present (though for exciting reasons; I’ll be speaking at this conference in Montreal). Jeff Blackman (poet, friend, father, neighbour, gardener, and publisher of Horsebroke Press), will be running a half-Apt. 9,Continue reading “Small Press Book Fair, Reviews”