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Apt. 9 Press is thrilled to announce two new chapbooks, due November 2012. We will be publishing the debut chapbook from Ottawa-based Rachael Simpson, Eiderdown, as well as new collection of poems by the one-and-only Phil Hall, A Rural Pen. Those paying attention in Ottawa have been aware of Rachael Simpson during the last fewContinue reading “New Chapbooks | Phil Hall and Rachael Simpson”

Ah, so much good news to share with the world. The finalists for the 2012 Archibald Lampman Award were announced yesterday, and we were thrilled to see two Apt. 9 authors on the shortlist of four: Michael Blouin for Wore Down Trust and Sandra Ridley for Post-Apothecary, both published by the inimitable Pedlar Press. Post-ApothecaryContinue reading “September Updates”

So at last the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair is upon us. Apt. 9, after an appropriate nine months of silence, is back with our first new publication of 2012. Keys to the Idiot is a broadside from Ottawa poet Bardia Sinaee. I’ve discussed Bardia’s work previously at my own blog. His own Odourless PressContinue reading “Small Press Book Fair Prep / Bardia Sinaee”

 

rob mclennan recently published a piece profiling five Canadian small and micro presses for Australian magazine Cordite Poetry Review. Apt. 9 is thrilled to be included in the list alongside The Emergency Response Unit, AngelHousePress, Nomados Literary Publishers, and Greenboathouse Press. Read the entire piece here. We look up to each of these presses forContinue reading “Notes on Five Canadian Small (micro) Publishers”

Stuart Ross will be in Ottawa to launch You Exist. Details Follow. on Wednesday 18 April 2012, 7:30pm at Raw Sugar along with the new lineup of Mansfield Press titles (including a reading by jwcurry of Nelson Ball’s new title!). That sentence includes so many of Apt. 9’s favourite things that I don’t even knowContinue reading “April Notes”

As Apt. 9 continues to hibernate and scheme, the writers we have been lucky enough to publish since 2009 have continued to go about their awesome writing and publishing business. Some news: Claudia Coutu Radmore, recent 2011 bpNichol Chapbook Award Winner (for which the reprint is in process), has taken part in the rob mclennan-curatedContinue reading “Assorted Notes”

Apt. 9 woke up this morning to some wonderful news: Claudia Coutu Radmore has just won the 2011 bpNichol Chapbook Award for her Apt. 9 title Accidentals. We couldn’t be happier for Claudia. It is a wonderful book deserving of the award (if we do say so ourselves!), and Claudia is simply a great personContinue reading “Claudia Coutu Radmore | bpNichol Chapbook Award”

Despite the press going on an unofficial hiatus as of the end of August, there has been some activity to keep track of around the press. rob mclennan wrote a generous and thoughtful profile of Apt. 9 that was published at Open Book: Ontario today. He sent me a few questions over email concerning theContinue reading “Notes: Profile, Interview, Book Fair”