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bibliography of ottawa literary magazines and presses,
Given the recent appearance of bins of material in our household, thanks to John White donating a wealth of materials from his late mother's library (the Ottawa poet Jane Jordan), I've been prodded to, yet again, attempt to track a history of Ottawa literary magazines and presses. Cameron Anstee did a write-up of Ottawa poetry anthologies in 2014 also worth looking at, and Pearl Pirie put together a more recent list of Ottawa literary activity. Consider this a work-in-progress (updates/corrections/additions welcome):
: Inscape (1959-1960; 1963-1970); short write-up via Archives and Research Collections, Carleton University; Blue R Hand Press (1961-1962); Cameron Anstee's short write-up; Nil Press (1961-1965); Cameron Anstee's short write-up; Something Else (1963); Cameron Anstee's short write-up; Bytown Books (1963); Cameron Anstee's short write-up; Commoners' Press (c. 1970s); 2016 interview with Neil Flowers, editor of Northern Comfort (1973); Northern Journey/Northern Journey Press (1971-1976); Golden Dog Press (1972-1985); short write-up via Archives and Research Collections, Carleton University; Valley Editions (1974-83); Ottawa Poetry News (1976); Sparks magazine (1977-8); 2015 interview and bibliography; Review Ottawa/Anthos magazine (1977-1988); short write-up via Archives and Research Collections, Carleton University; Stoney Monday (1978); Reenbou: revue plurilingue de poésie / plurilingual poetry magazine (1979); Ichor : a magazine of surreal prose (1980-1); University of Toronto Library holdings; The Carleton Literary Review/The Carleton Arts Review (1981-1997); Ouroboros (1982-1989); 2015 interview and bibliography; POP (Poésie Ottawa Poetry) (c. 1985); The Rideau River Review (1987-1988); 2016 interview and bibliography; Anthos Books (1988-1990); Bywords (1990-2001); hole magazine/hole books (c. 1990-1996); Drum: The Arts and Literary Quarterly of the University of Ottawa (1992); library listing; Ink magazine (1992-c. 1997); Hostbox (1992-1995); 2020 interview and bibliography; STANZAS magazine (1993-2006); my bibliography of STANZAS magazine; Hook & Ladder (1993-1997); 2015 interview and biography; GraffitiFish (1994-1997); 2015 interview and bibliography; graffito: the poetry poster (1994-2000); electronic archive; 2015 interview and bibliography; The Skinny (c. 1994-1996); Bad Moon Books (1995-2004); 2015 interview and bibliography; Friday Circle (1995-2006); website/archive; Grove Avenue Press (c. 1996-8); 2015 interview and bibliography; Missing Jacket (1996-1997); my bibliography/write-up; The Contemporary Journal of Literary Stuff (c. 1996-1997); 2016-7 interview and bibliography; Backwater Review (1997-1999); post-journal occasional reviews blog; 2015 interview and bibliography; Front&Centre (1999-2016); 2017 interview and bibliography; Dusty Owl Press (c. 2000-2006); Black Squirrel Press (c. 2000); Litwit Review (2000); Murderous Signs (2000-2007); 2015 interview and bibliography; Poetics.ca (2002-2007); website; modomnoc (c. 2003); camenae press (2002-3); Bywords Quarterly Journal (2003-2013); ottawater (2005-2020); website; The Moose & Pussy (2008-2012); 2016 interview and bibliography; seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (2008-2018); website; The Dusty Owl Press (c. 2009-2011); Amanda Earl's 2008 interview;
contemporary publications:
: Oberon Press (1966-); website; short write-up via Archives and Research Collections, Carleton University; Arc poetry magazine (1978-); website; 2010 "12 or 20 (small press) questions" with Anita Lahey; my 2014 profile at Open Book: Ontario; above/ground press (1993-); website; 2015 self-profile, "above/ground press at twenty-two," at Open Book: Ontario; Pooka Press (1994-); BuschekBooks (1995-); website; Apostrophe Press (1996-); In/Words Magazine and Press (2001-); website; my 2013 profile at Open Book: Ontario; The Peter F. Yacht Club (2003-); website; 2010 bibliography; 2015 profile at Open Book: Ontario; Chaudiere Books (2006-); website/blog; Ottawa Arts Review (2006-); website; AngelHousePress (2007-); website; 2010 "12 or 20 (small press) questions" with Amanda Earl; phafours press (2007-); website; 2014 profile at Open Book: Ontario; Experiment-o (2008-); website; Maple Tree Literary Supplement (2008-); website; Apt. 9 Press (2009-); website; 2010 "12 or 20 (small press) questions" with Cameron Anstee; 2011 profile at Open Book: Ontario; NationalPoetryMonth.ca (2009-); website; The Steel Chisel (2013-); website; Touch the Donkey (2014-); website; 2014 self-profile at Open Book: Ontario; LACKINGTON'S (2014-); website; shreeking violet press (2014-); website; Textualis Press (2015-); website; Hussy Press (2015-); website; Canthius [a literary journal] (2015-); website; 2016 interview at Queen Mob's Teahouse; Smidskade 9 Press (2016-); website; battleaxe press (2016-); website; horsebroke press (2016-); website; Absolutely Orbital (2016-); website; many gendered mothers (2017-); website; Pace (2017-); website; new untitled poetics journal (2020-); website forthcoming;
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