span-o (the small press action network – ottawa) will present the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2013 edition on June 15 in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane).
Held twice a year since 1994, the fair usually contains exhibitors with poetry books, novels,cookbooks, posters, t-shirts, graphic novels, comic books, magazines, scraps of paper, gum-ball machines with poems, 2x4s with text, etc, including (at previous events) Bywords, Dusty Owl, Chaudiere Books, above/ground press, Room 302 Books, The Puritan, The Ottawa Arts Review, Buschek Books, The Grunge Papers, Broken Jaw Press, BookThug, Proper Tales Press, Phafours Press, and others.
Register to have a table by June 1 if you would like to appear in the exhibitor catalogue. Exhibitors should send name of press, address, email, web address, contact person, type of publications, list of publications (with price), if submissions are being considered & any other pertinent info, including upcoming ottawa-area events (if any).
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