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Call for submissions: digital zines!
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Sheer Spite Press is currently open for submissions of zines to be distributed digitally (not in print at this time– out of shelf space!). All the details are in the form below (you can also access it here).
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coming soon: Ghost Town Trips, by Reece Steinberg
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I’m thrilled to announce that this winter, Sheer Spite Press will publish Ghost Town Trips: By Rail, Canoe, Bike, & Thumb, a collection of writing by Reece Steinberg, originally published in his zine Q For Treason. “I felt like this…
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How and Why to Run a Book and Zine Swap
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this text is also available as a digital or print zine! Introduction: In summers 2025 and 2026, Dick’s Lending Library and Sheer Spite Press have co-organized a book and zine swap in Parc Lafontaine in Montreal. Both years, it’s been an…
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Book Tour: The Politics of Lonely
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I am going on tour for my book The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard? Here’s where you can catch me, details on all the events are below: Sunday, August 30: reading at the closing event for Dick’s Lending…
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announcing the history zine series!
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I’m thrilled to announce the four projects selected for the zine series on 2SLGBTQIA+ history in “quebec”, funded by a Trellis microgrant from the English-Language Arts Network and selected by a jury of extremely cool and wise people. (note: I…
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how (and why) should I preorder an author’s book?
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As someone presently in the weird liminal phase of having a book that is announced and up for preorder, but not out for another 2 months, I have been thinking a lot about preorders! If you have a lot of…
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2SLGBTQIA+ “QC” history zines: Meet the project advisors!
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I’m thrilled to introduce the five project advisors who will be selecting projects for the series of four bilingual zines on 2SLGBTQIA+ history in so-called Quebec. They bring an abundance of experience across many types of artistic practice and I…
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Call for submissions: 2SLGBTQ+ history in “Quebec” // Appel à contributions : L’histoire 2SLGBTQ+ dans “Québec”
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cliquez ici pour passer à la version française Sheer Spite will be publishing series of four zines on 2SLGBTQ+ history in the region colonially known as the province of Quebec, each by a different author, and selected via an open…
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On writing The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?
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I have some pretty big Sheer-Spite-adjacent news: I (Lee, who runs Sheer Spite) have a book coming out, and I’m not publishing it myself??? The book is called The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard? and it is…
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new book: Trying Unfathomably Hard to Live: Notes on the First Year of a Stroke, by Alyssa Favreau
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In the quiet days over the turning of the year, a new book was born! While biking to work one summer morning, Alyssa Favreau gets in an accident, has a stroke, and suffers severe brain damage. After losing consciousness, she…