news from sheer spite press

  • Book Tour: Ghost Town Trips by Reece Steinberg

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    We’re thrilled to celebrate the launch of Reece Steinberg’s Ghost Town Trips: By Rail, Canoe, Bike, & Thumb: From hopping trains to British Columbia ghost towns, to canoe-camping on the Yukon River, to hitchhiking in rural Syria: Reece Steinberg’s travels have taken him to off-grid places few people get to see. Traveling without a cell…

  • 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).

  • 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 was the essence of how I wanted to live my life— bike through beautiful areas,…

  • 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 extremely chill and pleasant event. I hope we’ll keep doing it, and I also hope…

  • 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 Library’s pop-up at Articule (more info) Fri/Sat Sep 11-12: tabling at the Halifax Art Book…

  • 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 still need a name for the series. Send me your suggestions (need to work well…