a brief note, in that space between the end of the ottawa international writers festival and the beginning of that long festival hangover:

span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents --

October 14, 7:30pm: a small press book fair teaser, with readings by Jay MillAr, Kristy McKay and Nathaniel G. Moore at mother tongue books, 1067 Bank Street (at Sunnyside). lovingly hosted by rob mclennan.

Jay MillAr is a writer, editor, publisher, bookseller and environmental research assistant. He is the author of The Ghosts of Jay MillAr (Coach House, 2000), and Mycological Studies (Coach House, 2002), which was shortlisted for the ReLit Poetry Prize, and False Maps for Other Creatures (Nightwood Editions / blewointment, 2005). He publishes chapbooks under the imprint BookThug and distributes these titles through Apollinaires Bookshoppe, his imaginary bookstore specializing in publications that no one wants to buy. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Hazel, and their sons, Reid and Cole.

K.L. McKay, Ottawa ex-pat via Northern Ontario, currently based in Edmonton, where she helps run the Olive reading and chapbook series. Editor of Spire Poetry Poster, a monthly poetry broadside series (www.spirepoetry.com). Her first chapbook of poetry, published jointly through the Univeristy of Ottawa Friday Circle Press and Spire Poetry Publications, will be celebrating its release at the Fall Ottawa Small Press Fair.

Nathaniel G. Moore is a Toronto writer and performance artist. His first solo trade book is the sports biography Bowlbrawl (Conundrum). His first book of poetry will be released with Pedlar Press in 2007. He is represented online courtesy of Notho Entertainment www.notho.net

October 15, noon to 5pm: the ottawa small press book fair, fall 2005 edition. founded in 1994 by myself & James Spyker, I've been running the fair twice a year since, from the National Library and Archives on Wellington Street, the Glebe Community Centre to its current home at the Jack Purcell Community Centre on Elgin Street, right beside the Gilmour Public School (on Jack Purcell Lane). free to the public ($15/table for exhibitors), the next fair will be happening Saturday, October 15th from noon to 5pm (starting at 11am for exhibitors). various exhibitors past & present include above/ground press, BookThug, Broken Jaw Press, Bywords, Dusty Owl Press, The Grunge Papers, ImPress, Matrix magazine, The Ottawa Literary Heritage Society, ottawater, The Peter F. Yacht Club, Proper Tales Press, room 302 books, Spire, the poetry poster, The TREE Reading Series, and University of Ottawa Press .

you know you want to. why do you keep on lying to yourself? for more info, bother me at 613 239 0337 or email az421@freenet.carleton.ca