New chapbook now available

Resting Directly on the Earth by Spencer Folkins is now available! 

About the book: 

The poems in Resting Directly on the Earth spring from a meditative appreciation of the natural world. Inspired by contemplation during walks in the woods, along roads and shores, and in the mountains, these poems explore themes of acceptance, identity, and more.

About the author: 

Spencer Folkins (he/him) is thinking about replacing all the text on a map with a poem. His writing has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, the Newfoundland Quarterly, The League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause series, The Woodlot, and in the chapbooks Poems for Burning (Gridlock Lit, 2024) and It’s Been a Fine Year (Anstruther Press, 2025). Spencer is a member of The Egg Poets, a poetry collective — their debut collaborative chapbook All Things to Keep You Here (2023) was published by Homerow, an imprint of QWERTY. He serves as a member of the AX: Arts & Culture Centre of Sussex Literary Committee. He is also a member of his local and Provincial Ground Search and Rescue Associations, in which he has served as President and Board Member (respectively). He teaches in his hometown.

Submissions Remain Closed

Ordinarily, Emergency Flash Mob Press opens submissions in September, but we have decided not to open them this September. Submissions are on hiatus while we retool and reimagine where we are heading for 2026. We aren't closing down, but scaling back for the near term. We apologize for the inconvenience. 

We have just recently released Jennifer Houle's poetry chapbook, Troposphere. And this week, we will be releasing Spencer Folkins' Resting Directly on the Earth. Contact us to order either or both! $10 each + $3 to ship one or $20 + $4 to ship both. 

Available Now! Troposphere by Jennifer Houle!

Order your copy now! Troposphere is limited to 60 copies. $10 + $3 to ship anywhere in Canada.

About the Book: 

Our efforts to contend with the weather connect us. These poems reflect on consciousness, language, and dream, exploring the ways time and space translate our lives as we contend with all types of inescapable weather.

About the author:

Jennifer Houle began publishing in Canadian literary journals in 2005, and is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, The Back Channels and Virga (Signature Editions). In 2017, The Back Channels won the J.M. Abraham East Coast Literary Award for best collection of poetry and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. In 2020, Virga received the Fiddlehead Poetry Prize from the New Brunswick Book Awards. Her first children’s book, Un logis pour Molly/A Home for Molly was published by Éditions Bouton d’Or Acadie in summer of 2022 in both French and English. A life-long Maritimer, she lives in Hanwell, New Brunswick.

The Year Ahead for Emergency Flash Mob (and Me)

New chapbooks! Another volume of the Compendium! And more content here! 

First of all, congratulations to Jamie Kitts! Her 2024 Emergency Flash Mob chapbook, Girl Dinner, made the Miramichi Reader's Best of 2024 list for poetry! Woohoo! Copies are still available if you want your very own copy. 

I have accepted new poetry chapbooks by Triny Finlay, Spencer Folkins, Rose Henbest, Jennifer Houle, and Ross Leckie for publication in 2025. Look for those through the year, with all available by the time poetry weekend rolls around (especially since most of the poets are from New Brunswick).

I’m still looking for my once yearly essay chapbook. Might you be a Canadian poet and have an essay on any aspect of poetry or poetics? Submission are always open for the Entrepôt Series! Get in touch!

Plans for a second volume of the NB Literary Compendium are underway. Subscribers are starting to re-up for 2025. There are a few scattered copies of a few of the issues from the first volume left... interested? Get in touch. 

As for me, I have two books being published in 2025, so it will be a busy year. The first is one I edited. A Great Cloud of Witnessing: Arts Journalism of Nancy Bauer is a collection of magazine and newspaper articles chronicling the arts scene in New Brunswick from the 1960s to the present day. The official publication date is January 7, but copies are available now. 

And this spring I have a new collection of poetry coming out with Gaspereau Press, Metadata from a Changing Climate. It’s one of the last books being done by Andrew Steeves before he hands operations over to Keegan Hawthorne. Andrew sent me the layout yesterday so I could see the direction he took as it was being sent to the first of two readers. Needless to say, beholding those pages was incredibly exciting! 

 

The Miramichi Reader reviews Girl Dinner by Jamie Kitts

Much thanks to The Miramichi Reader and reviewer Alison Manley for this wonderful review of Girl Dinner by Jamie Kitts! 

From the review: "This is an inventive collection, serious but also joyful in creating the form of each poem. If you can get your hands on a copy of this chapbook, it's more than worth your time to sit with it."

Copies are still available! You can e-transfer $13 ($10 + $3 shipping) to ian[dot]letourneau[at]icloud.com with your mailing address and Emergency Flashmob Press will mail you one anywhere in Canada! 

Submissions Open from September 1 - September 30!

Have a chapbook manuscript? Interested in Emergency Flash Mob Press? Please sent your 20-30 page poetry manuscript to emergencyflashmobpress@gmail.com with a cover letter including any pertinent information (a bit about yourself and the manuscript, your publication history, where you live, etc.). 

All manuscripts will get an acknowledgement of receipt and be read in October. 

Chapbook launch on April 20!

 Join us for the launch of out two new poetry chapbooks, John Barton's Stopwatch and Meghan Kemp-Gee's More!