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! 

New Chapbook Available!

The first chapbook of 2024 is now available! — John Barton’s Stopwatch! It includes two sonnet sequences and then more bonus sonnets — 24 sonnets in all. Look at those endpapers!

Limited to 100 copies and only $10! We can arrange local pick up in Fredericton or I can ship anywhere in Canada for an additional $3. Payment is by e-transfer (or cash if local). Contact for more information.

Recording of our November 26, 2023 event!

You can now listen to the recording from our November 26, 2023 launch!

Two reviews of Big Wilson!

Big Wilson has received two reviews recently!

Thanks to the fine folks at The Ampersand Review! Ashley Haynes has written a fine review of Big Wilson! She says, "The story of Big Wilson is raw and beautiful in the way that real life often is. It tells the story of someone going through all the honest and difficult moments of life, and really shines a light on the complex simplicity of being human."

Over at The Minerva Review back in October, Lisa de Nikolits says of Big Wilson: "I was swept along on a tidal wave of emotions, awestruck by the imagery, the sense of history, the power of place, the relevance of each human life." 

Copies of Big Wilson are still available!