Emergency Flash Mob Press

10/19/2024

A review! Woohoo! See our latest post about it and general website updates

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

08/31/2024

Submissions open in September!

Have a chapbook manuscript? Interested in Emergency Flash Mob Press? Please sent your 20-30 page poetry manuscript to emergencyflashmobpress...

05/23/2024

A new release!

Emergency Flash Mob is excited to announce the publication of Danny Jacobs’ Dreamland: The Bishop House Fragments!

Part memoir, part journey through Bishop’s poetry (and that’s only two parts!) Dreamland is the second entry in the Entrepôt series, one essay chapbook per year that deals with poetics, craft, or other engagement with poetry by a Canadian poet.

Submissions are always open for this series — the 2025 slot is open!

Available now! $10 local or add $3 shipping. E-transfer to [email protected] or email me at that address with any questions!

Please share and spread the word!

11/29/2023

Thanks to the Ampersand Review for the review of Big Wilson by Mark Sampson! https://theampersandreview.ca/chapbooks-reviews/bigwilsonbymarksampson?fbclid=IwAR2CWlZrphTfPI0mdlyMmq0eAv2SnvN6vvMJ1xxyClWXl304QUEfGtlTI_g

MARK SAMPSON, BIG WILSON. Fredericton, NB: EMERGENCY FLASH MOB PRESS, 2023. $10.00. Big Wilson is a thoughtful, moving collection of poems about becoming your own person while living in the quiet Canadian provinces. The poems follow Big Wilson (don’t call him Dickie) as he ages from a child an

10/13/2023

I’m all ready for the local author book fair this Saturday, 10-3pm, at the Fredericton Public Library! Come listen to some readings and pick up free broadside/pamphlets!
1 — Lily Smallwood
2 — Forrest Orser
3 — Rebecca Salazar

Our chapbooks will also be available for purchase.

10/02/2023

Our next event! I’ll have our 3 chapbooks for sale + 3 free broadsides available and the poets will be there to read the poems!

09/16/2023

Now available for order! Mark Sampson’s Big Wilson. A limited edition of 100 copies. $10 (+$3 to ship anywhere in Canada).

We’ll have a table at the upcoming UNB Poetry Weekend (Sept 30-Oct 1) and Author Fair at the Fredericton Public Library on Oct 14 (10-3).

Here’s a description:
Music and literature collide in this long poem about grief, loss, and the family bonds that constrain us as much as they hold us together. The hero of this narrative-in-verse rejects the siren call of the stage for a solitary life of authorship, even as he grapples with death — first his brother’s, then his wife’s, and finally his own. Big Wilson is a tender examination of how place, ambition, and those we choose to love ultimately shape who we become.

09/05/2023

Our last book of 2023 is experiencing serious (and frustrating) delays at the printer but it should be out soon. But this post is about submissions...

Submissions are open! O-P-E-N-!

Our mission is to publish groundbreaking new work by emerging or established Canadian poets, in low-cost but beautiful limited editions! We have a soft spot for New Brunswick poets, and we particularly encourage BIPOC writers, writers with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ writers to submit.

How to submit: send your complete poetry manuscript (approx. 20-30 pages) to [email protected]. Please include a cover letter (separate or in email body) that includes your name, bio, where you’re from, and publication history.

Send questions, comments, ideas, etc. anytime. Like our page to stay up to date!!

Submissions close in 1 month... October 5. Publication scheduled through 2024!

08/04/2023

Doing the Sealey challenge? An Emergency Flash Mob chapbook is the perfect thing to add to your reading queue!

Order one or both of these right now to ensure you receive before the month is over! You can e-transfer (to [email protected] with your mailing address).

$13 ($10 + $3 shipping) for 1 of these chapbooks -- Kim Fahner's poetry or Sue Sinclair's essay -- or $23.50 ($20 + $3.50 shipping) for both.

08/02/2023

Happy publication day to Kim Fahner! Her new chapbook Fault Lines and Shatter Cones is now available from Emergency Flash Mob Press!! Yay!!

You can purchase one in person in Fredericton from me (Ian) for $10, or add $3 and I can ship one to you anywhere in Canada. You can do that by sending an e-transfer for $13 to [email protected] — don’t forget to add your address! Outside of Canada please send a message to publisher Ian LeTourneau for details!

Please share the exciting news!

07/28/2023

Look for more details about poetry manuscript submissions soon, but I’ve decided to take August off so submissions will re-open for poetry September 1. Please wait to submit.
The essay/poetics series remains open, however.

07/27/2023

A sneak peak at the next chapbook — here’s the title page and back cover of Fault Lines and Shatter Cones by Kim Fahner! Cover reveal soon! Should be printed next week!

07/03/2023

Enjoying being a publisher: the creative processes of editing, designing, etc. Sent proofs off to one author this afternoon. Copy edits going to another author tonight (hopefully). I’m publishing one chapbook that will be an essay on some aspect of poetics each year… submissions always open for this one (send to [email protected]) and at least 2 poetry chapbooks.

Putting my marketing hat on, I realize I haven’t announced this year’s list. The essay chapbook is already available. It’s by Sue Sinclair and called _At the Frog Pond: On Ecological Beauty and the Climate Crisis_. You can buy one now for $10 + $3 shipping (email [email protected] to order).

The two poetry chapbooks for 2023 are:

_Fault Lines and Shatter Cones_ by Kim Fahner
and
_Big Wilson_ by Mark Sampson

These should be ready to order by August/September and hopefully available at UNB Poetry Weekend. Submission guidelines for 2024 will open in the fall.

Exciting times!