08/28/2025
Hey all, we're amalgamating our Gordon Hill Press and The Porcupine's Quill socials, so we're not updating in two places at once.
From now on Facebook announcements for both presses will be here at https://www.facebook.com/theporcupinesquill/.
If you haven't liked / followed that page yet, please do so know to keep yourself in touch with us.
There won't be any new announcements on this page going forward, but we'll leave the page up for a while to help people transition.
See you all on the new page!
The Porcupine’s Quill is an independent publishing company based in Erin, Ontario. At the shop on the Main Street of Erin Village, you’ll likely find co-founders Tim and Elke Inkster printing and binding their books by hand.
The Porcupine’s Quill began in 1974, originally as the production arm of Dave Godfrey’s Press Porcépic. First based at 671 Spadina Avenue—the same house that had nurtured Godfrey’s other presses House of Anansi and newpress—the company moved to a nineteenth-century storefront in Erin, where the Porcupine’s Quill has remained to this day.
While printing and binding books by hand is a lengthier process than using more automated methods, the Porcupine’s Quill promotes the value of a handmade book. Today the press is known for its expertise in using twentieth-century printing technology to replicate the quality look, and feel, of nineteenth-century letterpress product.
