Gordon Hill Press & The Porcupine's Quill

Gordon Hill Press & The Porcupine's Quill 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.

We love chapbooks here at Gordon Hill Press & The Porcupine's Quill, and we've been dabbling with the form now and again...
12/08/2025

We love chapbooks here at Gordon Hill Press & The Porcupine's Quill, and we've been dabbling with the form now and again over the past couple of years, but we've decided to do so a little more deliberately now through three very different chapbook imprints:

The Sheffield Chapbooks
will feature poetry by New Brunswick authors, which may seem a bit odd for an Ontario based press, but it's a way for our editor Shane Neilson, who was born and raised in The Picture Province, to honour his poetic heritage.

mad / sick / different
will publish poetry by disabled authors, continuing Shane's lifelong commitment to advancing the work of poets living with disability.

Scrummage Chapbooks
will be a space for anything else you can imagine—short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, b&w visual essays—surprise us!

You can find submission guidelines for all that on our website ghp-pql.com "About" page. We're looking forward to your submissions!

Gordon Hill Press and The Porcupine's Quill are excited to announce the Molly Peacock Nonfiction Prize!Molly Peacock is ...
12/03/2025

Gordon Hill Press and The Porcupine's Quill are excited to announce the Molly Peacock Nonfiction Prize!

Molly Peacock is a distinguished Canadian-American author who has championed creativity. Ghp-pql are pleased to honour her legacy through the Molly Peacock Nonfiction Prize, which is open to unpublished creative nonfiction manuscripts by Canadian authors.

To submit, purchase the Molly Peacock Nonfiction Prize Submission Fee found on our website
https://ghp-pql.com/products/molly-peacock-nonfiction-prize

Then submit your completed manuscript along with a bio statement and your publication history to [email protected] with your full name and manuscript title in the subject heading. All submissions should be sent in .doc or .docx format.

The winner will receive $1,000 award upon acceptance of an offer of publication. Additional submissions may also receive an offer of publication.

Submissions are open until June 30. The winner will be announced in September.

Looking for a fun holiday event? Why not come to the holiday book tasting event at The Hive December 15 at 7pmFind a goo...
11/27/2025

Looking for a fun holiday event?
Why not come to the holiday book tasting event at The Hive December 15 at 7pm
Find a good read for yourself or for a gift for a family or friend 🎁

09/29/2025

Joanna Cockerline and Kevin Andrew Heslop will be at the Tranzac club for a reading this Sunday September 28 at 7pm, wit...
09/28/2025

Joanna Cockerline and Kevin Andrew Heslop will be at the Tranzac club for a reading this Sunday September 28 at 7pm, with guests Guy Elston, Steffi Tad-y and Jessica Popeski

Tranzac Club
283 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto

Come join us at Word on The Street 🚶 Toronto sept 27-28, where we will be selling books. Come by for a chat and meet som...
09/25/2025

Come join us at Word on The Street 🚶 Toronto sept 27-28, where we will be selling books. Come by for a chat and meet some of our authors who will join the table throughout the weekend

⭐One of our authors, will be reading on Sunday Sept 28 11-11:45am

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255 Woolwich Street
Guelph, ON
N1H3V8

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 4pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 4pm
Friday 8:30am - 4pm

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+15198339158

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