Urban Farmhouse Press

10/18/2024

Of interest for Waawiiyaatanong region writers. One of the best regional writing festivals is going down nearby and it's free and open to y'all. Some events are online. A lot of cool things in person. Build or strengthen your writing community. Without a legit literary festival in Windsor, why not make Winter Wheat Festival yours?

More info: https://casit.bgsu.edu/winterwheat/

10/15/2024

I can feel an emptiness in this greater southern reaches of Ontario and Canada. One that needs to be healed. Perhaps a legit literary festival along the Erie Shores of Essex County. A physical gathering of writers, thinkers, readers, publishers, and cultural leaders. There is an expansive community of artists and thinkers across North America/Turtle Island and we must build a bridge for our peoples to connect. By the River Reading Series was a start. But in our absence the emptiness has grown. There is movement in the darkened portions of forests and fields. Be attentive. The spirit stirs.

08/22/2024

Got a book review or want to write one? Hit me up for Pitukena Journal. Help out the writer community. Share your love of reading.

08/16/2024

Our first new open call in a minute. We are back.

So it begins ....

Pitukena Literary Journal is now open for submissions. Souwesto’s newest and first Indigenous-run literary journal. A journal to fill the vacuum left in the closure of the Windsor Review. But with a community-based soul to uplift and change, to fulfill the principles of literature as border-crosser, writing as a valued craft, and art with a keen eye to what we should be and what we are. We feature de-colonial, eco-centred, and literary valued work from Indigenous and allied writers from across the world. A literary journal that pays and is published twice annually and in print format. No submission fees.

Submissions for issue 1 are open through 1 November 2024

Subscriptions available

More information on available here: https://urbanfarmhousepress.ca/wordpress/index.php/pitukena-literary-journal/

For direct submissions use the QR Code.

07/14/2024

Big News. The Hibernation is over.

Official for 2024 fall:

Urban Farmhouse Press is coming out of hiatus (new website dropping Aug.1).

But also a new Literary Journal for Waawiiyaatanong is also opening. Named for milkweed, the journal will be the first new print journal from the region and will be centered on celebrating rooted Indigenous and Allied writings and creative projects. Book reviews will also be spotlighted and come from voices beyond the publishing industrial complex.

More details to follow. Open for book review requests and essay pitches at [email protected]

09/09/2022

Be sure to check out this review from Shelley McAneeley at FreeFall Magazine of Marty Gervais "Meeting Thoreau at the Gas Station Diner."

by Shelley McAneeley Meeting Thoreau at the Gas Station Diner by Marty Gervais Urban Farmhouse Press (2022) In the mid-to-late sixties, hippies and curious seekers took off to wherever, whatever, and however. It was a time of expansion. Strongly motivated to explore the world, new cultures, and disc...

09/07/2022

Check out some fresh new work from UFP poet and essayist Benjamin Goluboff:

Poetry by Benjamin Goluboff .

08/08/2022

Windsor, ON's renowned poet and storyteller returns with a profoundly personal poetic memoir of a foundational time in North America. Gervais returns us to an era defined hitchhiking, psychedelic music, and the domestic strife of foreign wars. The era of the unbridled open road, the freedom of movement across a land and place we had yet to come to terms with.

Available now:

Publisher: https://urbanfarmhousepress.ca/index....

Author Bio:

Marty Gervais, the City of Windsor's inaugural Poet Laureate, and now Poet Laureate Emeritus, is a Canadian poet, photographer, journalist, and teacher. He has won many literary awards including the prestigious Toronto's Harbourfront Festival Prize for his contributions to Canadian letters and emerging writers, the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award, and the City of Windsor's Mayor's Award. Gervais, whose book The Rumrunners, was a Canadian bestseller, is also the recipient of 16 Western Ontario Newspaper Awards for journalism and was given the Queen's Jubilee Medal.

Music track: Sunset by MusicbyAden

08/03/2022

Marty Gervais launches Meeting Thoreau at the Gas Station Diner.

07/04/2022

If you are WI or environs. Check out this live event with Nina Clements (Our Mother of Sorrows)

In this stunning debut poetry collection, Clements utilizes heartfelt lyricism to explore the hard turns that familial bonds, motherhood, and faith play in the world. These are poems that sing out in a broken bottle chorus of the ways that people share the common, the uncommon, and the unexpectant i...