Small Press & Literary

The Canadian Literature Archive - A very thorough archive of CanLit run out of the English Department of the University of Manitoba.

The League of Canadian Poets - What happens when you put 300 poets in the same room....

ARC - Canada's national poetry magazine.

rob's blog - rob mclennan's blog, which he frequently updates with interviews, notes, lit news, etc.

Broken Pencil - "The magazine of zine culture and the independent arts".

Earth Partners Publishing - Website for April Severin's press.

Bywords - Ottawa's literary calendar has been reborn (thanks Amanda & Charles)

The AB Series - Blog for Max Middle's AB reading series in Ottawa.

afterwords - Website that specializes in small & micro press lit. This is where the really interesting stuff happens.

Ottawater - Online annual poetic journal focusing on Ottawa poets and poetics.

Cancult - Peter Darbyshire's blog.

The Ottawa Writers Festival - Festival happens twice a year, in the spring and fall.

Abebooks.com - The best online rare book market going.

TREE - Ottawa's oldest reading series. Usually held at Arts Court (2 Daly) on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month.

Toronto Small Press Group - Website for the people who run the twice-yearly Toronto Small Press Book Fair

Concrete-Visual Poetry - Michael P. Garofalo's "Indexes to Webpages and Print Resources" for Concrete and Visual poetry

UBUWeb - An excellent website devoted to sound, visual and concrete poetry and art. Has an extensive archive of author's and artist's works.

John W. MacDonald - Weblog by John MacDonald, who spends rather a lot of time going to literary events in Ottawa.

bentspoon - Weblog for visual/concrete poetry & mail art.

ESPA - Website for the Edmonton Small Press Association

Expozine - Expozine is a very big small press fair held annually in Montreal.

Kathryn Hunt's blog - Kathryn keeps track of arts & crafts events, zine fairs, publishing and poetry readings, mostly in the Ottawa area.

Dusty Owl - Website for the Dusty Owl Reading Series and the Dusty Owl Press.

dbqp: visualizing poetics - Great visual poetry & poetics site from Geof Huth.

small press book fairs - A blog that keeps track of small press fairs in Canada.

The Writer's Pantheon - A tribute to muses, deities, and other supernatural characters associated with the craft of writing

Pooka Press - Myspace page for Warren D. Fulton's excellent Pooka Press.

Pesbo - Pearl Pirie's poetry & performance journal.

Grammar Girl - A podcast series of "quick & dirty tips for better writing"

Books & Fine Press

Fine Press Book Association - "International society promoting the appreciation of beautiful books, fine printing and the book arts". They have a blog here.

Bookninja - Book & publishing news blog.

Early Canadiana Online - Website archive on early Cdn writing maintained by Library and Archives Canada. There's some good stuff in there, in amongst the many many old government documents.

Nelson Ball, Bookseller - Excellent bookstore specializing in Cdn literature. Sells online through ABE.

Classical Bookworm - Great blog focusing on the classical literary tradition.

Mother Tongue Books - Great independent Ottawa bookstore.

Collected Works - Another great independent Ottawa bookstore.

Barbarian Press - Possibly the best fine press in Canada.

BibliOdyssey - Neat blog that looks at books, illustrations, book art, etc.

Early Printed Books - An excellent website maintained by Sian Echard listing many of the online archives of digitized early printed books. Also, check out her "Medieval Manuscripts on the Web" for books from before the age of printing.

Heavenly Monkey - Excellent Vancouver based letterpress printing & bookbinding outfit that puts out really interesting stuff. They have a page on their website with information about Jim Rimmer, the Cdn type designer, type caster and graphic artist whom The Grunge Papers has gotten some of its type from.

Mother Tongue Publishing - (formerly Mother Tongue Press) A fine literary press based on Salt Spring Island in BC that specializes in the letterpress printing and publishing of excellent chapbooks & broadsides. 

Chaudiere Books - Blog for Chaudiere Books, a seriously good literary press.

Book Arts, Paper Arts & Printing

The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild - The CBBAG website.

Greyweathers - Merrickville studio of artist/calligrapher Holly Dean and printer Larry Thompson, both of whom are members of the Ottawa Press Gang. Larry's blog is here, and Holly's is here.

Bytown Bookshop - Book store in Ottawa specializing in used & rare. Richard & France, the owners/operators of the shop, are also members of The Ottawa Press Gang.

The Paperwright - Website for Britt Quinlan, papermaking & bookbinding supplier and fellow member of the Ottawa Press Gang.

Marin Press - Blog for Gina Marin, graphic designer, letterpress printer and member of the Ottawa Press Gang.

Gaspereau Press - An excellent fine printer & publisher in Nova Scotia. They have a blog here.

The San Francisco Centre for the Book - "a place where you can learn about the many arts and crafts of the book".

George Walker - Website for George Walker, printer, artist & wood engraver extraordinaire.

DA - Website for DA (the Devil's Artisan), a printing arts journal

The Alcuin Society - A group "for lovers of books, the book arts, fine printing and reading". The society's blog is located here, and tends to have more info on ongoing projects, upcoming events, etc.

Don Black Linecasting - "Letterpress Heaven North", it has been called.

Typefoundry - Blog for documents on the history of type and letterforms.

The British Printing Society - Website for the BPS, an organization devoted to fostering the spirit of craftsmanship in the British letterpress community.

Counterspace - A website dedicated to typography and its history.

St-Armand Paper - An excellent papermaking establishment in Montreal.

The Cranky Press - Blog for Sue Globensky's press, she being a member of the Ottawa Press Gang.

Thee Hellbox Press - Website for Hugh Barclay's excellent private press from Kingston.

Type Culture - Resource directory & archive of information about type and typography

Arts & Crafts

Gemini Dream - Website for Pat Rowan, fabric artist extraordinaire.

Artengine - An artist-run site for visual & media artists.

Patti Normand - Ottawa artist Patti Normand's site on "Artengine"

Blarg! - Blog for Tom Fowler, comic artist

Dipna Horra - Very cool "Origins appear in Art" online installation by Ottawa EBA artist Dipna Horra.

Ladyfest - Ottawa group that runs a series of arts & music festivals

Frances Ward - Website for Frances Ward, a Hamilton based artist & poet

Dale Smith Gallery - Ottawa art gallery that always has something interesting up.

Cube Gallery - Ottawa gallery run by Don Monet. Lots of space and there are new shows up all the time.

Karen Bailey - Multi-talented Ottawa artist who's done some wonderful painting.

Enriched Bread Artists - A non-profit collective studio/space of two dozen artists in Ottawa.

Not sure how to categorize, but very cool

2x4 to the forehead - Website for James Spyker & his various interests and endeavours.

Communications from Elsewhere - Website that generates a completely meaningless essay. Brilliant.

Searches & Indexes

Wikipedia - Knowledge as a flexible concept, or something like that.