Roar into the New Year with the Launch of Dinosaur Porn

A Launch Party Sixty-Five Million Years In The Making. Well, more like six months, but hey – thanks for your patience.

Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 7:30 pm
The Supermarket, 268 Augusta Avenue, Toronto

DINOSAUR PORN has been lovingly edited and designed by the DIY dream team combination of Ferno House and The Emergency Response Unit. This is a limited-edition, lovingly handcrafted, and perfect bound collection of poetry and fiction.

DINOSAUR PORN features the prehistoric poetry and/or fleshy fiction of Louise Bak, Gary Barwin, David Brock, Andrew Faulkner, Warren Dean Fulton, Spencer Gordon, Corrigan Hammond, Joe Hickey, Penn Kemp, Henry Lee, Christine McNair, Dave Miller, Nathaniel G. Moore, James Nadel, Leigh Nash, Kenneth Pobo, Shannon Rayne, Carey Toane, Jordan Trethewey, and Sara Wilson.

So join us for a night of merryment, and come pick up this weighty tome for a mere $15. Other chapbooks released by Ferno House and The Emergency Response Unit will be availble for sale, as well.

To help us hatch this behemoth, we’ve invited some contributors to come and read their work. Come see readings by:

Louise Bak, Gary Barwin, David Brock, David Miller, Nathaniel G. Moore, Christine McNair, and Carey Toane.

Get a taste of the action here.

Happy Belated Holidays and Welcome Back to Work!

Make it your New Year’s resolution to send us your chapbook manuscript for consideration. We’re only reading until the end of January. Submission guidelines here.

Going live

On Tuesday, December 1, from 2-3 pm, we’ll be on air with Charlie Huisken (of This Ain’t the Rosedale Library fame) to talk about our chapbooks and small-pressing-it. Tune your radio in to CKLN at 88.1 FM, or listen online at www.ckln.fm!

We’ve taken the plunge

That’s right – we’re pleased to announce that our chapbooks are now available for your purchasing pleasure at http://www.etsy.com/shop/TERUBooks! See? Look how easy we just made impulse buying. We’re looking out for you.

They’re almost here! Tell your friends!

Coming next weekend to a small press fair near you (listen up, Ottawa!), we’re proud to present our All-Star Fall 2009 lineup:

Water Upsets Stone Cameron Anstee

Gasmask Summer David Brock

Letter on St. Valentine’s Day Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Vox Populism Jacob McArthur Mooney

apartments Aaron Tucker

Our lovely books will be making their debut at the Ottawa Small Press Fair on Saturday, November 28 at the Jack Purcell Community Centre (320 Jack Purcell Lane, just off of Elgin, at Gilmour). We’ll be there from  12-5. Will you?

Other people like chapbooks, too

Like a beacon in the cold, quiet world of chapbook publishing, The Chapbook Review is, according to their website, “A monthly online literary journal focused on the critical examination of the venerable chapbook: slim, soft-cover books, usually inexpensively produced and independently published.” This description of the chapbook warms our lonely hearts. Check out the latest issue, featuring the Chapbook Publishers Roundtable 2009, here.

In other news, we just received a batch of absolutely beautiful chapbooks from the new-ish Ottawa-based Apt. 9 Press, run by our very own Cameron Anstee; we’re publishing his chapbook, Water Upsets Stone, any day now. It too will be beautiful.

All right. Back to the grindstone.

Porn Buzz

Well, we’re still slaving away with good ol’ Ferno House to pull together Dinosaur Porn, out sometime this fall. To tide you over, check out this interview with Spencer Gordon (of Ferno House) about our hot little project.

Better than Body Worlds

From November 4-6, York University is playing host to Bodyworks, a symposium linking sports, art, and culture. With free admission (registration required, though) there’s really no reason not to check it out; the program includes art exhibitions, film screenings, keynote lectures and panels featuring Olympic athletes and cultural activists, and even creative writing workshops for athletes – or those interested in sports writing. As we have a mean backhand, we’ll be there with bells on. You?

Hoopla

Our thunderous forthcoming anthology Dinosaur Porn (with Ferno House) gets a mention over at Open Book Toronto. Rawr.

Also, now’s your chance to get your hands on last season’s still-hot chapbooks: we’ll have a few titles for sale at the Mansfield Press table this weekend at Word on the Street (September 26, 11-6). Stop by and say hello!

Road Trip

Our books are almost ready and we’re taking our show on the road; The Emergency Response Unit will be selling our chapbooks at the Ottawa Small Press Fair. The date is November 15, the time is noon to five, and the location is the Jack Purcell Community Centre at 320 Jack Purcell Lane, just off of Elgin, at Gilmour. Come and visit and help us sell out our first round of books!

Also, on Friday night, co-founder Andrew Faulkner will be reading at the pre-fair reading at The Carleton Tavern (223 Armstrong St., at Parkdale). Doors at 7pm, readings at 7:30pm.

Hotcakes

Our books are hot off the press and ready to slip into your hot little hands! We have a variety of pricing options for your purchasing pleasure.

Chapbook Pricing:

one two three four five

for for for for for

$8 $15 $21 $26 $30

For ordering information (including shipping costs) please send us an email.

 

Literary Speed Dating

Come by and see us at the Indie Literary Market on Saturday. You can buy a book, we can have coffee, maybe try each other on for size. Hugs and kisses, The Emergency Response Unit

Happy New Year!

Make buying more chapbooks your number one resolution.

We’re having a party

That’s right, we’re finally launching our first round of chapbooks, just in time to get you out of the house on a cold February evening. 

Monday, February 23, 2008
8 pm, readings at 8:30 pm sharp(ish)
Magpie Tavern, 831 Dundas St. W 

With readings by our fabulous first five authors

Nashira Dernesch This Snowing Under
Anya Douglas Poems
Andrew Faulkner Useful Knots and How to Tie Them
Marcus McCann Force quit
Leigh Nash five-seven-five: train poems

as well as

Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts, from their new chapbook Chora Sea 

Awesome chapbooks will be available for purchase. We’re looking forward to finally being legit.

The GBs Storm Ottawa

The GBs (Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts) perform THE OBVIOUS FLAP, a performance text with dialogue, mixed-media & sound poetry, at The A B Series at The Mercury Lounge (56 ByWard Market) on February 20, 2008. Doors open at 7:30 pm, show at 8 pm.

In other news, The Emergency Response Unit is releasing a collaborative chapbook of theirs called Chora Sea. It’s great, and will be available for purchase on February 20 in Ottawa and on February 23 in Toronto at our fabulous launch party.

Thanks!

Our Feb. 23 launch was a smashing success, thanks to all our fantastic authors/readers and everyone who made it out on such a cold night. You warmed our hearts. We hope our books warm yours.

Oh me, oh my

One of our illustrious authors (and press co-founder), Andrew Faulkner, has got himself onto the shortlist for the 2009 bpNichol Chapbook Award for Useful Knots and How to Tie Them. 

Gary Barwin, of Chora Sea fame, also made the list for his chapbook Inverting the Deer published by his own serif of nottingham editions. In fact, congrats to the whole damn shortlist: 

John R. Barlow, The Longest Day
Gary Barwin, Inverting the Deer
Andrew Faulkner, Useful Knots and How to Tie Them
Daphne Marlatt, Between Brush Strokes
Sandra Ridley, Lift

[Golf claps]

Rawr: Call for Submissions

We are now accepting poetry, prose, and non-fiction submissions of any length relating to the theme Dinosaur Porn.

dinosaur n.

1. Any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.

2. Something that is unwieldy in size, anachronistically outmoded, or unable to adapt to change: The old steel mill was a dinosaur that cost the company millions to operate.

porn n.

1. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.

2. The presentation or production of this material.

3. Lurid or sensational material: “Recent novels about the Holocaust have kept Hitler well offstage [so as] to avoid the … pornography of the era” (Morris Dickstein).

dinosaur porn n.

1. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal in any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.

2. The presentation or production of this material.

3. Lurid or sensational material that is unwieldy in size, anachronistically outmoded, or unable to adapt to change.

The small press DIY dream team of Ferno House and The Emergency Response Unit wants your writing that takes the prompt Dinosaur Porn as inspiration and a springboard for bigger and better things.

Guidelines:

For each submission, the title, genre, and word count of the work should appear in the subject line as well as the name of the author.

Please include contact information, a very short bio (including a list of previous publications), and returning email address in the body of the email.

The actual work can be submitted as a Microsoft Word or .rtf attachment. Only electronic submissions will be accepted.

Deadline: August 7, 2009

Send all submissions to: pornsaurus@gmail.com. For real.