The Toronto Small Press Group organizes two small press fairs a year, spring and fall. 
It was held at Trinity St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor St W, Toronto from 11am-5pm on Saturday, May 26th.

The organizers put a lot of time and effort to arrange this and it was most appreciated by all in attendance.  Their hard work paid off and everyone had a successful and wonderful time.  Kudos well deserved to their organizers!

The event was held in two rooms.  The main room was jammed pack with lots
of small presses being well represented from comics, short stories, poetry, fiction, magazines, art, from childrens' books to adults. One of the areas personally enjoyed was the handmade books.

There was a lot of networking that took place with the presses being not only
in Toronto, but also from various locations around the Toronto area.

The second, the small room (where Graham Ducker of J. Graham Publishing) were more table displays, but the centre of the room had a sitting area for those wanting to hear the readers. This was the Chapel Room.

There were readings in the afternoon were by:

This year also marks the return of the Instant Anthology.

         Anyone wanting to participate brought a one single-sided page of their best work, short-short  fiction, text-based art, a poem, to the fair. A trio of editors made their selection during the afternoon and the anthology is produced and distributed before the end of the fair. If your work appears in the instant anthology you receive a free copy. Copies will be available for sale to others.

Preparations will soon be underway for the Fall 2007 fair.  Look for us there!

    Below are a few photos taken by Stella Ducker at the Toronto Small Press
Fair to give you a visual of the event.

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ALL photos by Stella Ducker ©
Graham Ducker, J. Graham Publishing - in the Chapel Room - top left is a reader