On April 5, during Cumulus Press’ 10th anniversary celebration, publisher David Widgington stood up on a chair, thanked everyone for helping celebrate 10 years of independent publishing, then prior to cutting into the massive cake of Cumulus’ logo, announced that Cumulus Press was shutting down. “This is not a funeral,” Widgington said to more than 100 people in attendance. “It is a wake to celebrate 10 great years!” He also stated that several of Cumulus’ titles will remain in print and carried by other publishers like Montreal’s conundrum press. “Cumulus Press books will live on through these types of collaborations.” Please see the new titles section to find the Cumulus Press titles conundrum has happily acquired: Picture This! Posters of social movements in Québec (1966 - 2007) The Hero Book Maps of Our Bodies & the borders we have agreed upon Shary Boyle launches Otherworld Uprising in Montreal with a presentation and Q&A to follow. October 15th, Libraire Drawn and Quarterly, 211 Bernard West, 7:30. www.drawnandquarterly.com/211bernard       J.R. Carpenter launches her novel Words the Dog Knows: • NYC - October 23, KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, 7-9 pm with readings by Karen Russell, Nora Maynard and Corey Frost http://www.kgbbar.com/calendar/event/2008-10-23_book_launch_for.html • Montreal - November 7, Sky Blue Door, 5403 B Saint-Laurent, 7-11 pm in association with Dare-Dare. • Montreal - Reading Sunday November 9th at the Green Room, 5386 St Laurent, with Harold Hoefle and Katia Grubisic. • Toronto - November 17, This is Not a Reading Series, Gladstone Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West, with Emily Holton who will be launching her new reversible book Our Starland/Dear Canada Council. French rights have been sold for Corey Frost’s two books My Own Devices and The Worthwhile Flux to Le Quartanier. Chandra Mayor’s All the Pretty Girls has been featured in The Globe and Mail: “The overall impression is one of overlaid pieces that, put together, come close to capturing the contradiction, chaos and fullness of one real life.” Prairie Books Now: “Besides a careful ear for language Mayor’s work features a sensitivity to her characters and their sometimes painful experiences.” And was the Fiction Book of the issue in Broken Pencil: “A little microscopic, a little dreamy and a little desperate — seems like perfect hardcore Prairie prose to me. Mayor’s craft is impeccable…” Be sure to see Chandra mayor at the Winnipeg Writer’s Festival. www.thinairwinnipeg.ca/ Congratulations to Liane Keightley on being shortlisted for the QWF Award First Book category for her book Seven Openings of the Head. This is her third award nomination for her awesome book of stories.
Last updated: September 2008