Tightrope Books

Tightrope Books

Founded	2005
Founder	Halli Villegas
Country of origin	Canada
Headquarters location	Toronto
Distribution	Literary Press Group of Canada
Publication types	Books
Imprints	Jump Rope
Official website	tightropebooks.com

Tightrope Books is a Canadian independent book publisher based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Founded in 2005 by Halli Villegas, Tightrope Books publishes mainly poetry and fiction, as well as non-fiction and anthologies. As a "writer-centric press," Tightrope Books involves its authors and poets in the publishing process.^[1] According to Villegas, Tightrope Books “prides itself on introducing readers to writers who are a little bit out there,”^[2] working with both new and established authors who are open to experimentation.^[1]

Tightrope Books is represented by the Literary Press Group of Canada.^[3]

Annual Publications

Among the publications are the annual anthologies, Best Canadian Poetry in English and Best Canadian Essays. For both series, the series and guest editors collaborate and choose the best poems and essays by Canadians published in the preceding year from online and print Canadian literary journals.

The idea for the anthologies sprung from The Best American Poetry Series created by David Lehman.

Best Canadian Poetry in English

Year	Guest Editor	Series Editor
2011	Priscila Uppal	Molly Peacock
2010	Lorna Crozier	Molly Peacock
2009	A.F. Moritz	Molly Peacock
2008	Stephanie Bolster	Molly Peacock

The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008

Editors: Stephanie Bolster and Molly Peacock

Writers: Maleea Acker, James Arthur, Leanne Averbach, Margaret Avison, Ken Babstock, John Wall Barger, Brian Bartlett, John Barton, Yvonne Blomer, Tim Bowling, Heather Cadsby, Anne Compton, Kevin Connolly, Meira Cook, Dani Couture, Sadiqa de Meijer, Barry Dempster, Jeramy Dodds, Jeffery Donaldson, Susan Elmslie, Jason Guriel, Aurian Haller, Jason Heroux, Iain Higgins, Bill Howell, Helen Humphreys, Amanda Lamarche, Tim Lilburn, Michael Lista, Keith Maillard, Don McKay, A.F. Moritz, Jim Nason, Peter Norman, Alison Pick, E. Alex Pierce, Craig Poile, Matt Rader, Michael Eden Reynolds, Shane Rhodes, Joy Russell, Heather Sellers, David Seymour, J. Mark Smith, Adam Sol, Carmine Starnino, Anna Swanson, Todd Swift, J.R. Toriseva, and Leif E. Vaage.

The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009

Editors: A.F. Moritz and Molly Peacock

Writers: Margaret Atwood, Margaret Avison, Ken Babstock, Shirley Bear, Tim Bowling, Asa Boxer, Anne Compton, Jan Conn, Lorna Crozier, Barry Dempster, Don Domanski, John Donlan, Tyler Enfield, Jesse Ferguson, Connie Fife, Adam Getty, Steven Heighton, Michael Johnson, Sonnet L'Abbe, Anita Lahey, M. Travis Lane, Evelyn Lau, Richard Lemm, Dave Margoshes, Don McKay, Eric Miller, Shane Neilson, Peter Norman, David O'Meara, P.K. Page, Elise Partridge, Elizabeth Philips, Meredith Quartermain, Matt Rader, John Reibetanz, Robyn Sarah, Peter Dale Scott, Cora Sire, Karen Solie, Carmine Starnino, John Steffler, Ricardo Sternberg, John Terpstra, Sharon Thesen, Matthew Tierney, Patrick Warner, Tom Wayman, Patricia Young, Changming Yuan, and Jan Zwicky.

The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2010

Editors: Lorna Crozier and Molly Peacock

Writers: Ken Babstock, John Barton, Anne Compton, Allan Cooper, Mary Dalton, Barry Dempster, Kildare Dobbs, Don Domanski, Glen Downie, Sue Goyette, Rosemary Griebel, Adrienne Gruber, Jamella Hagen, Steven Heighton, Warren Heiti, M.G.R. Hickman-Barr, Maureen Hynes, Michael Johnson, Jim Johnstone, Sonnet L'Abbe, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Evelyn Lau, Katherine Lawrence, Ross Leckie, Tim Lilburn, Dave Margoshes, Jim Nason, Catherine Owen, P.K. Page, Rebecca Leah Papucaru, Marilyn Gear Pilling, Lenore and Beth Rowntree, Armand Garnet Ruffo, Lori Saint-Martin, Peter Sanger, Robyn Sarah, Eleonore Schönmaier, David Seymour, Melanie Siebert, Sue Sinclair, Karen Solie, Nick Thran, Carey Toane, Anne-Marie Turza, Paul Tyler, Patrick Warner, Zachariah Wells, Patricia Young, David Zieroth, and Jan Zwicky.

Sources of Poems

2008: PRISM international Brick Contemporary Verse 2 Matrix The Malahat Review Event Descant The Fiddlehead Maisonneuve enRoute This Magazine Arc Antigonish Review Exile Canadian Literature Prairie Fire Border Crossings Grain Literary Review of Canada The Capilano Review Room Vallum

2009: Descant Brick The Fiddlehead West Coast LINE Arc Literary Review of Canada Maisonneuve Vallum Canadian Literature Prairie Fire Event Grain The Dalhousie Review Hammered Out The New Quarterly Queen's Quarterly The Antigonish Review subTerrain The Malahat Review This Magazine The Walrus The Capilano Review The Nashwaak Review

2010: Literary Review of Canada Arc Riddle Fence Studio The Malahat Review Prairie Fire Exile enRoute Event The Walrus Grain The New Quarterly The Fiddlehead PRISM international Room Queen's Quarterly The Dalhousie Review Existere Descant Geist The Antigonish Review Brick This Magazine Canadian Notes & Queries Contemporary Verse 2

Best Canadian Essays

Year	Guest Editor	Series Editor
2011	Ibi Kaslik	Christopher Doda
2010	Kamal Al-Solaylee	Alex Boyd
2009	Carmine Starnino	Alex Boyd

The Best Canadian Essays 2009

Editor: Alex Boyd and Carmine Starnino

Writers: Kamal Al-Solaylee, Katherine Ashenburg, Kris Demeanor, Jessa Gamble, Nicholas Hune-Brown, Chris Koentges, Anita Lahey, Alison Lee, Nick Mount, Denis Seguin, Chris Turner, Lori Theresa Waller, Nathan Whitlock, and Chris Wood.

The Best Canadian Essays 2010

Editors: Alex Boyd and Kamal Al-Solaylee

Writers: Katherine Ashenburg, Ira Basen, Will Braun, Tyee Bridge, Abou Farman, Paul Gallant, Lisa Gregoire, Danielle Groen, Elizabeth Hay, Jason McBride, Carolyn Morris, Katharine Sandiford, Andrew Steinmetz, Timothy Taylor, Chris Turner, and Nora Underwood.

Sources of Essays

2009: Canadian Notes & Queries Toronto Life Unlimited Up Here Swerve Maisonneuve This Magazine Queen's Quarterly The Walrus Alberta Views Briarpatch Magazine

2010: Vancouver Magazine Maisonneuve Geez Swerve This Magazine Canadian Geographic Chatelaine New Quarterly Toronto Life Up Here Queen's Quarterly The Walrus Alberta Views

Other Titles

• Fortune Cookie by Heather J. Wood
• In the Dark Stories From The Supernatural edited by Myna Wallin and Halli Villegas
• The Stone Skippers by Ian Burgham
• She's Shameless edited by Stacey May Fowles and Megan Griffith-Greene
• GULCH edited by Sarah Beaudin, Karen Correia Da Silva, and Curran Folkers
• The Girl on the Escalator by Jim Nason
• Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar by Myna Wallin
• A Thousand Profane Pieces by Myna Wallin
• Onion Man by Kathryn Mockler

Recognition

The Nights Also (2010) by Anna Swanson was awarded the 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry.^[4][5] It made the 2011 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award shortlist.^[6]

Wrong Bar (2009) by Nathaniel G. Moore made the 2010 ReLit Award novel shortlist.^[7]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "About Tightrope Books"
2. ^ Medley, Mark (23 November 2009). "Start the small presses!: Nathaniel G. Moore is content to stay on the fringes". National Post. http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2257448. Retrieved 1 June 2011. 
3. ^ "LPG publishers"
4. ^ Carter Flinn, Sue (27 May 2011). "Canadian authors celebrated at the Lambda Awards". Quill & Quire. http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2011/05/27/canadian-authors-celebrated-at-th-lambda-awards/. Retrieved 1 June 2011. 
5. ^ "Canadians clean up at the Lambdas". Xtra!. 31 May 2011. http://www.xtra.ca/blog/national/post/2011/05/31/Canadians-cleaned-up-at-the-Lambdas.aspx. Retrieved 15 June 2011. 
6. ^ Carter Flinn, Sue (5 April 2011). "Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther shortlists announced". Quill & Quire. http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/05/gerald-lampert-and-pat-lowther-shortlists-announced. Retrieved 1 June 2011. 
7. ^ "2010 ReLit Shortlists". relitawards.com. http://therelitawards.blogspot.com/2010/08/2010-relit-shortlists.html. 

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