Tightrope Books
The writer walks a tightrope balanced on art, suspending disbelief, working without any net except the one woven with words.
Publisher Halli Villegas is also a published writer. In addition to writing she has had four years experience with another independent press as assistant editor. She envisions a writer centric press with an emphasis on new ideas and quality over quantity. Each book will be designed and marketed to best serve the writer's interests as well as making it memorable. She would like to bring together the arts communities in Canada through Tightrope Books by using local artists for covers and marketing materials, as well as having launches and readings that double as art showings and/or musical venues.
Poetry
Editor Myna Wallin
is a poet, prose writer, small press publisher and radio host.
She has published 3 chapbooks: Vulnerable Positions (2002), The Old Abandonment
(2003) and Warning Signs, (2005). She has also been published in many
literary journals and anthologies including:
The Algonquin Square Table Anthology, Eye Weekly, Existere, Kiss Machine,
Moosecall: Big Game, Small Stories, My Lump in the Bed: Love Poems for
George W. Bush (editor, Stuart Ross), NoD, Taddle Creek Magazine, Surface
and Symbol, and Word: Canada's Magazine for Readers and Writers.
Myna hosts "In Other Words" on the second Tuesday of every month
at 2 pm on CKLN 88.1 FM. Along with her co-publisher David Clink, she
has been publishing poetry chapbooks through Believe Your Own Press since
2002.
You can find out more about Myna's work at:
www.poetrymachine.com/believe and www.mynawallin.com
Please send
all poetry manuscript submissions to the attention of Myna Wallin
Associate Editors M. Lyons and E. Lawson read all incoming submissions excepting poetry and advise as to the suitability for Tightrope Books list. Any queries reagrding manuscripts should be directed to either editor.
Editor at Large Tim Hanna can be found most days working in his bookstore Babel at 123 Ossington, in Toronto, Ontario. He is a small press survivor and always happy to meet for a pint.
Art Director Tracy Carbert is a Toronto photographer whose work has appeared on the cover of many small press books and literary magazines