Snare Books (publishing)

Robert Allen, born in 1946, died in November, 2006 just months after the founding of Snare Books. He is the author of three novels, nine poetry collections, and one work of short fiction. Allen was a mentor to co-founder and owner of Snare Books, Joe Paul Fiorentino. Robert Allen worked alongside Joe Paul Fiorentino at Matrix Magazine.[5]

Jon Paul Fiorentino is currently a Concordia University Professor in the Department of English. He received his undergraduate degree in English Literature at the University of Winnipeg. He fulfilled his Honours and Distinction Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing, as well as his Master of Arts in English Literature and Creative writing at Concordia University. Fiorentino was the Head Editor and Founder of Dark Leisure Magazine (1998–2000) and is the Editor-in-Chief of Matrix Magazine.[6] He has helped edit books for Insomniac Press, Conundrum Press, Cyclops Press, and DC Books. He is the author of several poetry books such as Indexical Elegies (2010), The Theory of the Loser Class (2006), Hello Serotonin (2004), Resume Drowning (2002), and Transcona Fragments (2002). He is also the writer of the anthologies, Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour (2003), Asthmatica (2005), as well as Post Prairie (2005), which included a collaborative work with Robert Kroetsch. His works, Stripmalling, The Theory of the Loser Class, Transcona Fragments, and Indexical Elegies, have been nominated and have received various awards.[6]

Robert Kroetsch, born in 1927, is a Canadian novelist, poet, and non-fiction writer.[9] He has been called names like “The Father of Canadian Postmodernism”,[9] “Mr. Canadian Postmodern and the “Prairie Poet”.[9] Majority of his works have been received with praise and in 1969, he won Canada's Governor General's Award for The Studhorse Man.[10] In 2004 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.[8] He is also an accomplished poet. Both his poetry and critical writings are postmodern in that they subvert tradition, fragmented and opened ended."[11] Kroetsch’s work has been important in Canadian literary advancements.[12]

• 2007 Winner: Natalie Zina Walschots for Thumbscrews, Judge: Darren Wershler
• 2008 Winner: Geoffery Hlibchuk for Variations on Holderlin, Judge: Elizabeth Bachinsky
• 2009 Winner: Sarah Dowling for Security Posture, Judge: Rachel Zolf
• 2010 Winner: Jake Kennedy for The Lateral, Judge: Sina Queyras
• 2011 Winner: Pearl Pirie for Thirsts, Judge: Neil Besner[13]
• 2012 Winner: Laura Broadbent for Oh There You Are I Can’t See You Is It Raining? , Judge: Sachiko Murakami [the final year the prize was administered by Snare Books]
• 2013 Winner: Claire Lacey for Twin Tongues, Judge: Jay MillAr
• 2014 Winner: Jeremy Stewart for Hidden City, Judge: Ken Babstock
• 2015 Winner: Lucas Crawford for Sideshow Concessions, Judge: Karen Solie
• 2016 Winner: Paul Zits for Leap-seconds, Judge: George Elliott Clarke
• 2017 Winner: Shazia Hafiz Ramji for Port of Being, Judge: Wayde Compton

Hard Feelings is Warrener’s debut book of poetry. The poems featured in Hard Feelings are about everyday life and the little things that excite humans. If offers her readers a sense of hope and gratitude. Her poems have appeared in many Canadian journals including Event, Grain, Antigonish Review, and The Fiddlehead and the Malahat review. Warrener received an MFA from the University of British Columbia in 2008 as well as a BFA from the University of Victoria in 2001. She is currently a teacher in Sweden.[14]

Kennedy’s work as a poet and prose writer has appeared in anthologies and literary journals. He is currently teaching in the English Department at Okanagan College. The Lateral won him the 2010 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. The Lateral includes a long-poem, a series of prose-poem-ruminations, and ends with a section of vulgar poems.[15]

Update. is the second book Kennedy and Wershler have created together. Kennedy also runs the media consultancy, Stop 14 Media and is the Artistic Director of the Scream Literary Festival in Toronto. Darren Wershler is a Professor of English at Concordia University and is the co-author of twelve books.[16]

Novakovich is originally from Croatia but moved to the United States at the age of twenty. Three Deaths is his first Canadian edition of his written work. Novakovich received many awards for his works including the Ingram Merrill Award. Three Deaths includes a personal essay, a short story, as well as a classic tale, all focusing around the theme of death.[17]

Hajnoczky’s work has appeared in Filling Station, NOD, Matrix and Speechless magazine. She also has a Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree in English and Creative Writing from the University of Calgary. Poets and Killers encompasses the experimental poetry genre through the use advertising language to tell the biography of a man from the 1940s until his death in 2010.[18]

• All our Grandfathers are Ghosts by Pasha Malla
• Jack by Mike Spry
• Variations on Holderlin by Geoffrey Hlibchuk

• The Olive and the Dawn by Ian Orti
• The Taste of Penny by Jeff Parker
• Generator by Ian Christopher Goodman
• Thresh by Kim Minkus
• Security Posture by Sarah Dowling

• Fake Math by Ryan Fitzpatrick
• Thumbscrews by Natalie Zina Walschots
• The Small blue by Jay Millar

• The Emily Valentine Poems by Zoe Whittal
• Dreadful Paris by Melisssa A. Thompson
• Rope Walk by Angela Carr
• Canada Post by Jason Christie[19]