Gap Riot Press publishes experimental, visual, innovative, and genre-blurring work by primarily Canadian poets that push the limits of poetry. Gap Riot Press is run collaboratively by women. Gap Riot Press is anarchist at its heart and communal by nature. Gap Riot Press manifests from the dire need for new voices not only in what we read and hear, but in the very production and publication of poetic texts. Gap Riot Press introduces a new invasive species of poetics and production that is radical, intersectional, and speaks contrasting volumes. Gap Riot Press began and continues in conversation.

We would like to acknowledge the support and feedback of our extended poetry, design, and publishing family including our excellent partners Richard Welch, Jesse Pajuäär, and our various poetry people locally and globally, our printer David Bernstein @ Product Photo Inc., the Ian Martin Group, and everyone else who offered insight and support.

Gap Riot Press is

Kate Siklosi (founding editor)

@SiklosiK (Twitter)

Kate Siklosi (she/her) is a Toronto writer, scholar, and responsible business witch. Her work includes six chapbooks of poetry and two full-length collections: leavings (Timglaset 2021) and Selvage (Invisible 2023). She is the curator of the Small Press Map of Canada.

Dani Spinosa (founding editor)

@genericpronoun (Twitter)

Dani Spinosa (she/her) is a poet of digital and print media, an on-again-off-again precarious professor, and the Managing Editor of the Electronic Literature Directory. She has published several chapbooks of poetry, several more peer-reviewed journal articles on poetry, one long scholarly book, and one pink poetry book.  

Gap Riot’s resident graphic designer is Stace Schmidt-MacLean.

Gap Riot prints chapbooks with David Bernstein at Product Photo Inc and makes t-shirts with Spin Marketing.