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., Raise, and everyone else who offered insight and support.

Gap Riot Press is…

Photo credit Jesse Pajuaar.


Kate Siklosi

Kate Siklosi (she/her) is a Toronto writer, scholar, and responsible business witch. Her work includes seven 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

Dani Spinosa is a poet, scholar, educator, writer, and a computer programmer. She is President of Canthius, the Managing Editor of the Electronic Literature Directory, and the author of two books of poetry, Whispering Gallery (Assembly Press, 2026 forthcoming) and OO: Typewriter Poems (Invisible Publishing, 2020) and Anarchists in the Academy (U of Alberta Press, 2018).

Gap Riot’s logo, t-shirt, and button designs are all by Stace Schmidt-MacLean.

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

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