Gatherings Chapbook

Welcome to Gatherings the Chapbook, an occasional series of publications co-edited by Stephen Johnson and Jenn Cole and printed by Jackson’s Creek Press in Peterborough, Ontario.

Our mandate is to gather together short works that, in some measure and by some means, emerge from individual research through creative expression.  If this seems like an odd request--our belief is that it used to be, and isn't so much now, and shouldn't be.  That is the impetus behind this series.

We invite works of poetry, prose, diagrammatic playfulness of any kind, or drawing, performance traces, painting, photography, digital manipulations, and other works of art that we might be able to reproduce in a small volume.

As you read this, you may be asking a few questions--more than a few. If so, read the accompanying 'Manifesto'--that's right, we have a manifesto--and consider our goals. If you have comments, we would be very interested in hearing them. This is a work in progress. We hope it always will be.

Jenn Cole and Stephen Johnson, Co-Editors