It's Our Birthday

It’s our birthday! We barely noticed, but it’s been one year this week since we rolled out on social media and opened for business.

We’ve grown a lot since then. We went from this:

To this:

From an abandoned Japanese hotel to millennials who are engaging with their books in interesting new ways, the metaphor of progress is thinly veiled.

Seriously guys, thank you to everyone who submitted their work, made a donation, read our stories, and shared our posts. Without you, this infant of a passion project would have never got off the ground.

It’s been a crazy year and we can’t wait to see how much we grow in the next. We hope to see you then!

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Jo Ramsay

is a Canadian editor and writer. She’s worked in publishing for four years and continues to pursue opportunities in Canada and abroad. She’s worked at two publishing houses (Arsenal Pulp Press and Greystone Books) and was the blog and opinions editor at The Ubyssey newspaper. She’s lived in Canada, the UK, and Japan.

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