About
Gordon Hill Press & The Porcupine’s Quill
Gordon Hill Press and The Porcupine’s Quill are publishers of poetry, innovative fiction, lyric non-fiction, and literary criticism. We strive to publish exemplary writing by a diversity of writers and print physically beautiful books. We emphasize writers living with invisible disability through our Gordon Hill Press imprint. We also publish chapbook-length poetry through our Sheffield Chapbooks imprint.
Submissions
Send submissions to submit@gordonhillpress.com with your full name and manuscript title in the subject heading. Include a cover letter with a brief description of your completed manuscript, your bio statement, and your publication history. If submitting poetry, poetry criticism, or chapbooks, provide your whole manuscript. If submitting fiction or nonfiction, provide an excerpt of up to 25 pages. All submissions should be sent in .doc or .docx format.
We do not publish children's books, YA titles, self-help books, genre fiction, travel writing, or previously published manuscripts.
We read and respond to all submissions that comply with these guidelines. If you have complied and haven't heard from us after six months, please inquire.
Shane Neilson, Editor
Shane Neilson is a writer from New Brunswick. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph at Guelph-Humber, an MA in English from the University of Guelph, and a PhD in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster. He has extensive editorial experience in Canadian Literature, serving as the editor of Frog Hollow Press, a Victoria-based chapbook press for almost twenty years and counting; a prose editor at Anstruther Press, a Toronto-based chapbook press; and an associate editor at Hamilton Arts & Letters, an online magazine based out of Hamilton. In addition, Shane has worked with several Canadian presses to ready manuscripts for publication and has edited many of the poets and poetry critics at the forefront of Canadian literature and has a wealth of experience that he brings to bear with both poetry and nonfiction manuscripts. Shane does not freelance and only works closely with writers publishing with Frog Hollow, Anstruther, Hamilton Arts & Letters, and Gordon Hill Press.
Jeremy Luke Hill, Publisher
Jeremy Luke Hill was born in Guelph, Ontario. He completed both a BA and an MA in English Literature at the University of Guelph, and he's been working in the city's literary scene ever since. He founded Vocamus Writers Community, a non-profit organization that promotes book culture in the Guelph area. He also founded Vocamus Press, a local-centric micro-publisher that specializes in Guelph literature. Growing Gordon Hill Press as a national trade publisher is his next step in building literary capacity in the area.
Kevin Andrew Heslop, Extraliterary Liaison
Kevin Andrew Heslop (b. 1992) is a multidisciplinary artist from Canada. He made his poetry debut in 2021; curatorial, 2022; directorial, 2023; screenwriting, 2024. His nonfiction debut The Writing on the Wind’s Wall: Dialogues about 'Medical Assistance in Dying' is forthcoming in 2025 from The Porcupine’s Quill. Dialogues conducted during artist residencies from 2023 in Serbia, Finland, France, Brazil, Denmark, and Japan will appear in two volumes as Craft, Consciousness: Dialogues about the Arts with Guernica Editions in 2027 and 2028. Kevin is currently living in São Paulo to research his first feature film, a biopic about Zé Celso. Social media-shy, for more about Kevin’s practice: kevinandrewheslop.com.
Mary Hamilton, Proofreader
Mary Hamilton is a London, Ontario-based writer and editor. She holds a BA from Western University and a certificate in Creative Book Publishing from Humber College. She has previously collaborated with and edited work from emerging authors and journalists and hopes to have a role in shaping the next generation of Canadian literature.
Katherine Chupik-Hall, Social Media Coordinator
Katherine Chupik-Hall is a foundations student at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She works with the Munsee-Delaware nation as an illustrator, and is deeply passionate about using her art to inspire change. When she’s not illustrating, she can be found writing, spending time with animals, or failing miserably at cooking.