About Us

About

Gordon Hill Press & The Porcupine's Quill are publishers of poetry, innovative fiction, lyric nonfiction, and literary criticism. We publish exemplary writing by a diversity of Canadian authors, and we print physically beautiful editions through several imprints.

  • The Porcupine's Quill – Full-length titles of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and criticism.
  • Gordon Hill Press – Full-length titles by authors with invisible disability.
  • The Sheffield Chapbooks – Chapbook-length titles of poetry by New Brunswick authors.
  • mad / sick / different – Chapbook-length titles of poetry by disabled authors
  • Scrummage Chapbooks – Chapbook-length titles for anything else you can imagine.

Submissions

Our submissions are open. Please 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, provide an excerpt of up to 25 pages. All submissions should be sent in .doc or .docx format. If submitting nonfiction, you should do so through our Molly Peacock Nonfiction Prize. Please only submit only one unsolicited manuscript per year.

We do not publish children's books, YA titles, self-help books, genre fiction, travel writing, or previously published manuscripts.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 send an inquiry.

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 & The Porcupine's Quill in Guelph is his next step in building literary capacity in the area.

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.

River Street Writing, Publicity

River Street Writing has over two decades of experience working with award-winning brands and artists from around the world. They pride themselves on being the most well-rounded gaggle of wordsmiths and bibliophiles out there, offering up their expertise and passion to create and amplify exceptional writing.