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During the 1960s there was only one small press operating in the Maritimes: The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Series. Like other small presses, the Fiddlehead series grew out of the magazine The Fiddlehead which was published by the English Department at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Modeled in part on the Ryerson Press's Poetry Chapbook Series, the series, founded in 1925, served as the publishing vehicle for three generations of aspiring poets in Canada, particularly East Coast writers.
In 1968 two members of the Fiddlehead editorial board, Kent Thompson and Robert Gibbs founded a publishing venture similar to the Fiddlehead Poetry Book Series called The New Brunswick Chapbook Series. In contrast to the spartan design of the Fiddlehead Series, the new series was well designed and featured artwork by local artists.
New Brunswick Chapbooks (1968- )
David Adams Richards. Small Heroics. Fredericton: New Brunswick Chapbooks, 1972. No 18.
Richards’s first chapbook. Two years later, his first novel, The Coming of Winter, was published by Oberon Press.
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