Blank Cheque is a small press based in Vancouver and Toronto publishing eclectic books and print works by emerging artists and writers. Conceived while daydreaming in an overpriced shoe store, the series is edited by Jacquelyn Ross and produced in living rooms, studios and print shops. Contact: blankchequebooks [at] gmail [dot] com
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Ecstatic Essays No. 01 Nell Zink Is Damn Free By David Bradford
“To those who’ve read [Nell Zink], she seems at once better than us, out of her mind, a queen of the idiom, a king of the digression, sharp/concise/tangential, and/or the best possible ‘just keep at it’ success story.”
Ecstatic Essays is a series of pamphlets presenting nuanced opinions on obscure topics in arts & culture.
* David Bradford is a poet and MFA candidate at the University of Guelph. His work has appeared in various places, including Lemon Hound, Prairie Fire, and Toronto Lit Up’s The Unpublished City. He is the author of the chapbook Call Out (knife|fork|book, 2017). He edits knife|fork|book’s poetry imprint and splits his time between Montreal and Toronto.
20 page, saddle-stitched, risograph pamphlet 5 x 7 inches Edition of 100
June 2017
ISBN 978-0-9952644-1-0 $10 CDN > BUY!
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Drawings on Yellow Paper Drawings by Katie Lyle & Words by Jacquelyn Ross
“Now you’ve attached a folder of drawings—doodles you’re making on yellow copy paper—and the choreography transforms into a wavering line, brazen and strange, brave and uninvited. Are these the open-book thoughts of a woman contained? Drawings of cats, hats and body parts; horses, muscles, breasts and bugs…”
Inspired by the drawings of Toronto artist Katie Lyle, this book features Lyle’s works alongside new writing by Jacquelyn Ross. Channelling dreams, teevee, teenage romance and the absurd, Drawings on Yellow Paper reflects on the relationship between drawing and writing (a conversation between friends).
* Katie Lyle works in painting, drawing and performance. Selected projects include: G Gallery with Bridget Moser, Toronto; Evans Contemporary, Peterborough; Forest City Gallery with Shelby Wright, London ON (all 2016); Erin Stump Projects, Toronto; Model Project Space, Vancouver; Garden Gallery with Shelby Wright, Toronto; and The Nanaimo Art Gallery (all 2015). Lyle received her MFA from the University of Victoria (2009) and her BFA from Concordia University (2005).
* Jacquelyn Ross is a writer and critic based in Toronto, Canada. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, Mousse, C Magazine, The Capilano Review, artforum.com, and elsewhere, and her chapbooks include Mayonnaise and Drawings on Yellow Paper.
Printed and bound at Publication Studio Vancouver 148 pages, perfect-bound, with letterpress cover 5 ¼ x 7 ½ inches Edition of 125
ISBN 978-1-927385-39-5
September 2016 $20 CDN > BUY!
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Nascar: Stories by Steffanie Ling
Edited by Jacquelyn Ross
“Somehow, the idea of watching him, a sexy sports car, only emphasized the straightforwardness of mastery. A matter of hitting notes, a grasp of physique.”
In sixteen short stories punctuated by smoke breaks, writer and critic Steffanie Ling ponders questions of art and subsistence while relating her comically mundane misadventures alongside a band of struggling twenty-something painters, editors and merchandisers. Touching on topics like taste, mastery, straight white males and sparkling water—and in conversations in galleries and artist’s studios, on busses and park benches—these are concise, poignant stories that show a general disregard for one’s health. Against the languor of art, sarcasm and late capitalism, the gesture of the shared smoke may just be a small, but hopeful, offering of community.
* Steffanie Ling said she would quit smoking after this book was published. Her essays, poems and criticism about contemporary art, photography, cinema, literature, professional wrestling, and smoking have appeared in print and online in Canada, the United States and Europe. She has published one book of minimal poems, Cuts of Thin Meat (Spare Room, 2015). This is her first book of prose.
Printed and bound at Publication Studio Vancouver 138 pages, perfect-bound, with letterpress cover 5 x 6 3/4 inches Second Edition of 250
ISBN 978-1-927385-40-1
August 2016 $20 CDN > BUY!
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Young Adult // Issue No. 03
“Smashing Eggs on the Moonlit Grass”
Featuring texts by Daniella Sanader, Robert Dayton and Jaclyn Bruneau, with a special edition poster insert by Tiziana La Melia
Young Adult is a literary journal promoting new writing by emerging and established voices. Each issue includes a few short stories or otherwise prosey texts and a special edition artist poster. Edited by Jacquelyn Ross.
Printed and bound at Publication Studio Vancouver 78 pages, perfect-bound 6 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches Edition of 100
ISBN 978-0-9952644-0-3 March 2017
$20 CDN > BUY!
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Young Adult // Issue No. 02
“That Night At The Chateau”
Featuring texts by Marie-Helene Tessier, Jonathan Morissette and Kara Hansen, with a special edition poster insert by Hanna Hur
Young Adult is a literary journal promoting new writing by emerging and established voices. Each issue includes a few short stories or otherwise prosey texts and a special edition artist poster. Edited by Jacquelyn Ross.
Printed and bound at Publication Studio Vancouver 106 pages, perfect-bound 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches Edition of 85
ISBN 978-1-927385-38-8 June 2016
$15 CDN > BUY!
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Young Adult // Issue No. 01
“Friends Are Not The Same As Fans”
Featuring texts by Steve Hubert, Carey Mercer and Jacquelyn Ross, with a special edition poster insert by Kevin Killian.
Young Adult is a literary journal promoting new writing by emerging and established voices. Each issue includes a few short stories or otherwise prosey texts and a special edition artist poster. Edited by Jacquelyn Ross.
Printed and bound at Publication Studio Vancouver 88 pages, perfect-bound 6 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches Edition of 100
ISBN 978-1-927385-34-0 February 2016
$15 CDN > SOLD OUT!
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Mayonnaise: A Travelogue
By Jacquelyn Ross
"All my favourite writers are assholes."
Poems about San Francisco, Beat poetry, hotels and condiments.
* Jacquelyn Ross is a writer and critic based between Vancouver and Toronto. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, Mousse, C Magazine, The Capilano Review, artforum.com, and elsewhere, and her chapbooks include Mayonnaise and Drawings on Yellow Paper.
Printed and bound at Publication Studio Vancouver 56 pages, french-folded & perfect-bound 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches Edition of 50 April 2016
ISBN 978-1-927385-37-1
$20 CDN > SOLD OUT
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Distribution
Blank Cheque publications are currently available at the following locations:
- Publication Studio Vancouver (Vancouver) - Or Bookstore (Vancouver) - READ Books (Vancouver) - The Paper Hound (Vancouver) - Pulpfiction Books (Main Street, Vancouver)
- Likely General (Toronto) - Art Metropole (Toronto)
- Librairie Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal)
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Blank Cheque Pin Soft enamel with gold-plated clasp backing 1 in x 1 in $6 CDN > BUY!
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“Nature painting itself into existence” Tote Bag by Arvo Leo 12 oz cotton canvas Special edition of 50 $20 CDN > BUY!
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