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Metatron Press

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Metatron Press is an independent literary publisher based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, dedicated to the writers, artists, and forms shaping the future of literature.

Founded in 2014, Metatron publishes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, experimental prose, and hybrid work by emerging and boundary-pushing voices. Our catalogue is rooted in experimentation, emotional clarity, cultural urgency, and a deep belief in language as a living force. We are drawn to work that shifts perception: writing that is intimate, strange, precise, rebellious, tender, funny, raw, mystical, political, and formally alive.

Over the past decade, Metatron has published 50+ books, launched 70+ events, and helped nurture a generation of writers working at the edges of contemporary literature. Our authors include queer, trans, nonbinary, racialized, diasporic, and experimental practitioners whose work expands what publishing can hold, how a book can move through the world, and who gets to be seen as part of literary history.

Metatron began as a press for new voices and has grown into a multidimensional literary platform. Alongside our print catalogue, we have built a constellation of digital publishing projects, literary archives, podcasts, readings, workshops, and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Through platforms such as ÖMËGÄ, GLYPHÖRIA, Digi Pubs, and Metacösm, we have published and featured work by hundreds of poets, writers, artists, editors, performers, and collaborators across poetry, sound, video, image, interview, essay, translation, long-form digital literature, and multimedia poetics.

We believe publishing does not end with the book. It continues through conversation, performance, friendship, circulation, experimentation, and the communities that gather around language. A poem can become a book, a reading, a website, a sound piece, a video, a room full of people, a digital archive, a collaboration, a memory. Metatron exists to make these transformations possible.

Our events are central to this vision. For over a decade, Metatron has created luminous spaces for poetry to become real in the world: readings in bookstores, lofts, galleries, parks, studios, theatres, and online rooms across Montréal, Toronto, New York, and beyond. Equal parts launch platform, reading series, friendship network, and cultural portal, these gatherings have featured more than 210 authors and artists, helping define a distinct Montréal literary atmosphere: intimate, experimental, queer, interdisciplinary, and alive. They have even served as inspiration for the poetry readings in the film Mile End Kicks.

At its core, Metatron is a press, a portal, and a community infrastructure. We publish books, but we also build atmospheres around them. We make space for writers historically excluded from mainstream publishing while insisting that literature can remain porous, playful, rigorous, stylish, and transformative.

Metatron Press exists to give new literature a body, a room, a scene, and a future.

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