MANDATE
Gridlock Lit is a community-building micropress based out of Fredericton, New Brunswick. We pulish stately zines from friendly elms, poets from the corner, and new chapbooks from the grid.
PEOPLE WE LIKE
We acknowledge with respect and admiration our friends and neighbors in Demand the Stars, Emergency Flash Mob Press, FEILDS, The Fiddlehead, It's Burning Off, The Nashwaak Review, QT Fatties NB, Qwerty Magazine, and Rabbit Town Press. Gridlock logo design by Gwen Hunter.
TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We acknowledge that the land on which we gather and operate is the traditional, unceded, and unsurrendered territory of the Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq Peoples. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship,” which Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) and Mi’kmaq Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jamie Kitts (she/her/hers) is a PhD student living on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Wolastoqiyik People. She is the author of two chapbooks: Girl Dinner (Emergency Flash Mob Press, 2024) and All Things to Keep You Here (w/Egg Poets, Qwerty Homerow, 2023). Her poetry has appeared in FLOURISH Fest 2020 Zine, Qwerty Magazine, The Malahat Review, Augur Magazine, Poetry Weekend Reader, Poetry Pause, new words {press}, and Plenitude. She is also Co-Managing Editor and Homerow Chapbook Series Editor at Qwerty Magazine.