Our Collective is an initiative of a Spot of Poetry, an open-door gathering for poetry and word lovers, hosted at the Lunenburg Branch of the Southshore Library

Our Little Books include poetry, short fiction, memoir, and whatever lands in the hazy in-between. Our books are mostly handbound with textured paper and elegant design; a delight to read and hold.

Through craft workshops and collegial reviews, we embrace the communal nature of creativity (or what artist/writer Austin Kleon calls an “ecology of talent”) and we are committed to developing and strengthening our individual and collective practice. We learn by doing and each member participates in all phases of the development, publishing, and distribution of our publications.

We collaborated for the first time in 2023, when twelve of us gathered to embark on a collaborative journey, made possible, in part, with funding from the  South Shore Awesome Foundation.

We wrote, we learned, we reviewed, we edited, we designed, we printed, we bound, and we launched our books into the world.