Our mission is to provide emerging writers with the opportunity to have their voices heard and their work published. Soapbox
noun
1.
A box or crate for packing soap.
2. Something that provides an opportunity for someone to share their views publicly. Here at The Soap Box, we fall into the latter category. Founded in 2016, The Soap Box is a publication dedicated to publishing the work of talented, budding writers, allowing them the opportunity to have their voices heard. Simultaneously, The Soap Box strives to create a community for writers and artists to inspire and support the creative process.
Help us celebrate 7 years! 📚
Our final Open Mic and Celebration is TONIGHT!
Join us for music, poetry, and stand-up comedy. We have quite a line up of diverse artists. Our backlist will also be 50% OFF! Stock up on all your faves 🥰
Let's go out with a bang, TSB! 🥳🎤
Our Open Mic and Celebration is TOMORROW! 🥳🎤
Here's an updated performer line up. Stop by Creeds Coffee Bar to say hello and watch these awesome artists live!
Open Mic lineup! 📣🥳📚🎤
Who's excited to see these artists at our event? Thank you to all who have signed up! TSB books will be 50% off for the duration of the event! Be sure to stop by, listen to the performers, and stock up on your TSB favourites.
Spring has Sprung and so will our event ... in 7 days!
Our Open Mic and Celebration is only one week away, can you believe it?! 🥳
If you haven't yet, register through our Eventbrite page (link in bio) and send us a DM if you want to preform!
We're counting down the days until we can celebrate with you 🥰📣🤩
What can you expect at our Open Mic and Celebration?
Art, music, prose, poetry, and Shopping! We will have our backlist available for purchase. Now's the time to refill your TSB favourites! 📚📖
We're so excited to see you!
HEY! In case you haven't heard.....
May 4th, 6:30 - 8:30 PM @ Creeds Coffee Bar, Toronto
Join us! We want to celebrate you, and us, and all things TSB 🥳
Register for the event with the link in our bio!
Throughout our 7 years, we've hosted quite a few open mics .... what better way to celebrate our community than having one last performance!? 🥰
We are so thankful for all your hard work, talent, and commitment to the TSB family.
Have you signed up for the open mic yet? Send us a DM!
Thank you for sending us off with our favourite kind of event! 🎤📣
Have you ever been to Creeds Coffee Bar in Toronto?
It's a fabulous place for our Open Mic Celebration - we can't wait to see you there! Drinks and food are available for purchase, as well as our backlist of books. 📣🤩🥳
Remember to register for the event on our Eventbrite page - link is in the bio. And send us a DM if you want to participate in the open mic! 🎤
Our community is one of the best parts of TSB! Help us celebrate 7 years of art, creative writing, and community on May 4th at our open mic 📣🤩
Sign up for the open mic by sending us a DM! But hurry, spots are filling up fast.
Also, check out our Eventbrite page to register for the event:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-mic-and-celebration-with-the-soap-box-press-tickets-616489184747?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
We’re celebrating seven years of The Soap Box Press with an open mic! 🎉
Before we close our doors, we're bringing our community together one more time to revel in art, creative writing, and the wonderful community we've built.
If you would like to perform in the open mic, send us a DM on Instagram or an email at [email protected]. Act fast because spots are limited!
All of our backlist titles (that are still in stock) will be available for your perusal and purchase.
Sign up for tickets through our eventbrite page : https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-mic-and-celebration-with-the-soap-box-press-tickets-616489184747
We look forward to celebrating with you! 🥰
Over the last seven years, The Soap Box Press was driven by a goal to create an accessible platform that publishes the work of emerging and established writers. With the help of our small but mighty publishing team and our dedicated authors, we have established a community for writers and artists where the creative process is supported and nurtured.
We have been quiet for the last couple of months because we've made the difficult decision to no longer publish new titles at The Soap Box Press. We are so proud of all we have accomplished in the micro-press space since 2016.
We'd like to extend a special thank you to you, our creative and supportive community. We are incredibly grateful for every event you’ve attended, each book you’ve purchased, and each time we came together to celebrate and connect.
Our website will remain live and all of the titles we have in stock will still be available for purchase. Please consider continuing to support our authors; every book purchase makes a difference!
We look forward to gathering one more time for a celebratory event in spring 2023. Stay tuned for more details!
Today is the day!
Our launch is TONIGHT🤩🌸😍🥳📣
November 19, 2022 from 4:00PM - 6:00PM ET
Supermarket Bar and Variety
268 Augusta Ave, Toronto, ON M5T 2L9
See you there!
Our launch is TOMORROW! 🤩😍🥳📣
Don't walk, RUN, to our Eventbrite page, before tickets run out 🏃♀️🏃
We can't wait to celebrate an evening full of books with you.
2 more sleeps until our launch! We are so excited to see you in person after three long years.
Get your tickets through our Eventbrite! Link in bio. 🥳😍📣
We have author spotlights!
Come to our launch on November 19th to meet these authors and get a copy of their books!
Link to our eventbrite is in bio.
Join us on November 19th to see our guest reader... Lamia Firasta!
Lamia’s poetry explores the intersection between cultural identity, and personal healing. She draws inspiration from her background in psychology as well as her personal life, as a woman, artist, researcher and mental health advocate, aspiring to write poetry that captures the shared human experience. Oblivion is her debut poetry collection.
As part of Lamia’s advocacy work, 25% of all book sale proceeds will be donated to Distress Centres of Greater Toronto Distress Centres of Greater Toronto
Pre order her book: https://lamiartpoetry.weebly.com/ #/
Connect with her here: linktr.ee/lamiart__
Look at this lineup of talented writers!
This is our current list of readers who will be participating in our launch on November 19th! We are so excited to celebrate our fall releases with you.
Be sure to support your favourite authors by picking up copies of their books, available for purchase online or at the launch.
Check the link in our bio for launch tickets!
You’re formally invited ! 🎉 😀 🚨 🤩
We’re launching three new books this season. Stop by our launch on November 19th for readings from:
1) Mo Nighean: The Universe Inside the Comma
2) Scream it at the Back Wall
3) Grief Grows Elsewhere
We are so excited to see you! Grab a copy of your favourite release online or at the launch. Event tickets in our bio.
Can the back wall hear it???? 📣
The theme of our upcoming anthology "Scream it at the Back Wall" encourages to let all your feelings out - the good, the bad, the ugly. We want to hear them, and we want the people at the back of the room to hear it too! Head to our website for submission guidelines! Link in bio.
There's a lot going on right now. Just a reminder to be gentle with yourself
We are accepting submissions!
Chapbook: open call.
Anthology: Scream it at the Back Wall.
Submit your work! If selected, authors are showcased in a public work and receive an honorarium.
More info on our website! Link in bio.
Just a reminder for everyone 🥰
Our goal at TSB is to give our writers a platform. There's a lot going on in the world. Writing has been and will always be a creative form of release! When do you feel like writing?
We have an open call!
What do you want to write about? 👀
In the wise words of William Wordsworth ^^^
Writing can be cathartic. The theme for our upcoming anthology is "Scream it at the Back Wall" - a topic that hopefully will allow our writers a much-needed release of emotion! Link in Bio to learn more.
Submissions are officially OPEN! 📣
From today until APRIL 18TH, we're accepting submissions for:
1) CHAPBOOKS (available to writers residing in Canada.) 🇨🇦
2) ANTHOLOGY - OPEN CALL (Theme: SCREAM it at the Back Wall). 🌏📣
For more information and to submit your work, check out our website at thesoapboxpress.com. Link in Bio!
SUBMISSIONS OPEN ...... TOMORROW! (March 1st)😍🤩
From March 1st until April 18th, TSB has two submission categories open! 📅
Go to thesoapboxpress.com to read more about our submission guidelines and to submit your work! link in BIO. Keep reading for more details ⬇️
1) CHAPBOOKS!
A chapbook is typically a collection of poetry that is 48 pages or less. We’ve decided to redefine what a chapbook means at The Soap Box Press. We are now accepting a collection of absolutely anything. Send us your best work, no matter the medium. *NOTE: Chapbook call is only open to writers living in Canada. 🇨🇦
2) ANTHOLOGIES- OPEN CALL! (SCREAM it at the Back Wall) 📣 📣 📣
For this anthology, we’re inviting you to pour out your feelings through words. Tell us what makes you angry, what frustrates you, what upsets you more than anything else – no matter how big or small. Put it into a poem, short story, or creative non-fiction piece and send it our way. We want to hear it.
*NOTE: This is open to writers world-wide 🌏
We can't wait to publish your stories! 📚
Glimpse inside "The Hyphenated Generation" ✨
Sneak peak at Khashayar Mohammadi's work! To read their full piece, shop the collection on our website! Link in bio.
How do you celebrate identity and culture? 🙌
The Hyphenated Generation is an anthology of poems and short stories by writers who immigrated to Canada, or are the children of immigrants, that explores the feeling of living in between two cultures and identities.
Check it out! Link in bio to shop. 🥰
What's your current read? Are you enjoying it?
Leave a comment below and let us know if you recommend your read! It's time for an updated TBR. 🤩
How are you celebrating love today? 🥰✨
Check out "Jagged Edge" TSB's first ever romance novel! This book is a whirlwind of love, passion, and mystery. It also makes the perfect date for V-Day! Link to shop in bio.
Have you read "Jagged Edge" yet? 😍
This novel is one of a kind - the only romance book on the TSB roster. It deserves a special spotlight this month, along with the spectacular authors Cindy Aronson and Tamara Herman. You can find them online at ✨
Get your copy, or GIFT a copy, in e-book or book form! Check out our website for purchase info. .
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Synopsis:
The longing for connection with another person is powerful enough to sweep away fear and common sense, seducing even the most stubborn and detached souls with the promise of wholeness – even if those connections mean confronting old demons.
Lily Stone and Ryder Bishop, both survivors of childhood abuse and neglect, experience an overwhelming desire for the other – the intensity of their emotional and physical relationship binds them with an unexpected force. But Ryder has a secret from his past that connects them on an even deeper level – a secret that could destroy their connection.
Jagged Edge by Cindy Aronson and Tamara Herman draws readers into a decadent world of passion and pleasure, where two fragile hearts must find the strength to overcome emotional trauma and psychological pain to heal each other.
Are you in love?
Every day is Valentine's Day when you fall in love with reading. Celebrate your special day with a book haul! Check out www.thesoapboxpress.com for all things bookish. Pamper yourself with some TSB literature this month (and every month). 😍
Happy Holidays !
It’s been a challenging year, and we’d like to take a moment to thank the TSB community. To all of our staff, followers, authors, and readers: we wouldn’t have made it through the year without you. Thank you for all your love and support! We’re so excited to share our 2022 plans with you.
Cheers to a New Year ✨
It’s that time of year where nothing feels better than a hot cop of tea and a book by the fire 🥶 📖 ❄️
Treat yourself this winter season by browsing the TSB shop! Check out our a test anthology, “The Hyphenated Generation” out now! Available through the link in our bio 🤗
Are you shopping local this season? ❄️
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Check out our newest anthology, “The Hyphenated Generation”, out now! Only available for purchase through our website, link in bio ➡️🛍🎄
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The launch for this anthology was a great success, and we are so grateful to all our writers, readers, and followers for the amazing event. Thank you for sharing your experiences and creating such an intimate and supportive atmosphere 🤗❤️ and thank you to the for making it possible
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Author Line Up! 📚 (PART 2)
👉🏼swipe to read about our featured writers in our upcoming anthology! Show their work some love by checking out their tagged profiles 🖊💛📖
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Join us on DEC 2nd at 7PM EST to celebrate “The Hyphenated Generation” with these lovely authors and our TSB community!
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There’s still time to register for the event! Eventbrite link on our profile bio 🎉 Zoom link to be sent to your email upon registration.
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We appreciate all our followers, talented authors, and the help of the that made this anthology possible ☺️🎉
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See you on DECEMBER 2nd on ZOOM!
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