MOUNT ZIONEDITIONS
EST. 2021 · OTTAWA · CANADA

A small press
for the long sentence.

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Mount Zion Editions publishes fiction, poetry, essays and the occasional translation — printed letterpress in Italy, bound by hand, shipped from Ottawa, eight to ten titles a year.

“A house style of quiet, almost severe attention. The catalogue grows on you the way a good library does.”The Paris Review—
“Mount Zion has done in three years what most independent presses do not manage in fifteen.”Times Literary Supplement—
“There is a deliberateness to these editions — to the paper, to the typography, to the silences between sentences — that is, in 2024, almost shocking.”NPR—
“A small Canadian press operating with the confidence of a European one.”The Quarterly Conversation—
“A house style of quiet, almost severe attention. The catalogue grows on you the way a good library does.”The Paris Review—
“Mount Zion has done in three years what most independent presses do not manage in fifteen.”Times Literary Supplement—
“There is a deliberateness to these editions — to the paper, to the typography, to the silences between sentences — that is, in 2024, almost shocking.”NPR—
“A small Canadian press operating with the confidence of a European one.”The Quarterly Conversation—
No. 01

This season.

All titles
Fiction
The Ledger
Samuel Okereke
$42
388 pp.
Monograph
The Monastery Keys
Liesel Bauer
$48
256 pp.
Fiction
The Salt Cathedral
Iva Marković
$38
312 pp.
Essays
A Plain Grammar of Attention
Theodora Hsiang
$28
184 pp.
The featured title — fiction

The Ledger

by Samuel Okereke

Three generations of an accounting family in Onitsha, told through the books they kept and the books they did not keep.

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Pages
388
ISBN
978-1-959-44213-3
Published
2024
No. 02

From the backlist.

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Poetry
Apiary
Ronan Eshleman
$24
96 pp.
Poetry
Apertures
Mira Kovač
$22
88 pp.
Reprinting
Fiction
The Cold Room
Aoife Ní Bhraonáin
$34
Back July 2026
Translation
First Snow on the Inland Sea
Hiroshi Tanase — tr. Aurelio Vega
$32
208 pp.
No. 03
The press

We publish eight to ten titles a year, in editions of fifteen hundred — printed letterpress in Verona, bound by hand, shipped in paper from a single mill in Maine. We are slow on purpose.