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The Foundry has produced a variety of written projects. The Yellow Snow Chapbooks are the most numerous (and still accumulating), with loRES just beginning to develop. Also included here is a bibliography of books that have been interesting, unusual and inspiring for us. Please contact us with any feedback on the words pages or any other part of Foundrysite, we enjoy hearing from you!

The Foundry's main written projects have been the Yellow Snow Chapbooks. The Yellow Snow Literary Group was begun as a "serious joke," a kind of humourous rival to Black Ice Books, a publisher of some rather interesting material. It was the perception among certain parties that the Black Ice folk took themselves a bit too seriously, something frequently observed in the avant garde art world. Much discussion took place and a course of action was arrived at. On the night of a Black Ice signing and party at a local bookstore a group of conspirators arrived with the first Yellow Snow chapbook in hand and name tags sporting the moniker "Anon." A chilly reception ensued and Yellow Snow was off and running.

Black Ice, Yellow Snow, just a play on words, but it has provided an avenue for many different creative ideas, and so has taken on a life of its own, enduring long after the single event for which it was conceived. Yellow Snow has produced nearly a score of chapbooks since its inception, with more projects to come.

What follows is a list of titles for every chapbook produced thus far, even several done before Yellow Snow came into being. To investigate further, please click on any title. Click here for a definition of chapbook. See comments on the chapbooks here