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📚 Artists' Books projects CFPR | UWE Bristol: Artists' Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Bristol Artist's Book Event | MA Printmaking Lead. https://linktr.ee/sarahbodman 📚

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · Mar 4

Hello Bluesky, I'll be posting artists' books news and info: the Book Arts Newsletter; Bristol Artist's Book Event, World Book Night, Blue Notebook journal, all inks in bio.

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 21h

Listings are open for the Artist’s Book Yearbook 2026-2027, it's a resource for artists, collectors, librarians, galleries, students, educators, publishers, researchers in artists’ books! Deadline to list 9th January 2026. All listings free. Download the form: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/artists-book...

Two cover designs for the Artist's Book Yearbook by Tom Sowden, and a sample page of artists' listings of their books.

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Art & Research - Academy @research-academy.bsky.social · Sep 3

OPEN CALL for research projects!

→ Apply for a one- or two-year research project
→ At the @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
→ Starting in September 2026

🖊 Apply before 3 November 2025

🔗 More info
www.ap-arts.be/en/submit-re...

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 2d

GAIA - Dialogues between the book arts, natural sciences & plant humanities is on show at the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts, Wits Art Museum, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. You can view all of the artworks, see installation views, and download a catalogue at: shorturl.at/itFM7

A poster for an exhibition called GAIA - Dialogues between the book arts, natural sciences & plant humanities with a picture of a bird.

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 3d

Based on the Wirral, @hazardpressuk.bsky.social is the imprint of queer poet and book artist Jeremy Dixon. Small runs often incorporate collage with the emphasis on handmade, happenstance, and recycling found text and images. We welcome him back to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall on 24/25 Oct

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 4d

If you'd like to join our mailing list, or maybe you'd like to propose a contribution, you can do so at:

draught[at]rca[dot]ac[dot]uk

Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 5d

Draught is now live!
www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

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John Bloor Printmaker @johnbloorprint.bsky.social · 4d

Apply now! We are a small print fair and only have a limited number of spaces although you can choose to do one day if you prefer.

Applications close at the end of November.

#printfair #printmaker #printmaking

"Winchester print fair is brilliantly organised...without a doubt becoming a national affair. A lovely place to be on a May Day." Quote from Jonny Hannah. Winchester Print Fair 2026. Apply now. winchesterprintfair.co.uk

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 4d

This weekend is BOP – Books on Photography – the annual photobook festival by Martin Parr Foundation held in Bristol, 11-12 October. The festival brings together a wide-ranging group of photobook publishers, artist talks, exhibitions, book signings, events etc. Free entry. bopbristol.org/bookfair/

An image showing an exhibitor at the Books on Photography Festival.

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The Blake Society @blakesociety.bsky.social · 12d

Infinite Liberty: Georges Bataille reading Blake in Postwar France - join us on zoom next Wednesday 8 October, 7:30 PM for Stuart Kendall's talk on the influence of Blake on French philosopher, Georges Bataille.
More info and FREE registration at blakesociety.org/product/infi...

Infinite Liberty: Georges Bataille reading Blake in Postwar France - The Blake Society

Stuart Kendall discusses the influence of Blake on French philiosopher, Georges Bataille.

blakesociety.org

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 6d

"Mark paid careful attention to the small things in the world around him and he made each of us complicit in his process."

Erica Van Horn on the much-missed artist Mark Pawson, a mainstay of the Fair, who passed away earlier this year. Read more about Mark:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/mark-pawson-...

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 11d

rotatory, 1993
24 whole-page illustrations cut into equal parts and reassembled as new pictures. The collages all include one part from each in its original position.
colinsackett.co.uk/images/manifold/p35.pdf
colinsackett.co.uk/images/manifold/p36.pdf
colinsackett.co.uk/images/manifold/p37.pdf

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 10d

Based in Cirencester, Andrew Morrison is a poet, book artist and printer working with woodcut, letterpress and potato prints. Books, prints and ephemera are typeset, printed and handbound; themes include memory, sequences, tokens and the zebra. You can find his work at #smallpublishersfair25

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 10d

Application forms are live now on babf.no for BABF2026 -

International artists and publishers have an early opportunity to apply by 15 Oct.

There is NO FEE to table at Bergen Art Book Fair. Full details on the website. Fair is 10 – 12 April 2026.

Poster for the Bergen Art Book Fair inviting international publishers to apply by 15 Oct. Fair is 10 – 12 April 2026.

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 11d

Impact Press will be at the Small Publishers Fair soon, 24-25 October at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London. @smallpublishers.bsky.social
We’ll be selling the Artist’s Book Yearbook 2024-2025 at a special price of £10 come along and get a copy!
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2...

Invitation for the Small Publishers Fair - listing all exhibitors and the featured exhibition by Erica Van Horn.

Cover Image of the Artist’s Book Yearbook 2024-2025 produced by Tom Sowden prompting DALL·E to design it.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14d

"What is gained in narrating from the perspective of a polar bear, a clam, or famously, a cockroach? This panel explores the idea of “interspecies translation” and how the languages of the animal, aquatic, and otherwise natural world inform the way we approach narrative and storytelling."

2025 Day of Translation Panel 3: Interspecies Translation

YouTube video by The Center for Fiction

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 14d

Deadline for proposals: Midday, Tuesday 21st of October:

Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social · 19d

GWL is commissioning new works for our #WeMakeMuseums project to be exhibited at Glasgow International 2026.

We’re seeking women artists with socially engaged, intersectional practices informed by environmental, class-aware, & anti-racist approaches.
womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/24/a...

A colourful jigsaw puzzle background with words like “Creativity,” “Women,” “Neurodivergent Voices,” “Learning and Healing,” and “Quilting” on the pieces. Overlaid in the centre is a bold green box with large white text that reads: “ARTIST OPEN CALL.” At the bottom are the logos of Glasgow Women’s Library and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 14d

The new call for entries for the Herzog August Bibliothek Artist’s Book Prize 2026 is now open. Create a new work in response to the collection. Prize: €6,000 plus a four-week residency at HAB in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Application deadline: 31st December 2025. Info at:
www.hab.de/en/artists-b...

Image: Acheiropoieta by Clifton Meador (2020). A picture of a woman from photographs in the collection, reworked in colour.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 25d

Interested in exploring rare books, archives, or book history in Antwerp? Applications for the 2025 Nottebohm Fellowship are open for 2 more weeks: tinyurl.com/applyNB

Fellowship Programme | Museum Plantin-Moretus

The Plantin-Moretus Museum and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...

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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 17d

We're accepting applications for our fall online course, A Bibliographical Introduction to the Hand-Press Period. The course, taught by @wynkenhimself.bsky.social, runs Sundays, 10/19-12/14. Application deadline is Fri 10/10. More at rarebookschool.org/fall-online-course-thinking-bibliographically

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 20d

Are you an early career researcher with an interest in our collection? Apply to develop an independent research project funded by AHRC.

Hear more about the opportunity at a virtual town hall event on Monday 6 October: bit.ly/BL-EarlyCare...

A group of students sat at a table examining documents and books from the Library's collection.

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 17d

SUBTERRANEANS II by Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social

New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social

LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH

burninghousepress.com/2025/09/26/s...

Subterraneans ii by Paul Hearn

Part-time collagist and amateur bricoleur, Paul has always been infatuated with pop music and comics. Bluesky @paulxhearn.bsky.social

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 18d

The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists’ books Volume 20 No 1, Autumn – Winter 2025 is now ready for free download at:
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/blue-notebook/
Articles by Corina Reynolds, Abigail Reynolds, Ruth Hallinan, Christine (Cheng) Dong and Eliza Strong. Featured artist: Yunqi Peng.

Cover image: Yunqi Peng - a picture of a book with strips of coloured papers like bookmarks printed with text arranged inside it.

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Senate House Library @senatehouselib.bsky.social · 26d

Have you had a chance to see Spineless Wonders yet? Take advantage of the Open House festival this year and come check it out

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 22d

Looking forward to this👇with work by @joedevlin.bsky.social @sarahbodman.bsky.social @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social SJ Fowler, Stephen Emmerson, David Blackmore, Michael Hampton, et al. 🔥🔥🔥🕊

Joe Devlin @joedevlin.bsky.social · 22d

BOOKMORPHS opening soon at the Hellenic centre. See link below.

helleniccentre.org/event/bookmo...

BOOKMORPHS: Artists' Books from Greece & the UK – Hellenic Centre

helleniccentre.org

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 23d

Terrie Reddish and I recorded a talk for 'BIND25 - preserving the past and crafting the future', Association of Book Crafts New Zealand conference. We discuss aspects of bookmaking in all its forms and ways to get involved in the communities of its practices, at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWo...

Slide images from a talk showing the Libris Awards, Association of Polish Bookbinders, London Centre for Book Arts, Codex Polaris.

Slide images from a talk showing Galerie Druck & Buch, UWE letterpress studios, Herzog August Bibliothek, Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius.

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 23d

We’re all set up at the Anarchist Book Fair on Leake Street - surrounded by #graffiti, #zines and anarchy. (So what else is new?)

Here until 6! Come and see us!

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