Calque Press
@calquepress.bsky.social
A small & occasional press of pamphlets, short-length books and anthologies. We work at the intersection between languages, ideas, crafts, genres. Pre-order: RAGGED BAND OF TRAVELLERS. (ed Jon Stone)
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A short post in two parts in support of @argonautbooks.bsky.social 💙 (1/2):
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A short post in two parts in support of @argonautbooks.bsky.social 💙 (1/2):
ICYMI: We are extending #WomenInTranslationMonth a little bit, and running this offer until Friday!!!
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September 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
ICYMI: We are extending #WomenInTranslationMonth a little bit, and running this offer until Friday!!!
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Head to: www.calquepress.com
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Head to: www.calquepress.com
We are taking a short break.
If you have been thinking about placing an order, you can still do it until Monday 4th midday (BST). All orders received after that time will have to be shipped from 20th August.
Thank you for supporting independent publishing!
If you have been thinking about placing an order, you can still do it until Monday 4th midday (BST). All orders received after that time will have to be shipped from 20th August.
Thank you for supporting independent publishing!
August 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We are taking a short break.
If you have been thinking about placing an order, you can still do it until Monday 4th midday (BST). All orders received after that time will have to be shipped from 20th August.
Thank you for supporting independent publishing!
If you have been thinking about placing an order, you can still do it until Monday 4th midday (BST). All orders received after that time will have to be shipped from 20th August.
Thank you for supporting independent publishing!
40 QUESTIONS ABOUT A POLITICAL PLAY, by @bydanobrien.bsky.social is here. All pre-orders shipping today. You can still get a copy of the 100 copies limited edition at www.calquepress.com
#CalqueIdeas #essay #indiepublishing #playwriting #limitededition #pamphlet #chapbook
#CalqueIdeas #essay #indiepublishing #playwriting #limitededition #pamphlet #chapbook
July 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
40 QUESTIONS ABOUT A POLITICAL PLAY, by @bydanobrien.bsky.social is here. All pre-orders shipping today. You can still get a copy of the 100 copies limited edition at www.calquepress.com
#CalqueIdeas #essay #indiepublishing #playwriting #limitededition #pamphlet #chapbook
#CalqueIdeas #essay #indiepublishing #playwriting #limitededition #pamphlet #chapbook
New in July: 40 QUESTIONS ABOUT A POLITICAL PLAY, by @bydanobrien.bsky.social
Does anybody truly want to see a political play? What is a political play? What does it mean to think about politics in art? A masterful investigation of what it means to create.
calquepress.com/collections/...
Does anybody truly want to see a political play? What is a political play? What does it mean to think about politics in art? A masterful investigation of what it means to create.
calquepress.com/collections/...
June 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New in July: 40 QUESTIONS ABOUT A POLITICAL PLAY, by @bydanobrien.bsky.social
Does anybody truly want to see a political play? What is a political play? What does it mean to think about politics in art? A masterful investigation of what it means to create.
calquepress.com/collections/...
Does anybody truly want to see a political play? What is a political play? What does it mean to think about politics in art? A masterful investigation of what it means to create.
calquepress.com/collections/...
Exciting times at the Calque office! These two limited-edition beauties are here.
Order at calquepress.com
Order at calquepress.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Exciting times at the Calque office! These two limited-edition beauties are here.
Order at calquepress.com
Order at calquepress.com
Happy World Poetry Day! A feast for troubadours and trolls, nerds and necromancers! RAGGED BAND OF TRAVELLERS, edited by @shotscarecrow.bsky.social, is an anthology of D'n'D adjacent poetry and prose that will knock your socks off and sell them to the goblins. Cover art by Vince Haig. Forthcoming.
March 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Happy World Poetry Day! A feast for troubadours and trolls, nerds and necromancers! RAGGED BAND OF TRAVELLERS, edited by @shotscarecrow.bsky.social, is an anthology of D'n'D adjacent poetry and prose that will knock your socks off and sell them to the goblins. Cover art by Vince Haig. Forthcoming.
Thank you, British Science Fiction Association, what an honour to be included among so many admired friends! Congratulations to @maudmarianw.bsky.social & everyone else on the list.
February 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Thank you, British Science Fiction Association, what an honour to be included among so many admired friends! Congratulations to @maudmarianw.bsky.social & everyone else on the list.
January 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Calque Ideas #9:
This Map Is Yours or How Videogames, Their Forms, and Their Art Have Saved Me
In this set of linked personal essays by @mcflycahill90.bsky.social videogames function as healing objects, providing a vocabulary and a set of tools to negotiate pressures both from within and without.
This Map Is Yours or How Videogames, Their Forms, and Their Art Have Saved Me
In this set of linked personal essays by @mcflycahill90.bsky.social videogames function as healing objects, providing a vocabulary and a set of tools to negotiate pressures both from within and without.
January 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Calque Ideas #9:
This Map Is Yours or How Videogames, Their Forms, and Their Art Have Saved Me
In this set of linked personal essays by @mcflycahill90.bsky.social videogames function as healing objects, providing a vocabulary and a set of tools to negotiate pressures both from within and without.
This Map Is Yours or How Videogames, Their Forms, and Their Art Have Saved Me
In this set of linked personal essays by @mcflycahill90.bsky.social videogames function as healing objects, providing a vocabulary and a set of tools to negotiate pressures both from within and without.
Calque Ideas 2025: Politics, video games, horror, the future, and even our first fiction. Words by Martin Cahill, Kathleen Rani Hagen (photo credit: Lina Hindrum), Brian J. Showers, Aliya Whiteley, and Dan O'Brien (photo credit: Cambridge Jones).
Excited to tell you more over the next few days!
Excited to tell you more over the next few days!
January 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Calque Ideas 2025: Politics, video games, horror, the future, and even our first fiction. Words by Martin Cahill, Kathleen Rani Hagen (photo credit: Lina Hindrum), Brian J. Showers, Aliya Whiteley, and Dan O'Brien (photo credit: Cambridge Jones).
Excited to tell you more over the next few days!
Excited to tell you more over the next few days!
You still have time to join our newsletter and enter a the draw for one of the two copies of @maudmarianw.bsky.social's LOST OBJECTS that we are giving away. Open worldwide.
calquepress.com/pages/contact
calquepress.com/pages/contact
December 12, 2024 at 1:45 PM
You still have time to join our newsletter and enter a the draw for one of the two copies of @maudmarianw.bsky.social's LOST OBJECTS that we are giving away. Open worldwide.
calquepress.com/pages/contact
calquepress.com/pages/contact
📣COMPETITION ALERT!!! 📣
Would you like a copy of Marian Womack's astonishing, beautiful, LOST OBJECTS?
We have two available to a good home: all you need to do is sign up to our newsletter.
Competition open worldwide until 1300 UK time on Friday.
➡️ JOIN HERE: calquepress.com/pages/contact
Would you like a copy of Marian Womack's astonishing, beautiful, LOST OBJECTS?
We have two available to a good home: all you need to do is sign up to our newsletter.
Competition open worldwide until 1300 UK time on Friday.
➡️ JOIN HERE: calquepress.com/pages/contact
December 10, 2024 at 10:22 AM
📣COMPETITION ALERT!!! 📣
Would you like a copy of Marian Womack's astonishing, beautiful, LOST OBJECTS?
We have two available to a good home: all you need to do is sign up to our newsletter.
Competition open worldwide until 1300 UK time on Friday.
➡️ JOIN HERE: calquepress.com/pages/contact
Would you like a copy of Marian Womack's astonishing, beautiful, LOST OBJECTS?
We have two available to a good home: all you need to do is sign up to our newsletter.
Competition open worldwide until 1300 UK time on Friday.
➡️ JOIN HERE: calquepress.com/pages/contact
OUT TODAY!
LOST OBJECTS, in a new revised edition:
🔸 Introduction by Priya Sharma
🔸 Author interview by @timothyjjarvis.bsky.social
“Chockfull of interesting ideas about the natural world and ourselves.” Jeff VanderMeer
"Highlights everything that speculative fiction excels at." Nina Allan
LOST OBJECTS, in a new revised edition:
🔸 Introduction by Priya Sharma
🔸 Author interview by @timothyjjarvis.bsky.social
“Chockfull of interesting ideas about the natural world and ourselves.” Jeff VanderMeer
"Highlights everything that speculative fiction excels at." Nina Allan
November 29, 2024 at 10:14 AM
OUT TODAY!
LOST OBJECTS, in a new revised edition:
🔸 Introduction by Priya Sharma
🔸 Author interview by @timothyjjarvis.bsky.social
“Chockfull of interesting ideas about the natural world and ourselves.” Jeff VanderMeer
"Highlights everything that speculative fiction excels at." Nina Allan
LOST OBJECTS, in a new revised edition:
🔸 Introduction by Priya Sharma
🔸 Author interview by @timothyjjarvis.bsky.social
“Chockfull of interesting ideas about the natural world and ourselves.” Jeff VanderMeer
"Highlights everything that speculative fiction excels at." Nina Allan
Good morning! What are you reading today?
November 20, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Good morning! What are you reading today?
Hello there! We are new here & we have a new book out @maudmarianw.bsky.social's OUT OF THE WINDOW, INTO THE DARK
In a nutshell: "Uses speculative genres to engage with the anxieties of our times: authorship and the rise of generative AI to climate change, nostalgia, loneliness, legacy and power."
In a nutshell: "Uses speculative genres to engage with the anxieties of our times: authorship and the rise of generative AI to climate change, nostalgia, loneliness, legacy and power."
November 17, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Hello there! We are new here & we have a new book out @maudmarianw.bsky.social's OUT OF THE WINDOW, INTO THE DARK
In a nutshell: "Uses speculative genres to engage with the anxieties of our times: authorship and the rise of generative AI to climate change, nostalgia, loneliness, legacy and power."
In a nutshell: "Uses speculative genres to engage with the anxieties of our times: authorship and the rise of generative AI to climate change, nostalgia, loneliness, legacy and power."