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Joanne Merriam

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Late in the day daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: two CBC Massey Lectures through @houseofanansi.bsky.social: @astra.bsky.social’s The Age of Insecurity & @alexneve.bsky.social’s Universal: houseofanansi.com/collections/...

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Book covers for two CBC Massey Lectures through House of Anansi: Astra Taylor’s The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (https://houseofanansi.com/collections/the-massey-lectures/products/the-age-of-insecurity) and Alex Neve’s Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World (https://houseofanansi.com/collections/the-massey-lectures/products/universal). In the former, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises—rising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianism—originate from a social order built on insecurity; in the latter, human rights activist and former secretary general of Amnesty International Canada Alex Neve investigates where we went wrong, how we have progressed, and what we can do to fulfill the promise that human rights are inherent, inalienable, and applicable to all people. Massey Lectures series: https://houseofanansi.com/collections/the-massey-lectures

November 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM Everybody can reply

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Unlikely Stories

@unlikely-stories.bsky.social

David Moscovich is back, with three “Wrestling Matches:” poems pitting literary greats against arcade games at unlikelystories.org/content/thre... #poetry #litmag #smallpress

Three Wrestling Matches

1Second Life Vs James Joyce do you marry? do you have 20 digital children and feed them digital jesuit blueberries?the variety of opportunities Second Wake provides liverrun past cleave and avatar Hum...

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November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM Everybody can reply

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🩷Santana Rose|Emily Pop🧡

@dancingdryadcomics.bsky.social

sharing some of the art from our zine until it reaches its target demographic!✨️

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#smallpress #zines #queerfantasy
#sapphicreads #watercolor #handdrawn #characterart #oc

Book cover with the witch and knight holding hands on a starry background

The witch in her whimsical kitchen speaking to the knight who is seated at the table with the witch's bluebird companion

A woodpecker and a witch in a lush forest

November 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM Everybody can reply

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Misfit Studios RPGs & Stock Art

@misfitstudios.bsky.social

#StockArt details of a red #samurai armor

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#fantasy #Japan #SmallPress #RPG #StockImages #Publishing #Publisher #RolePlayingGames

November 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM Everybody can reply

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Enlighten Someone Daily Productions

@enlightensomeonedp.bsky.social

#Art is not always easy; it's not supposed to be sometimes.
Our #SmallPress presents challenging art, most recently in the form of #IndieAuthor W.L. Swarts's short story anthology "Tales From Our Current Apocalypse."

Learn more and buy at: www.enlightensomeonedaily.com/TalesCA.html
📚💙 #Booksky 💙📚

The front cover to "Tales From Our Current Apocalypse."

The back cover text to "Tales From Our Current Apocalypse."

November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM Everybody can reply

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Misfit Studios RPGs & Stock Art

@misfitstudios.bsky.social

A #vampire visits someone under medical care in this #StockArt by @ericlofgren.bsky.social. Are they there to feast or to watch over a mortal friend?

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#horror #SmallPress #RPG #StockImages #Publishing #Publisher #RolePlayingGames

November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM Everybody can reply

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A.S. Coomer

@ascoomer.bsky.social

slinging #Poems in #TheGlassCity this weekend alongside #Poets from all over the country. come say hi #ToledoOhio

#ASCoomer #UndergroundLitFest #SmallPress #IndieArt #CultureClashRecords #AtticOnAdams

November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM Everybody can reply

Last Night on the Dance Floor

@lastnightzine.bsky.social

DEADLINE EXTENDED!!
We want to publish your fragments of night life, Poetry, Prose, and Art accepted
#zines
#zinesubmissions
#callforsubmissions
#opencall
#zinecall
#artzine
#poetryzine
#litmagazine
#smallpress
#diyzine
#zinester
#indiepublishing
#literaryzine
#printzine
#zineculture

November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM Everybody can reply

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Warren E. Elliott

@almostnormalcomics.com

almostnormalcomics.blogspot.com/2025/11/nbms...
#comics #art #artists #indie #smallpress

NBM's 2025 Graphic Novel Gift Guide!

An Almost Normal Comics blog promoting comics, comix, mini-comics, small press, zines, lowbrow art, and the independent ethic of DIY

almostnormalcomics.blogspot.com

November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM Everybody can reply

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Misfit Studios RPGs & Stock Art

@misfitstudios.bsky.social

A #survivor is in a last-ditch fight against #zombies in this cover-sized #StockArt

https://loom.ly/BPROQgA

#PostApocalypse #SmallPress #RPG #StockImages #Publishing #Publisher #RolePlayingGames

November 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM Everybody can reply

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Misfit Studios RPGs & Stock Art

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A perched baby #wyvern looks down from a rooftop to the happenings below in this #StockArt by #EarlGeier

https://loom.ly/rqUb9rY

#fantasy #SmallPress #RPG #StockImages #Publishing #Publisher #RolePlayingGames

November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM Everybody can reply

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Liminal House Press | Publishing for Rebels

@liminalhousepress.bsky.social

📣 Only ONE service slot left for November! Editing, publishing assistance, design, or social media strategy—once it’s gone, it’s gone. Secure your spot at liminalhousebooks.com #AuthorServices #SmallPress

November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM Everybody can reply

Joanne Merriam

@joannemerriam.bsky.social

and 6/6... Fierce Voice by @suecurrie24.bsky.social (@commondeerpress.bsky.social): www.commondeerpress.com/books-1/fier... & Songs of No Provenance by @lydiconklin.bsky.social (@catapultbooks.bsky.social): books.catapult.co/books/songs-...

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Book cover for Songs of No Provenance by Lydi Conklin (Catapult). Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, flees New York after committing a shocking sexual act onstage that she fears will doom her career. Joan seeks refuge at a writing camp for teenagers in rural Virginia, where she’s forced to question her own toxic relationship to artmaking—and her complicated history with a friend and mentee—while finding new hope in her students and a deepening intimacy with a nonbinary artist and fellow camp staff member. https://books.catapult.co/books/songs-of-no-provenance/

Book cover for Fierce Voice by Susan Currie (Common Deer Press). Iz has everything she's ever wanted: she’s found the foster home of her dreams and is attending the prestigious music school she moved heaven and earth to get into. But secrets from her past keep threatening to spill into the present, and Iz is sure that her newfound loved ones will abandon her if they learn of her terrible history. Fierce Voice is the sequel to the White Pine Award nominee Iz the Apocaylpse. https://www.commondeerpress.com/books-1/fierce-voice

November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Joanne Merriam

@joannemerriam.bsky.social

5/6... Eros and Revolution by George Katsiaficas (Black Rose Books): blackrosebooks.com/collections/... & The Pages of the Sea by Anne Hawk (@biblioasis.bsky.social): www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction...

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Book cover for The Pages of the Sea by Anne Hawk (Biblioasis): On a Caribbean island in the mid-1960s, a young girl copes with the heavy cost of migration. When her mother emigrates to England to find work, Wheeler and her older sisters are left to live with their aunts and cousins. She spends most days with her cousin Donelle, knocking about their island community. They know they must address their elders properly and change their shoes after church. And during the long, quiet weeks of Lent, when the absent sound of the radio seems to follow them down the road, they look forward to kite season. But Donelle is just a child, too, and though her sisters look after her with varying levels of patience, Wheeler couldn’t feel more alone. Everyone tells her that soon her mother will send for her, but how much longer will it be? And as she does her best to navigate the tensions between her aunts, why does it feel like there’s no one looking out for her at all? Shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize in Fiction. https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/novel/the-pages-of-the-sea/

Book cover for Eros and Revolution by George Katsiaficas (Black Rose Books): Tying his intellectual concerns to social movements in South Korea, Germany and dozens of countries, historian and social theorist George Katsiaficas traces the evolution of history from the global eruption of 1968 and the Black Panther Party to the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and Occupy Wall Street. His theory of the Eros effect helps us to understand social movements as a logical unfolding of the practice of thousands if not millions of people as they rise up to change their lives. https://blackrosebooks.com/collections/new-forthcoming/products/b-eros-and-revolution-b-br-george-katsiaficas-br-pre-order

November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Joanne Merriam

@joannemerriam.bsky.social

4/6... Genealogies of Antifascism by @dzshaw.bsky.social (@kersplebedeb.bsky.social): kersplebedeb.com/posts/new-bo... & Loving Corrections by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social (@akpress.org): www.akpress.org/loving-corre...

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Book cover for Loving Corrections by adrienne maree brown (AK Press): New York Times-bestselling author adrienne maree brown knows we need each other more than ever, and offers "loving corrections": a roadmap towards collective power, righting wrongs, and true belonging. https://www.akpress.org/loving-corrections.html

Book cover for Genealogies of Antifascism: Militancy, Critique, and the Three Way Fight by D.Z. Shaw (Kersplebedeb Publishing): Learning from the past to build a revolutionary antifascism for the present and future. https://kersplebedeb.com/posts/new-book-genealogies-of-antifascism-militancy-critique-the-three-way-fight/

November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Joanne Merriam

@joannemerriam.bsky.social

3/6... Midway by Kayla Czaga (@houseofanansi.bsky.social): houseofanansi.com/products/mid... & Ship Moms by @jenwinsorauthor.bsky.social (@breakwaterbooksltd.bsky.social): breakwaterbooks.com/products/shi...

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Book cover for the memoir Ship Moms by Jen Winsor (Breakwater Books). Lust, love, and pregnancy—hidden from the luxury and leisure of cruise ships, the lives of crew members play out below deck. Ship Moms is a collection of these beautiful, complicated, behind-the-scenes true stories of crew members and the babies they brought into the world. https://breakwaterbooks.com/products/ship-moms

Book cover for Midway: Poems by Kayla Czaga, a finalist for the 2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (House of Anansi). Honest, elegiac, characteristically strange, and frequently funny, Midway is an exploration of grief in all its manifestations. https://houseofanansi.com/products/midway

November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Joanne Merriam

@joannemerriam.bsky.social

1/6... I've fallen behind on the #DSPBposts books I planned to feature, as I've been moving and spackling and painting and unpacking and such. (Also finishing edits for Aether and Ego!) So here's a bunch of #SmallPress #books to check out.

💙📚 #BookSky #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish

November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Kelly Esparza Has a Pinned #DVPit Pitch!

@kellyesparza.bsky.social

Can't believe I've already sold a good number of copies!🥰 I am trying my best to sell to bookstores, get interviews, and reviews. If you're interested or have any knowledge, please feel free to get in touch!
Buy my book: bottlecap.press/products/asp...
#smallpress #bottlecappress #poetry

A Spoonie's Guide to Self-Acceptance, by Kelly Esparza

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. How do you live life to the fullest when you’re diagnosed with a chronic illness in your twenties? In this grief-inspired poetry chapbook, Kelly Es...

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November 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM Everybody can reply

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Unlikely Stories

@unlikely-stories.bsky.social

Welcome newcomer Sarah Padgett, who brings her short story “Who Else Follows You into The Night? No one.,” on late-night pursuits, lying to one’s loved ones, and decoding one’s father at unlikelystories.org/content/who-... #fiction #smallpress #litmag

Who Else Follows You into The Night? No one.

The furnace rumbled to life, its low thrum no disguise for the unmistakable groan of the garage door slowly lifting. My father, having stopped at the thermostat, perhaps thought he was being subtle. B...

unlikelystories.org

November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM Everybody can reply

Misfit Studios RPGs & Stock Art

@misfitstudios.bsky.social

#OldWest style #moustache man #StockArt by @quicoarts.bsky.social for #SmallPress and #RPG use

https://loom.ly/URgZGDY

#Publishing #Publisher

November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM Everybody can reply

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Die Booth

@diebooth.bsky.social

Darkness Most Fowl officially released on Halloween! Visit my blog for links to all formats and regions: diebooth.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/n...
Includes my story 'Little Gibbet' about why being prejudiced just poisons your own mind! #horror #booksky #horrorbooks #indiebooks #smallpress

Darkness Most Fowl edited by Elaine Pascale, cover art by Michael Takeda shows a woman with pale blueish skin wearing a purple dress, her black hair resembles a bird nest and she has four crows perched on her head. The background is a gradient of red fading up into yellow.

November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM Everybody can reply

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Misfit Studios RPGs & Stock Art

@misfitstudios.bsky.social

#StockArt of a #desert #oasis large enough for a wrap-around front and back cover

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#fantasy #SmallPress #RPG #StockImages #Publishing #Publisher #RolePlayingGames

November 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM Everybody can reply

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Kelly Esparza Has a Pinned #DVPit Pitch!

@kellyesparza.bsky.social

🚨BIG NEWS REVEAL🚨 So excited to share that I wrote a poetry chapbook about my lupus and the grief that comes with it. It's PUBLISHED with #BottlecapPress🥄🔥!

Order your copy here: bottlecap.press/products/asp...

#poetrycommunity #poet #smallpress #buymybook #writersofbluesky #newbooks

yellow background with asterisks, purple cover of book: "A Spoonie's Guide to Self-Acceptance" by Kelly Esparza, picture of a spoon and fire

November 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM Everybody can reply

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Pitymilk Press

@pitymilkpress.bsky.social

PITYBATH vol 3 spotlight! A little taste of Joan Tate — read the rest on our website!!

pitymilkpress.com

#poemsky 📚💙 #writersky #smallpress #queer #writer #poetry
#trans #books

November 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM Everybody can reply

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Guru Comics

@gurucomicbooks.bsky.social

Hi all! The Guru Comics crew will be at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social next week! We’re in the Redshirt Hall, come say hi! 😀

#thoughtbubble #comics #smallpress

November 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM Everybody can reply