Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara documented the bond between her grandmother, Misao and her beloved cat Fukumaru #WomensArt #Autumn

We have a new display in the library vitrines of Future Fantasteek! #23 – You Love Libraries – When All the Books Are Gone by @jacbat.bsky.social & @jessyrandall.bsky.social Find out more about their project at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/ff23libraries/ Pics by Shaun Oaten at Bower Ashton Library.

This has been our #CelebrityTraitors display. We've been Orkney Library. Until next time. Stay Faithful. 🗡

Huge thanks to @tothemadpoets.bsky.social for an inspirational talk this week as part of his exhibition which was on show in our library. ‘How to read a book’ is on until 14th March 2026 at @porticolibrary.bsky.social Thank you so much Stephen, we all have many ideas bubbling away from your talk!

Poetry on Drugs: Language, Dreaming, and the Coming Revolution. To take place 20 February 2026 at Keynes Library, Birkbeck. CFP Deadline: 19 December tinyurl.com/poetryondrugs

January! The Drogheda Zine Fair is back. Information at www.droichead.com/show-detail/...

World Book Night 2026 – The Mountains Are Calling… WBN United Artists invite you to respond to a poem, text or book about mountains for an exhibition and mail art swap. Deadline 3rd March 2026 - Early submissions very welcome. Find out more about WBN and download the full brief: shorturl.at/Ti5lt

Possibly the best small press fair promo statement ever:

The first Wanstead Independent Book Fair - 1st November 2025 at Wanstead Library, E11 2RQ, UK. Organised by Julian Walker. 20+ tables of book artists, paper sculptors, zine makers, small presses, local authors, bespoke poets, concrete poets, readings, printing and more. stufflikethatbooks.carrd.co

Experience poetry like never before. 📅 11 Nov | 🕔 5–7 pm | 📍 Senate House Library An evening of live performance + experimental poetics celebrating Spineless Wonders. 🎟️ Free – register now! www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

The exhibition of Peter Lyssiotis' decades of practice in the art of the book will run for twelve months until June 2026 at the Matheson Library, Monash University. The works on display comprise the artist's works held in the Monash Archives. www.monash.edu/library/libr...

From Karen Guancione: The 31st Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium 'We the People' will be held at Archibald S. Alexander Library Rutgers, New Jersey, USA. Symposium & Exhibition: Friday 7th November 9:30 am - 5:00 pm. Free and open to all. Info at: www.libraries.rutgers.edu/news/31st-an...

Join us on Tues 4th November 12.45 – 1.15 GMT for a free talk with artist @tothemadpoets.bsky.social as part of his exhibition How to read a book. Special Collections area of Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol. No booking needed just turn up, free event, all welcome. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/howtoread/

The latest Book Arts Newsletter No 169, November 2025 is ready for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 63 pages of Exhibitions, Courses, Conferences, Lectures & Workshops, Opportunities, Events, New Artists' Publications, Reports & Stop Press! Cover: Boabooks, Geneva, Switzerland.

If you missed us at the Small Publishers Fair, you can order our titles direct from us here - longbarrowpress.com/current-publ... - and receive a free copy of the new 'Inventory' pamphlet with orders over £8.

Very happy that copies of KATE POEM ZINE BOOK and 9 GOLDEN RULES: Reading Poetry in Public will soon be on the shelves of the National Poetry Library! They’re both also available on my stall at today’s @smallpublishers.bsky.social running at @conwayhall.bsky.social until 7pm!

All set up and ready for two days at @smallpublishers.bsky.social! See you at @conwayhall.bsky.social today and tomorrow Saturday 25 October! Artists’ Books! Books! Poetry!

Today! At Conway Hall from 11am

And if you are near to Munich then don't miss <usus> at superBOOKS this weekend. This weekend around 70 national and international artists, designers, publishers, and institutions, including universities, present their latest productions at Haus der Kunst. www.hausderkunst.de/en/eintauche...

One day to go! Here's a webpage with all the essential info for your visit to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall, London, this Fri & Sat (24 & 25 Oct, 11am-7pm): programme, new titles, map, venue info, directions, and now updated with table plan. smallpublishersfair.co.uk/get-the-most...

The Caseroom Press is a publishing collective that applies systems, cataloguing, and data collection in their work using a combination of found surfaces, relief and screen print, letterpress, hand and machine stitch, typewriter and copy machine. Find them at #smallpublishersfair25 Fri 24/ Sat 25 Oct

Typographer and publisher Robin Kinross, whose critical standards are always high, and rightly so, writes about the design and production of Fitzcarraldo's books.

NEWS: the first @royalholloway.bsky.social Small Press Takeover of the 2025/26 academic year will be on Tuesday 21st October featuring writers published by the incredible @ghostcitypress.bsky.social 👻 Join us in Bloomsbury to hear from Brittany Thomas, Dani Salvadori, and Ellen Warren 🧡

A 🧵 of the #smallpublishersfair25 readings & talks on both days of the Fair. Friday's readings are introduced by @tyrrellknot.bsky.social and take place in The Green Room (2pm-5pm). 2pm: Helen Douglas (Weproductions) 2.30pm: Charlotte Northall (Pilot Press) 3.00pm: John Bevis (Uniformbooks) (1/5)

The Metro NY Library Council is creating an outdoor library in Westchester County. We now own 26 acres — and this wknd we’re hosting a group of international librarians to help us think about what this place can be! It’ll soon be open to the public + usable by all our 100s of member institutions ☺️

Uniformbooks will be at the Small Publishers Fair next Fri 24 & Sat 25, with a selection of our titles. If there are any you'd especially like, please email in the next few days ([email protected]) and we'll make sure we bring them along for you. @smallpublishers.bsky.social uniformbooks.co.uk

Pyramid's 2026 Letterpress Calendar is underway! Designed and printed by volunteer artists in our letterpress studio as a fundraiser for Pyramid. Pre-order now! Calendars are $45 (10% off for members). Pickup and shipping begins 11/21/25. tinyurl.com/423wej3v #letterpress #2026calendar #artistmade

Next week is the London launch of 'everything is so very much connected' an artist’s book resulting from a mail art collaboration with artist & writer Roelof Bakker at @smallpublishers.bsky.social with a reading 4pm on Friday 24 Oct, Green Room, Conway Hall, London. www.neg-press.com/product/ever...

It’s here! The first issue of The Visual Poetry Times now lives in our shop and is up for grabs for £4 per copy. Inside you will find visual poems, reviews, writing prompts, poetry quizzes, interviews and more! www.thepoetrykiosk.com

Don’t miss ‘The Living Library’ at the Landmark Arts Centre! This pop-up exhibition of materially innovative ecopoetry (in partnership with @royalholloway.bsky.social) is part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social - the UK’s National Festival of the Humanities! 9th November 🧡

​Ideas Beyond Formats is a paid publishing program geared towards supporting and amplifying artists who live/share stories of marginalized communities, who feel outside of traditional power dynamics. For more information, go to, www.sonnenzimmer.com/ideas-beyond...

Join us on 22/10/25 to discover the stories behind Senate House Library’s latest exhibition, Spineless Wonders: The Power of Print Unbound. Join curator Tansy Barton for an interactive conversation exploring the power and significance of unbound printed materials. www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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/

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...

"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-...

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

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

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.

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...

"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."

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

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...

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

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