Hi! We're raising mutual aid funds for vulnerable Twin Cities restaurant/service workers & their families. Currently, we are directly working with 6 Latino families to provide funds for rent, groceries, missed wages, etc. Venmo: @jamesirving Cashapp: $jamesirvinghair Venmo: @allisonannecollage

I am very! excited! to be teaching a new! workshop (online through the Minnesota Center for Book Arts) called "Collaborative Publishing Deep-Dive." mnbookarts.org/events/colla... #bookarts #artistsbooks #artistspublishing

I created a public spreadsheet that other publishers can add to so people can decide whether different fairs might be effective for them. Please add to it! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The next SAS Artist Book Reading is one week away! Wed. 11/5/25 at 8 pm E • 7 pm C • 6 pm M • 5 pm P. Featuring Servane Briand, Patrick Allen Fenton & Samuel Mignot, Leslie Berns, Mizz. Wormhole, and Caitlin Cass. On Zoom! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #bookarts #booksky

The 2025 NewLights subscription period ends on 10/31. We need 2 more subscribers by that date to get to 50 and be able to do the Public Goods Grant again this year. Subscribe here! www.newlightspress.com/store/newlig... #letterpress #bookarts #artistsbooks #printmaking

A very thoughtful review of the NewLights book, American Weather, by Mary Margaret Alvarado and @coriejcole.bsky.social is out today from Artists' Book Reviews: artistsbookreviews.com/2025/08/22/a... #artistsbooks #bookarts #artistspublishing #booksky

2025 books from @betweenthehighway.bsky.social are now available in the NLP store, under the "Books From Friends" category. Betweenthehighway prints & publishes using a receipt printer. But hey, look, there's a book book in there too. www.newlightspress.com/store?catego...

Hey #louisville and #art #book people, this sale is happening at Kore Gallery on Sunday, July 27th. It's an informal used-books-about-art sale, but I'll also be bringing some artists' books! 12 - 4 pm. 942 E. Kentucky St., Louisville 40203.

The CODEX Emerging Artist Fellowships are a great opportunity. The deadline is approaching! Please help spread the word! www.codexfoundation.org/opportunitie... #bookarts #letterpress #bookbinding #printmaking

I recently added a few out-of-print NLP books to the digital archive. First up is The Palingenesis by @coriejcole.bsky.social heyzine.com/flip-book/21...

One month until the deadline!

SAS Season 3 Call for Proposals! We are seeking proposals for readings of #artistsbooks that are not yet completed or that are over three years old and will be completely reimagined for the reading format. Deadline: August 3, 2025 at 10 pm EST. Full details: www.newlightspress.com/sas-submissi...

Tomorrow! As in Sat. May 31st. Kentuckiana #zinefest at Logan Street Market in #louisville KY. 3 to 7 pm. Poster by Ryan Thornton. #zines #bookarts #kentucky #indiana

I started a newsletter! Or really I restarted the NewLights Press IDE(A/O)(B)LOGY(Y/UE). First post with more info is linked below. open.substack.com/pub/newlight...

Another full-time #letterpress and #bookarts opportunity, this time at the Palace Press at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe. Great city plus you'd get to work with some wonderful people! (Type "letterpress" into the search bar to find the posting.) careers.share.nm.gov/psc/hprdcg/E...

NewLights Press has officially started selling books by other artist-publishers! The main goal is to help good people get good work out into the world at book fairs that they can't normally attend. But they're online too! www.newlightspress.com/store?catego... #bookarts #letterpress #artistsbooks

Looking forward to the Kentuckiana Zine Fest here in Louisville on May 31! 3 - 7 pm, at Logan Street Market. The poster was designed by Ryan Thornton. Applications are still open and tables are only $25: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #bookarts #letterpress #printmaking #zines

This a great #letterpress #bookarts opportunity in Lexington, KY! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/581...

New full-time #BookLab job just dropped for the #KingLibraryPress: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/580... Please share widely as you can, I am on the search committee and am also happy to chat about what it means to live in Kentucky.

I am very much looking forward to this CBAA talk by India Johnson and Aiden Bettine (Late Night Copies Press, the Midwest Queer & Trans Zine Fest, and the Workshop for Independent Publishing) on Monday, 4/28, at 6 pm CST. Registration at the link below: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Mary Margaret Alvarado, the author of the NLP book American Weather and one of my moral compasses, has a new essay about shape note singing, AI, and mortality. I highly recommend it! imagejournal.org/article/shap...

@sommerb.bsky.social interviewed the authors of American Weather, Mary Margaret Alvarado and @coriejcole.bsky.social for the Brooklyn Rail. It's a very sad and hopeful book. I am happy to have helped with it. brooklynrail.org/2025/03/art_... #letterpress #bookarts #booksky #printmaking

Two of my poem-drawing-print-things, which usually go to subscribers and thus aren't on sale very often, are up on the In Cahoots Residency silent auction fundraiser. The fundraiser supports grants to help artists attend the residency. incahootsresidency.com/2025-auction... #printmaking #bookarts

I want to send you books and prints! 2025 NewLights Press subscriptions are now available, $45 or $90. What exactly you'll get this year is tbd. The pictures show what was included in 2024. www.newlightspress.com/store/newlig... #bookarts #letterpress #printmaking #art #poetry #artistsbooks

Print Hive mind: Please help me spread the word about the upcoming deadline to apply to GET PAID to make a book with me or Julie Chen at SFCB this summer: sfcb.org/2025mentorsh...

Tonight! Wed. 2/26 at 8 pm E • 7 pm C • 6 pm M • 5 pm P. Register here! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #bookarts #artistsbooks #printmaking #bookbinding #letterpress #artistbooks #art

Wednesday! Feb. 26 at 8 pm E / 7 pm C / 6 pm M / 5 pm P. On Zoom. Readings by: Macy Chadwick, Emiland Kray & Alexander Arce, Karen Zimmermann, and @roberteshoe.bsky.social Registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #artistsbooks #artistspublishing #bookarts #letterpress #printmaking

We now have a Bsky account for the S Apostrophe S Artist Book Readings! Follow to stay updated on events, calls for readers, and other good things! @sasreadings.bsky.social And don't forget to register for the reading on Wed. 2/26! #artistsbooks #bookarts #printmaking #bookbinding #artistbooks

Next week! An S Apostrophe S Artist Book Reading featuring: Macy Chadwick, Emiland Kray & Alexander Arce, Karen Zimmermann, & @roberteshoe.bsky.social Wed., Feb. 26 at 8 pm E • 7 pm C • 6 pm M • 5 pm P. On Zoom. Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #artistsbooks #printmaking #letterpress

CBAA (the Association for #bookarts Education) is now accepting nominations for Career Awards! I helped set up the brand new Community Steward Award. Info on how to make nominations here: www.collegebookart.org/Community_St... #artistsbooks #letterpress #printmaking #printedu

New book! Primer No. 2, an alphabetic, submanifesto, workbook-poem about the NewLights Press Threshold Alphabet and its readerly possibilities. All #risograph printed. 200 copies. $10. Available here: www.newlightspress.com/store/primer... #artistsbooks #artistspublishing #printmaking #bookarts

I organize a Zoom-based series of artist book readings with AB Gorham. "It's like poetry readings, except for artist books." We need community support to fund Season 2! You can donate here: gofund.me/8545e1da More info through the link as well. #artistsbooks #printmaking #letterpress #bookarts

Tonight! SAS artist book reading live from the Tropic Bound Symposium! Featuring four artists from the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective Irene Chan, @rskyet.bsky.social Islam Aly and @primrosepress.bsky.social Co-organized with AB Gorham #tropicboundfair #tropicbound2025 #artistsbooks

I'm going to be tabling at the Tropic Bound fair in Miami, AND we're doing the first LIVE SAS Artist Book Reading as part of the symposium, with readings by @primrosepress.bsky.social @rskyet.bsky.social Irene Chan, and Islam Aly. #bookarts #artistsbooks #letterpress #tropicboundfair

An intro post: I am an artist-publisher that operates under the imprint NewLights Press. I make books and prints, mostly by hand, with #letterpress #risograph and mixed #drawing media. Sometimes the work is solo and sometimes it is collaborative. The images show some recent work.