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this is why i'm sceptical about ireland's emphasis on individual artist bursaries and artists basic income... it means we can pay rent but its ultimately just more money that goes into landlords pockets, it's not enough, artists need infrastructure and cities need spaces like this, for everyone

"The nature of a pop-up is that it is drawing to a close from the moment that it opens. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It can help to give it focus and purpose." SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log

Yo! If you missed the first two printings, tonight I cranked out 100 more copies of the Public Collectors booklet "Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?" Still just $6.00 from the Half Letter Press webstore. Give the gift of FUCK ICE to someone you love. halfletterpress.com/who-shares-w...

As makers of anarchist zines, we are asking you to help this person who was arrested and is facing deportation for allegedly having anarchist zines.

One of the conversations I had several times during last weekend's small press fair was about how few venues there are in Dublin that are amenable to certain types of cultural/community events; how few large-ish venues around that won't charge you 5-10k to take over the space for a day or two

"I learned about close reading when I asked them to take their own thinking seriously—to take themselves seriously. Doing so, I found, forced me to take my job more seriously." Loved this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

So much good here, but IMHO the key point is that close reading enables students to believe “that they are capable, that they can do it.” They have been hollowed out, too, denied self-efficacy by modern educational systems. Freire, hooks, so many have taught us how to teach. If we will only do it.

There is so much in this incredible essay that I relate to, not just as one of the few people in my field who values/ uses "close reading" (therefore criticised for this). Also the moral injury and harm of austerity (economic, educational, social & cognitive), hollowing out what makes us human.

did a thing, see you next time

did a thing, see you next time

goodnight sweet ladies goodnight goodnight goodnight

A grand day out with @bibliorefuses.bsky.social / @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social & @hardimanmk.bsky.social. Met @swanriverpress.bsky.social in the flesh (yes, books were bought), chatted pleasantly with @sinoistbooks.bsky.social, @renardpress.com & other publishers. 👏👏@dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social 📚

AND ALT TEXXXXXXTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!! we love it

The vibes have been immaculate. Thanks so much to everyone who joined us today ❤️

we found a phone left behind—if you can identify it, let us know @groenbot.bsky.social

and starting at noon, in the Leabharlann Beag corner, a poet or writer will read directly to you! #popupliterature

quick snaps as I ran around the Fair just before the doors opened yesterday—Antiphon Editions, Roberts Print, Mossy Press, and Cailleach Books. I will be spending more money than I had planned, which is the way of the small press fair! TODAY 10-4, Pearse Street Library, FREE ENTRY! come on down

What are you doing this weekend? @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social is happening and we can't wait! dublinsmallpressfair.com

Coming February 2026: an anthology edited by Molly Hennigan, featuring some of Ireland’s finest writers, inspired by the life and work of Maeve Brennan. www.newisland.ie/shop/p/an-as...

Today's the day! Pop by for some great small presses and even better books! 📚 #DublinSmallPressFair #IndiePublishing

or pick up a copy at the #DublinSmallPressFair today, 10-4. nice and dry in the Pearse Street Library!

TODAY!!!! see you soon?

#DublinSmallPressFair2025! dublinsmallpressfair.com

quick snaps as I ran around the Fair just before the doors opened yesterday—Antiphon Editions, Roberts Print, Mossy Press, and Cailleach Books. I will be spending more money than I had planned, which is the way of the small press fair! TODAY 10-4, Pearse Street Library, FREE ENTRY! come on down

Well worth a visit if you're in Dublin.

footsore and exhausted and with a pile of neglected grading starting to really pull on the conscience but elated at seeing the work of the presses and enthusiasm of visitors at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025 tonight. on again tomorrow (29/11) in Pearse St Library, 10-4! dublinsmallpressfair.com

Excited that @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social is finally upon us! Join us at Pearse Street Library this evening from 6-9 and tomorrow from 10-4, and support a wonderfully talented bunch of small publishers and book makers 📚 #DublinSmallPressFair2025 #SupportIndiePublishers

so lovely to see everyone this evening—please come tomorrow (Saturday 29th) to the Pearse Street Library from 10-4 and see just a fraction of the amazing book culture available in Ireland and from abroad! #DublinSmallPressFair2025 dublinsmallpressfair.com

Most fun thing about the small publishers fair today was multiple people seeing our neocities url and being like "I have one of those too!" #realwebsites

I can't say I'll buy nothing today as I'll be in Dublin at @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social Support the smallies but not the biggies!

THIS EVENING!!! 6-9 p.m., Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2! dublinsmallpressfair.com

love to see a mention of @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social in my favorite newspaper, @dublininquirer.com 🩷🩷🩷🩷 www.dublininquirer.com/things-to-do... come on down to Pearse Street Library from 6-9 Friday night and 10-4 Saturday! #DublinSmallPressFair2025

come one, come all! 6-9 tomorrow evening (28th, Fri.) and 10-4 Saturday (29). FREE! bring ten friends and ten euro and make a bunch of small presses really happy

We'll have a stall at this brilliant event in Pearse Street Library tomorrow and Saturday – hope to see you there! 📚

spent a rejuvenating few hours talking with Rita Hynes of Cailleach Books, who is doing a pop-up in Dingle for the days of the @dinglelit.bsky.social Festival at a tiny shop down the road from An Díseart (run by Sarah, also lovely and an invigorating imaginer, but whose last name I didn't catch)

Excited to see some of you in Pearse Library this Friday and Saturday at the @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social 📚 Open to the public on Friday between 6-9 pm, and on Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm 📚 Be sure to come by and say hello at our stand, and peruse our selection of translated titles! 📚

LITERARY MAGAZINES FOR EVERY READER at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025 Nov. 28-29 at Pearse St. Library dublinsmallpressfair.com for full details!

presses! presses! presses! distros! #DublinSmallPressFair2025 is this Friday 6-9 p.m. and Saturday 10-4 at Pearse St. Library in Dublin!

I will have five copies of #AbundantNumber 6 for random people at the #DublinSmallPressFair. if you see this and come to the fair on Saturday, ask me for a copy. cc @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social

Started actually posting on Instagram for the very first time to promote this small press fair and I've never felt older. What is a "reel." Why do pictures have to be that size. I'll kill you

What a talented bunch! Join us in Pearse Library this Friday & Saturday and see what the finest small presses and book-makers both in Ireland and abroad have to offer 📚 #DublinSmallPressFair2025 #IndiePublishing #BookSky

come and pick up a free postcard while supplies last on Friday evening or Saturday morning at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025! Pearse Street Library, FREE and open to the public. details on dublinsmallpressfair.com. we have all the breakfasting gentlemen and bastardized Joyce quotations you could want

Excited to be at the @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social this Saturday. I’ll be reading two poems I was fortunate enough to have published in issues 9 and 10 of The Waxed Lemon. Such an important local journal. #indiepub #authorsofbluesky #bookcommunity #writeon #literarydreams #independentauthors

I always like having a publication that only costs one or two dollars and feels just as complete as anything else on the table.

People are possibly not buying your books/zines at the fair/fest because: They are waiting in line to use the toilet with 275 other people at the book fair/zine fest and after that, they need to wait in line to fill up their water bottle.

People are possibly not buying your books/zines at the fair/fest because: They are distracted by the dazzling patterns on the table cloth that you have placed under your books and zines.

People are possibly not buying your books/zines because: They are holding four cups of coffee, a glass of wine, and three filled tote bags and you should have been telling them about your cool books and zines before they filled their arms up with all of this stuff they are now burdened with.