Some of my recent books, bendable for placement inside stockings — available in the usual ways, but links are @ www.danobrien.org @acrebooks.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @poetrylondon.bsky.social @calquepress.bsky.social

Tonight! Retro toys meets DnD, as @angliaruskin.bsky.social meets @calquepress.bsky.social for new poetry and the book launch of Ragged Band of Travellers! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...

TOMORROW - FRIDAY 05.12.2025 December Future Karaoke event will open with a mini-launch of RAGGED BAND OF TRAVELLERS, our latest poetry collection edited by Jon Stone. There will be a chance to buy some of our pamphlets and books. FREE event, book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-kar...

Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’

A short post in two parts in support of @argonautbooks.bsky.social 💙 (1/2):

5-starts review to our last pamphlet of the year, SOME THOUGHTS ON HORROR, over at @librarything.com: www.librarything.com/work/3516421.... You can still get a copy: calquepress.com/collections/...

"Some Thoughts on Horror" is a forthcoming essay I wrote for our friends at @calquepress.bsky.social Should be out in October, you can secure a copy of the signed, limited edition pamphlet here: calquepress.com/collections/...

Join us and 15 other Northern publishers and agents for the Northern Publisher’s Fair in Manchester Central Library, on Saturday 27th September! Publishers will be on hand to chat and literature enthusiasts can network informally. More information: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/north...

ICYMI: We are extending #WomenInTranslationMonth a little bit, and running this offer until Friday!!! ⬇️ Head to: www.calquepress.com

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Details + tickets for our launch event! astoriabookshop.com/events/33870...

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!

It’s nice to see copies of the pamphlet arriving from across the pond. Thanks for ordering, friends 🙏🏻 calquepress.com/products/pre... @calquepress.bsky.social

reading wonderful 40 Questions About a Political Play by Dan O'Brien. published by Calque Press. @calquepress.bsky.social

Thank you to @csvich.bsky.social for featuring ‘40 Questions About a Political Play’ on her podcast Day for Night 🙏🏻 @calquepress.bsky.social

‘40 Questions About a Political Play’ (published by @calquepress.bsky.social) excerpted in @americantheatre.org — many thanks to editor @robkendt.bsky.social 🙏🏻

Delivery of some more pamphlets. Publisher says it’s a bit of a bestseller for them. Thank you to everyone who’s been ordering & reading 🙏🏻 If you’re curious, check out the excerpts in American Theatre magazine and The Arts Fuse (@calquepress.bsky.social)

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

Thank you to @theartsfuse.bsky.social and editor Bill Marx for publishing this excerpt from my pamphlet “40 Questions About a Political Play” — published today by @calquepress.bsky.social calquepress.com/products/pre...

A propos of LOST OBJECTS and OUT OF THE WINDOW, INTO THE DARK, @maudmarianw.bsky.social has put together this little list of books featuring Libraries, Museums, Scholars for @electricliterature.com ⤵️

'Womack is a master at using realism to enhance the uncanny.' Rachel Robinson reviews @maudmarianw.bsky.social LOST OBJECTS for Full Stop Mag: www.full-stop.net/2025/03/31/r...

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/...

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. 🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

Cover for my pamphlet “40 Questions About a Political Play” — coming next month from @calquepress.bsky.social in Cambridge, England. Limited edition of 100 copies calquepress.com/products/pre...

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

Exciting times at the Calque office! These two limited-edition beauties are here. Order at calquepress.com

Coming in July from @calquepress.bsky.social — 40 Questions About a Political Play in a limited edition of 100 copies 📚 calquepress.com/products/pre...

A short story collection that leaves you with a feeling to be savoured, highlighting an author to watch. Out of the Window, Into the Dark by Marian Womack, published by @calquepress.bsky.social #BFSReview britishfantasysociety.org/review/out-o...

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.

“40 Questions About a Political Play” coming in July from @calquepress.bsky.social 🙏🏻 calquepress.com/products/pre...

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🥳 and she’s beautiful!!! Thank you @calquepress.bsky.social !!!

Book mail! Thanks to @calquepress.bsky.social for this gorgeous copy of Lost Objects by Marian Womack 😍

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.

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.

Every summer since cancer I write an essay about playwriting. Last year I wrote my eighth : ‘40 Questions About a Political Play’; I’m thrilled that it will be published as a pamphlet by @calquepress.bsky.social in Cambridge this spring. Many thanks to James Womack & @maudmarianw.bsky.social

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!

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

📣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

"Rendering Justice" is a long essay I wrote about endings in fiction. It's available as a limited edition pamphlet with @calquepress.bsky.social calquepress.com/products/pam...

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

Good morning from Cambridge UK. We absolutely love getting up on a Monday to this: an extract of @maudmarianw.bsky.social's 'The Iceberg in my Living Room', from her collection 'Out of the Window, Into the Dark'. Thank you to @literaryhub.bsky.social for running it: lithub.com/the-iceberg-...

Thank you so much to @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing an extract of my short story "The Iceberg in my Living Room" from Out of the Window, Into the Dark (@calquepress.bsky.social) lithub.com/the-iceberg-...

This #IndiePublisher Starter Pack is now at 111 do not many to go until it's full if you know of any indies active on Bluesky that are not on this list please let me know go.bsky.app/8ui1WS6

Post you from a different era. In Iceland, channeling my mother in her younger years... 🖤

Good morning! What are you reading today?

Humbled by the continuous support of my writing, @jonathanthornton.bsky.social & The Fantasy Hive👇 ✨"triumphantly confirms the power and importance of Womack's work" ✨"An essential document of one of our key authors working in genre" ✨"one of the modern masters of the short story form" Thank you 🖤

I open my Bluesky feed and it is full of really cool people saying really smart things and being really passionate about really interesting stuff. I like this version of social media, and the world. Thanks, folks.