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Text/image//making, community & collaboration. Books and prints. Louisville, KY. https://linktr.ee/newlightspress
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NewLights Press @newlightspress.bsky.social · Jan 25
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.
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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...

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Collaborative Publishing Deep-Dive — Minnesota Center for Book Arts
In this virtual workshop, we’ll take an in-depth look into the often hidden labor of publishing artists’ books: working with collaborators, budgeting, pricing, payments, sales, distribution, and promo...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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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...
Art Book Fair / Zine Fest Public Sales Transparency
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November 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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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...

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A digital flyer with an orange background and yellow, white, and dark purple text. The text reads, "S Apostrophe S Artist Book Reading! Wednesday, Nov. 5. 8 pm E • 7 pm C • 6 pm M • 5 pm P. Servane Briand. Patrick Allen Fenton. Samuel Mignot. Leslie Berns. Mizz. Wormhole. Caitlin Cass. On Zoom! Register through the link!"
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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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
NewLights Press 2025 Subscription — NewLights Press
This is a 2025 NewLights Press subscription package, available as a single purchase. The “Supporter” level costs $45 and the “Patron” level costs $90. The benefits of the subscription are: Two prin...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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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:
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American Weather
American WeatherMary Margaret Alvarado and Corie J. Cole2024NewLights Press 64 pages9.25 × 7 in. closedLink-stitched softcover with detachable jacketRisograph inside and letterpress coverEdition of…
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August 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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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...
A screenshot of the NewLights Press website store. There is a navigation menu for the website at the top, and another navigation menu just for the store below that. The page "Books From Friends" is highlighted in red. Below that are images of books laid out in a 3 x 3 grid. The first four have different colored cardstock covers with a different small image printed on each. The fifth shows a receipt book with its first page unfolded. The last shows a a book cover with the image of a white man with glasses and short hair in profile. The book is bound with thread wrapped through two holes on the left side of the book. The titles and prices of the books are listed under each image. They are: "2 Lists & A Poem Abt Lists," $5, "Shit Slips," $5 "The Paint Factory Years," $9, "Halcyon," $9, "Before I Spoke to Myself," $9, "Probably, Ohio," $15.
July 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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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.
A digital flyer for an art book sale. The image in the top 2/3 shows the covers of many different art books. The main text, at the bottom of the flyer, reads: "Art Book Sale. Sunday, July 27th, 12 - 4 pm at Kore Gallery. 942 E. Kentucky St., Louisville 40203. There is an orange/red band over the image that reads "Second Edition! Art Book Sale. It's a great chance to meet people with similar interests, buy a few books and have fun."
July 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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The CODEX Emerging Artist Fellowships are a great opportunity. The deadline is approaching! Please help spread the word! www.codexfoundation.org/opportunitie...

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Emerging Artist Fellowship - Codex Foundation
The CODEX Emerging Artist Fellowships aim to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the world of book arts by helping to reduce the financial barriers to exhibiting at the CODEX Book Fair. […]
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July 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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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...
The Palingenesis
Digital version of an out-of-print book.\nDrawings and text by Corie J. Cole\n36 pages, pamphlet stitch with attached jacket\n8” x 6.5” (closed)\nRisograph interior with letterpress printed jacket, co...
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July 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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One month until the deadline!
sasreadings.bsky.social SAS Artist Book Readings @sasreadings.bsky.social · Jun 21
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...
A digital flyer with an orange background, nearly white and very dark purple text, and yellow apostrophes as design elements. The text reads: "S Apostrophe S Artist Book Readings. Season 3 Call for Proposals Now Open! Deadline: August 3, 2025 at 10 pm EST."
July 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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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...
A digital flyer with an orange background, nearly white and very dark purple text, and yellow apostrophes as design elements. The text reads: "S Apostrophe S Artist Book Readings. Season 3 Call for Proposals Now Open! Deadline: August 3, 2025 at 10 pm EST."
June 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Tomorrow! As in Sat. May 31st. Kentuckiana #zinefest at Logan Street Market in #louisville KY. 3 to 7 pm. Poster by Ryan Thornton.

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This is the poster for the 2025 Kentuckiana Zine Fest in Louisville, KY. It is a cartoon image of a blue squid, standing on a sidewalk in front of a brick wall. The squid is holding multiple sheets of paper and folded zines in its arms and is simultaneously drawing, stapling them into booklets, and showing them to the viewer. The zines have the info about the zine fest. They read: "Fourth Annual Kentuckiana Zine Fest. May 31st, 2025. 3 pm to 7 pm. Located at Logan St. Market." The poster was designed by Ryan Thornton.
May 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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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.
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OLDLIGHTS PRESS (AN INTRODUCTION)
Getting started on the new IDE(A/O)(B)LOG(Y/UE)
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May 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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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...
May 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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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...

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Store — NewLights Press
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May 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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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 is the poster for the 2025 Kentuckiana Zine Fest in Louisville, KY. It is a cartoon image of a blue squid, standing on a sidewalk in front of a brick wall. The squid is holding multiple sheets of paper and folded zines in its arms and is simultaneously drawing, stapling them into booklets, and showing them to the viewer. The zines have the info about the zine fest. They read: "Fourth Annual Kentuckiana Zine Fest. May 31st, 2025. 3 pm to 7 pm. Located at Logan St. Market." The poster was designed by Ryan Thornton.
May 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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This a great #letterpress #bookarts opportunity in Lexington, KY! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/581...
University of Kentucky Applicant Site | Head, King Library Press | Print Preview
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April 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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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.
Head, King Library Press
The University of Kentucky Libraries is vital to fulfilling the goals of enhancing and expanding the university’s research and education enterprise. As part of that mission, we are looking for an enth...
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April 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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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...
Screenshot showing a digital flyer for the talk. It reads: "CBAA, the Association for Book Art Education. CBAA Community Book Arts Series Presentation. Community Print Shop. Monday, April 28 at 6:00 pm Central. Presenters: India Johnson and Aiden Bettine." At the bottom is the link to register for the Zoom event, which also linked in the main post. The images show interior shots of a community printshop.
April 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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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!
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Shaped for People: Sacred Harp Singing in the Age of AI - Image Journal
But when I am weary, singing helps me to stand, and when I am sad, it is kind company. This makes me like a lot of people in human history, which has been exquisite, and hard. Peasants came up with vi...
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April 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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@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.

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​​MARY MARGARET ALVARADO, CORIE J. COLE, & AARON COHICK with Sommer Browning | The Brooklyn Rail
Poet, artist, and publisher discuss the making of the collaborative artist book American Weather. Originally published as an essay in 2016, the artist book is about gun violence in the USA, as well as...
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March 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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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.
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A screenshot showing various artworks displayed on the silent auction page for the In Cahoots Residency fundraiser. A screenshot showing the piece "Primer Number 2 (Post) Study #12" on the In Cahoots Residency fundraiser page. The artwork is a drawing and collage on a page torn out of a book about the artist Cezanne. The image by Cezanne printed on the page is of a chair. Over top of that there is a gesso and black ink drawing of a folded piece of fabric. Collaged on top, running from the center of the composition to the upper right corner and off of the page are three lines of text rendered in the NewLights Press Threshold Alphabet. The paper that the text is cut from shows a full-color image from a medieval illuminated manuscript. The text reads: "A book... going... ...forth." A screenshot showing the piece "Study for Drift/Fragment No. 6" on the In Cahoots Residency fundraiser page. The piece is contained within several colored rectangles. The drawing is a diptych with a gray background. A part of each sheet of paper is torn out and the shapes are repeated multiple times over the composition and painted in yellow ochre. Large white text, rendered in the NewLights Press Threshold Alphabet, runs at an angle up and to the right. The text is cut into and peeled out of the surface of the drawing. The text reads: "Day. You could. You imagine. You wake."
March 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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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
A digital flyer with a blue background and black and light gray text. The black text is rendered in an experimental, geometric, and modular alphabet called the Threshold Alphabet. The whole text reads: "NewLights Press 2025 Subscription." A yellow book cover with an illustration, printed in black, showing a landscape with Pikes Peak, trees, and a utility poles and wires receding into the distance. The title of the book, American Weather, is printed along the spine. The author's names, printed in the bottom right corner, are Mary Margaret Alvarado and Corie J. Cole. A white book cover printed with large, black text reading "Reader, read your reading." There is a blue rectangle in the upper left corner where the large text begins, and the yellow outline of another rectangle tucked to the right of the large text. Underneath the large text is a thin red line. Under that line is some smaller text in black, with the book's title "Primer No. 2," the publisher, "NewLights Press," and the date of publication, January 1, 2025. A collage and mixed media drawing made from a page of a book that showed a medieval calendar from an illuminated manuscript. Over tope of that image are layered line drawings of folded fabric in black and cyan, along with text rendered in an experiment, modular alphabet called the Threshold Alphabet. The text switches direction from line to line, with the first line reading left-to-right, the second line reading right-to-left, and so on, for four lines. The text runs off the right side of the page. Visible in the first line is the word "time," on the second line the letters n, i, n, g, on the third line the letters t, h, r, o, and on the fourth line the letters e, x, t.
March 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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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...
2025 SFCB Book Arts Mentorship Award | San Francisco Center for the Book
2025 SFCB Book Arts Mentorship Award San Francisco Center for the Book is proud to announce our second national mentorship award in book arts for Summer 2025. Our mentors this year are Julie Chen and ...
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February 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM