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

Are you an early career researcher with an interest in our collection? Apply to develop an independent research project funded by AHRC.

Hear more about the opportunity at a virtual town hall event on Monday 6 October: bit.ly/BL-EarlyCare...

SUBTERRANEANS II by Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.bsky.social

New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social

LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH

burninghousepress.com/2025/09/26/s...

The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists’ books Volume 20 No 1, Autumn – Winter 2025 is now ready for free download at:
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/blue-notebook/
Articles by Corina Reynolds, Abigail Reynolds, Ruth Hallinan, Christine (Cheng) Dong and Eliza Strong. Featured artist: Yunqi Peng.

Have you had a chance to see Spineless Wonders yet? Take advantage of the Open House festival this year and come check it out

Looking forward to this👇with work by @joedevlin.bsky.social @sarahbodman.bsky.social @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social SJ Fowler, Stephen Emmerson, David Blackmore, Michael Hampton, et al. 🔥🔥🔥🕊

Terrie Reddish and I recorded a talk for 'BIND25 - preserving the past and crafting the future', Association of Book Crafts New Zealand conference. We discuss aspects of bookmaking in all its forms and ways to get involved in the communities of its practices, at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWo...

We’re all set up at the Anarchist Book Fair on Leake Street - surrounded by #graffiti, #zines and anarchy. (So what else is new?)

Here until 6! Come and see us!

Congratulations to our MA Multidisciplinary Printmaking student Eloise Lifton, who has been awarded this year’s Agassi Book Arts Prize by CFPR for her work 'in conversation', a screenprinted artist’s book, 2025. You can read more about her book here:
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/meir-agassi/...

@nlisn.bsky.social is attempting to assess the proportion/spread of neurodiversity across across all UK library sectors. If you identify as neurodivergent, with or without a formal diagnosis, or suspect you may be - please fill in our short survey!

Reblogging/signal-boosting much appreciated!

finally made some riso-printed badges #diyzines

If you’re lucky enough to be in Porto Alegre, Brazil, ‘Problems’ a book in 2 vols. by Fernanda Fedrizzi & myself launches Sat 13 Sept with a conversation about artists’ books by Fernanda Fedrizzi & Paulo Silveira at Bancaberta bookshop at 4pm, all welcome! See @nandafedrizzi on Instagram for info.

Submit your proposal for #arlisna2026 today! The theme for the Montreal conference is "Resistance" and we invite proposals from anyone in the art information field. Deadline is September 29 at 6:00 pm ET. linktr.ee/arlisna #skybrarians

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We are delighted to open applications for Artists’ Bookmarket 2026, Edinburgh’s annual celebration of artists’ book culture.

We invite publishers, book makers and artists’ books organisations to apply for a stall. Find out more: www.fruitmarket.co.uk/apply-for-ar...