Sarah Bodman
📚 Artists' Books projects CFPR | UWE Bristol: Artists' Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Bristol Artist's Book Event | MA Fine Art Printmaking Subject Lead. linktr.ee/sarahbodman 📚
- The latest Book Arts Newsletter No 171, February – March 2026 is available at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 55 pages of exhibitions, courses, conferences, lectures & workshops, opportunities, book fairs and events, internet news, new artists' publications, announcements and stop press!
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanRecently back on the bench: [West/East] Printed paper* and board construction, (unfinished, 2008– ). * two copies of the Geological Survey of England and Wales, 'Isle of Wight', 1926, reprinted 1947.
- Reposted by Sarah Bodman🧑🎨 There are a few spaces still available for next month's Letterpress Taster Workshop 🗓️ Wednesday, 18 February, from 6-8pm f.mtr.cool/pfyjnqdgcv Explore a word or phrase or make images with type using our extensive letterpress collection. #letterpress #letterpressprinting #fonts
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanType specimen borders from 1900. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/b... Deliriously good.
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanBlack Zine Fair 2026: Open call for exhibitors, workshops, and volunteers until FEB 9. “If you have never made a zine, only made a few zines, or made several zines and never tabled a zine/art book fair before, we really want you to apply!” docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #BlackZineFair #BZF2026 #NYC
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanSubmissions for the spring issue close in 1 week! 🌱🌀
- World Book Night 2026 – The Mountains Are Calling… You're invited to respond to a poem, text or book about mountains for an exhibition and mail art swap. Deadline 3rd March 2026. Some examples below, one on left by @paulxhearn.bsky.social Download the info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/news/#wbn2026
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanWe are hiring a bookseller at bookhaus. Please share with anyone who might be interested
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanAhh!!! @caboosezine.bsky.social beat me to the post, so I'm just tagging @jwluther.bsky.social , @marc-fischer.bsky.social and @kirstenleenaars.bsky.social to amp this up. It's going to be such a good conversation. #zines #milwaukee #mke #factsheetfive
- Reposted by Sarah Bodmansasha weiss’ BLUE RASPBERRIES is now available for pre-order. www.ethelzine.com/shop/blue-ra... @cactus-ghoul.bsky.social
- If you're near Stavanger, Norway and love books: IDDIS - Norsk grafisk museum hosts an evening of bookbinding and artists books Tues 13 Jan, 6-8pm. Imi Maufe will show mini artists' books by different makers, you're welcome to bring along a book to share or just come along and browse. www.iddis.no
- Last call for the Artist's Book Yearbook 2026-2027, you can list up to 3 of your artists' books, also any courses, workshops, bindery, print studio, organisation etc. You don't have to buy a copy to be in it. Download the listing form at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/artists-book... Deadline 9 Jan!
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanICYMI
- 2 – 6 VIEWS MTS…, my book for World Book Night 2026, a tribute to Tom Sowden’s collection of artists’ books. Inspired by Ed Ruscha, Lucy May Schofield’s Nineteen Fuji Views and Tom’s Thirtysix Views of #MtFuji. If you would like to join in, download the brief at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/news/#wbn2026
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanA single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool. Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
- Open call for Chinese/Sinophone creators for Outland Publishing Fair, Copeland Gallery, London, 17-19 April 2026. OPF spotlights creative publishing practices from Chinese and Sino-diasporic communities in London and worldwide. Apply by 1st Feb 2026. outlandpublishingfair.com/outland-publ...
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanHuge version of 'Pause currently in the window at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. You can see the comparatively diminutive version in the Unfolding Events: Exploring Past and Present in Artists’ Books exhibition up thru March 1, 2026.
- Reposted by Sarah Bodman'Now voyager — unmake, decentre yourself.' Selected pages from my zine You the Great Adventurer: collage meditations on moving through these times with joy, hope and togetherness. Dedicated to Joanna Macy. Print copies £4 + postage: jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/you-... #zines #collage
- World Book Night 2026 – The Mountains Are Calling… You're invited to respond to a poem, text or book about mountains for an exhibition and mail art swap. Deadline 3rd March 2026. Some early submissions shown here. Find out more and download the full brief at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/news/#wbn2026
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanI have an exhibition coming up on what happened to the Surrealist Group in England following the death of André Breton in 1966
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanTonight! Tuesday, December 9, 6-8 PM at Walls Turned Sideways (2717 W. Madison St. Chicago, IL 60612). Join us for Matteo Guidi and Chicago’s Joe Sorrentino for a conversation on cooking in prison. Brett Bloom and I will be there with the book for sale. wallsturnedsideways.org/event/cookin...
- I will be showing a new book made in collaboration with Roelof Bakker + @rachelartsmith.bsky.social + Declan Wiffen on Roelof's Negative Press stand at Brighton Art Book Fair this Sat 6th & Sun 7th Dec at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton BN2 9NB, UK. www.brightonartbookfair.org/events | www.neg-press.com
- The latest Book Arts Newsletter No 170, December 2025 – January 2026 is ready for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 56 pages of Artists' Books news, exhibitions, courses and opportunites. Cover artist for this issue: Angus Carlyle, Chrystal Cherniwchan, Craig Tattersall.
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanThis weekend is the Endless Love Creative Winter Makers Market is in the Warehouse The Market will take place this Saturday and Sunday with over 30 stalls each day. Enjoy stalls abundant in festive gift ideas, from stocking fillers to forever pieces www.endlesslovecreative.com/edinburgh-ma...
- Reposted by Sarah Bodmanquick 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
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanBRIGHTON ART BOOK FAIR is coming up in 2 weeks Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 December at Phoenix Art Space 11 - 5 each day @brightonartbookfair @phoenix_artspace My table will have all these book and more. #artistsbooks #smallpublishers #printmaking #screenprint
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- It’s our Annual Mini Print Exhibition in the Bookshop at @arnolfiniarts.bsky.social Bristol. Our MA Print students + staff at @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social each produce an edition of mini prints which are for sale at £20 each - £1 per print goes to Caring in Bristol. bookshop.arnolfini.org.uk
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanI 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
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanTODAY TODAY TODAY
- SAVE THE DATE Small Birds Press will be reading at the Small Press Takeover on Tuesday 25th November! Join the @royalholloway.bsky.social Poetics Research Centre in Bloomsbury at 6:30 (7pm start) for an evening of book arts and experimental performance! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/small-pres...
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanTop-tier promotional materials for the inaugural @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social, happening at Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2, on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 November. All welcome, admission free. Hope to see some of you there.
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanThe deadline is approaching for applications to Rare Book School’s 𝗠. 𝗖. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀. Apply by 11:59 p.m. ET on 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. For details, visit rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/lang
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanI 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...
- 'At the Promised Place: Expanding Imagination Through Book Art' is on show at Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, Japan until 18th January 2026. Curated by Seiji Shinohara, Akiko Takiguchi and myself, it brings together c.100 artists’ bookworks made in Japan & the UK. www.city.saitama.lg.jp/urawa-art-mu...
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanCome and join us to launch The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali at @burleyfisher.bsky.social on 9th December! Yoel will be in conversation with Kieran Morris (@thefence.bsky.social). Free, all welcome, see you there! burleyfisherbooks.com/products/con...
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanBook/Print Collective 🇺🇸 Introducing the five collective members whose prints are featured in Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American print portfolio, the latest installment of our annual Black and brown hands making series: Colette Fu, Jennifer Graves, Sun Young Kang, Rejin Leys, & Daniel Minter
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanCall for papers for a special issue of the *Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry* on concrete & visual poetries. Edited by Colin Herd & Greg Thomas. 250-300-word abstracts to ConcreteAndVisualPoetries@gmail.com by 10 Jan 2026 poetry.openlibhums.org/news/867/ Please repost and share!
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- SAVE THE DATE Small Birds Press will be reading at the Small Press Takeover on Tuesday 25th November! Join the @royalholloway.bsky.social Poetics Research Centre in Bloomsbury at 6:30 (7pm start) for an evening of book arts and experimental performance! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/small-pres...
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanMaking / installing my solo exhibition The Public Dream at The Art House UK. Drawing on the gallery's history as a Carnegie Library, the exhibition considers the ghost of materiality as a form of science fiction. Opens this Friday. All welcome. the-arthouse.org.uk/exhibitions/...
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanCheck it out! New on the #arlisJobList: Penn State is hiring a Librarian for Arts & Architecture. Find the fill details here: linktr.ee/arlisna
- Deadline for applications 21st November:
- 📚 Give a Book is searching for a brilliant Charity Administrator to keep our small but mighty team running smoothly - a perfect role for someone who loves organisation, purpose, and making a real impact. To find out more check out the full job spec - giveabook.org.uk/support-us/c...
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- Our graduate Ali Woozley is running a free workshop at Bower Ashton Library as part of her residency exhibition, all welcome: Weds 26th Nov 12.30-1.30pm in the gallery area. Drop in and create your own Commemorative Blue Plaque - all materials provided. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/aliwoozleyair/
- Our MA Printmaking alum Kei Wing is exhibiting with artist Jessie Tam here at Bower Ashton Library. Come and see 𝓛𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓥𝓪𝓬𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷, on show now until 3rd December 2025, ɢᴀʟʟᴇʀʏ ꜱᴘᴀᴄᴇ, ʙᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴀꜱʜᴛᴏɴ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ, ꜰʀᴇᴇ ᴇɴᴛʀʏ - ᴡᴇᴇᴋᴅᴀʏꜱ, 9:00 - 17:00. 🌅 “𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩, 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.” 🏖️
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanJapanese photographer Miyoko Ihara documented the bond between her grandmother, Misao and her beloved cat Fukumaru #WomensArt #Autumn
- We have a new display in the library vitrines of Future Fantasteek! #23 – You Love Libraries – When All the Books Are Gone by @jacbat.bsky.social & @jessyrandall.bsky.social Find out more about their project at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/ff23libraries/ Pics by Shaun Oaten at Bower Ashton Library.
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanThis has been our #CelebrityTraitors display. We've been Orkney Library. Until next time. Stay Faithful. 🗡
- Huge thanks to @tothemadpoets.bsky.social for an inspirational talk this week as part of his exhibition which was on show in our library. ‘How to read a book’ is on until 14th March 2026 at @porticolibrary.bsky.social Thank you so much Stephen, we all have many ideas bubbling away from your talk!
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanPoetry on Drugs: Language, Dreaming, and the Coming Revolution. To take place 20 February 2026 at Keynes Library, Birkbeck. CFP Deadline: 19 December tinyurl.com/poetryondrugs
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanJanuary! The Drogheda Zine Fair is back. Information at www.droichead.com/show-detail/...
- World Book Night 2026 – The Mountains Are Calling… WBN United Artists invite you to respond to a poem, text or book about mountains for an exhibition and mail art swap. Deadline 3rd March 2026 - Early submissions very welcome. Find out more about WBN and download the full brief: shorturl.at/Ti5lt
- Possibly the best small press fair promo statement ever:
- The first Wanstead Independent Book Fair - 1st November 2025 at Wanstead Library, E11 2RQ, UK. Organised by Julian Walker. 20+ tables of book artists, paper sculptors, zine makers, small presses, local authors, bespoke poets, concrete poets, readings, printing and more. stufflikethatbooks.carrd.co
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanExperience poetry like never before. 📅 11 Nov | 🕔 5–7 pm | 📍 Senate House Library An evening of live performance + experimental poetics celebrating Spineless Wonders. 🎟️ Free – register now! www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanThe exhibition of Peter Lyssiotis' decades of practice in the art of the book will run for twelve months until June 2026 at the Matheson Library, Monash University. The works on display comprise the artist's works held in the Monash Archives. www.monash.edu/library/libr...
- From Karen Guancione: The 31st Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium 'We the People' will be held at Archibald S. Alexander Library Rutgers, New Jersey, USA. Symposium & Exhibition: Friday 7th November 9:30 am - 5:00 pm. Free and open to all. Info at: www.libraries.rutgers.edu/news/31st-an...
- Join us on Tues 4th November 12.45 – 1.15 GMT for a free talk with artist @tothemadpoets.bsky.social as part of his exhibition How to read a book. Special Collections area of Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol. No booking needed just turn up, free event, all welcome. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/howtoread/
- The latest Book Arts Newsletter No 169, November 2025 is ready for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 63 pages of Exhibitions, Courses, Conferences, Lectures & Workshops, Opportunities, Events, New Artists' Publications, Reports & Stop Press! Cover: Boabooks, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanIf you missed us at the Small Publishers Fair, you can order our titles direct from us here - longbarrowpress.com/current-publ... - and receive a free copy of the new 'Inventory' pamphlet with orders over £8.
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanVery happy that copies of KATE POEM ZINE BOOK and 9 GOLDEN RULES: Reading Poetry in Public will soon be on the shelves of the National Poetry Library! They’re both also available on my stall at today’s @smallpublishers.bsky.social running at @conwayhall.bsky.social until 7pm!
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanAll set up and ready for two days at @smallpublishers.bsky.social! See you at @conwayhall.bsky.social today and tomorrow Saturday 25 October! Artists’ Books! Books! Poetry!
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanToday! At Conway Hall from 11am
- And if you are near to Munich then don't miss <usus> at superBOOKS this weekend. This weekend around 70 national and international artists, designers, publishers, and institutions, including universities, present their latest productions at Haus der Kunst. www.hausderkunst.de/en/eintauche...
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanOne day to go! Here's a webpage with all the essential info for your visit to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall, London, this Fri & Sat (24 & 25 Oct, 11am-7pm): programme, new titles, map, venue info, directions, and now updated with table plan. smallpublishersfair.co.uk/get-the-most...
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanThe Caseroom Press is a publishing collective that applies systems, cataloguing, and data collection in their work using a combination of found surfaces, relief and screen print, letterpress, hand and machine stitch, typewriter and copy machine. Find them at #smallpublishersfair25 Fri 24/ Sat 25 Oct
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanTypographer and publisher Robin Kinross, whose critical standards are always high, and rightly so, writes about the design and production of Fitzcarraldo's books.
- A note on the physical production of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social robinkinross.substack.com/p/fitzcarral...
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanNEWS: the first @royalholloway.bsky.social Small Press Takeover of the 2025/26 academic year will be on Tuesday 21st October featuring writers published by the incredible @ghostcitypress.bsky.social 👻 Join us in Bloomsbury to hear from Brittany Thomas, Dani Salvadori, and Ellen Warren 🧡
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanA 🧵 of the #smallpublishersfair25 readings & talks on both days of the Fair. Friday's readings are introduced by @tyrrellknot.bsky.social and take place in The Green Room (2pm-5pm). 2pm: Helen Douglas (Weproductions) 2.30pm: Charlotte Northall (Pilot Press) 3.00pm: John Bevis (Uniformbooks) (1/5)
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanThe Metro NY Library Council is creating an outdoor library in Westchester County. We now own 26 acres — and this wknd we’re hosting a group of international librarians to help us think about what this place can be! It’ll soon be open to the public + usable by all our 100s of member institutions ☺️
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanUniformbooks will be at the Small Publishers Fair next Fri 24 & Sat 25, with a selection of our titles. If there are any you'd especially like, please email in the next few days (uniformbooks@gmail.com) and we'll make sure we bring them along for you. @smallpublishers.bsky.social uniformbooks.co.uk
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanPyramid's 2026 Letterpress Calendar is underway! Designed and printed by volunteer artists in our letterpress studio as a fundraiser for Pyramid. Pre-order now! Calendars are $45 (10% off for members). Pickup and shipping begins 11/21/25. tinyurl.com/423wej3v #letterpress #2026calendar #artistmade
- Next week is the London launch of 'everything is so very much connected' an artist’s book resulting from a mail art collaboration with artist & writer Roelof Bakker at @smallpublishers.bsky.social with a reading 4pm on Friday 24 Oct, Green Room, Conway Hall, London. www.neg-press.com/product/ever...
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanIt’s here! The first issue of The Visual Poetry Times now lives in our shop and is up for grabs for £4 per copy. Inside you will find visual poems, reviews, writing prompts, poetry quizzes, interviews and more! www.thepoetrykiosk.com
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanDon’t miss ‘The Living Library’ at the Landmark Arts Centre! This pop-up exhibition of materially innovative ecopoetry (in partnership with @royalholloway.bsky.social) is part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social - the UK’s National Festival of the Humanities! 9th November 🧡
- Reposted by Sarah BodmanIdeas Beyond Formats is a paid publishing program geared towards supporting and amplifying artists who live/share stories of marginalized communities, who feel outside of traditional power dynamics. For more information, go to, www.sonnenzimmer.com/ideas-beyond...
