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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sunday, we went to a book sale at the Urbana Regional Library in Frederick, MD and got a bunch of used books, which we listed for sale on our website. carpelibrumbaltimore.com/collections/...

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Big fan of the way this tree wears its ivy.

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birch sap | sú beithe @birchsap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What have I been up to the past 3+ years? Here's a peak as I currently polish sample chapters and #book proposal for #querying #CNF #agents and #publishers. (The phrase 'my brain darkening' is borrowed from verses in 'Bog Queen' by Seamus Heaney.) #Booksky📚 nancyforde.substack.com/p/my-brain-d...

nancyforde.substack.com

my brain darkening*

On my WiP about bogs, Iron Age bog bodies, death, ritual sacrifice, environment as sacred, longevity, and letting go. Meditations on preserving our planet’s future and our own.

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Kevin MacDonell (he/him) @kevinmacdonell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is great. I can't seem to figure out how to make it the default for a newly-opened tab, so tried accessing help -- which is crashing due to too many simultaneous accesses. So it's popular.

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Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A new essay by Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social, reflecting on his personal journey to 'tidal poetics' in the wake of MacDiarmid, Black Mountain, and others. tinyurl.com/4pt25a79

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our 2026 Radical Book Fair programme is LIVE and fizzing with the energy of this year's theme: Building a Better Now! The fair will be made up of book stalls, activist stalls, events, workshops and more! Assembly Roxy, 5-8th November lighthousebookshop.com/events/edinb...

1 excited bookseller holds a placard in one hand with a poster stuck to it, with the text 'programme now live' written on it. A second, more casually excited, bookseller leans against a green wall holding a stack of books

a green and yellow graphic displaying all the as yet announced authors and speakers who will be featured at the radical book fair

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let us bring the chills to you this winter, with six weeks of guest horror workshops and more with FEARS OF THE DARK, starting this November! www.eventbrite.com/e/fears-of-t... #horror #horrorwriting #horrorwriters #horrorcourse #horrorcourses #horrorfiction #horrorauthors

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Fears of the Dark - 6-week horror writing school

Join us for six weeks of horror writing workshops, feedback sessions and more and experience the fear of the dark...

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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are thrilled that Renegotiating Patriarchy has won the 2026 ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award in the Political Science category 🎉 🔗 Read and download Renegotiating Patriarchy for free via #OpenAccess publishing: doi.org/10.31389/lse...

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“...an important poem, a major long poem of the 1960s... Uniformbooks are to be commended for bringing it back into circulation in a format that is both handsome and serviceable.” —Billy Mills blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Book-of-the-Green-Man-by-Ronald-Johnson/9781910010044 #PoetryDay

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Migration Museum, London, is hiring a part-time (3 days per week) curator for a year to help build the vision of the new museum. £40k pro rata plus 5% matched pension contribution. Deadline for applications 18 October.

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We’re Hiring: Curator, Contemporary Art (Part-time)

The Migration Museum is seeking a Contemporary Art Curator to join their team on a part-time basis. Application deadline: 18 October 2026.

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Hey Neighbour Collective @heyneighbourcollective.ca · 02/10/2026

A great opportunity for continued education and learning on climate action and preparedness! Our partner, @resilientneighbourhoods.ca, will be speaking in one of the modules during this 8-week online course, offered through the UBC Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship.💡

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And hear directly from Rosanna Deerchild throughout the year (and in her most recent episode on reconciliation), on her CBC Indigenous show Unreserved, here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/u...

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Unreserved

MZGenre.Podcasts.SocietyCulture Podcast · Updated Biweekly · Named one of Audible's Best Canadian Podcasts of 2025. Join Rosanna Deerchild every Friday for vibrant conversations with our cousins, aunt...

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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Leigh Kotsilidis' Eastern Canada Tour for SOME OF US MAY LIVE (officially out Oct. 20) begins today, in Moncton, NB! Celebrate this new collection with Kotsilidis at an event near you, and be rewarded with excellent poetry and exclusive launch ephemera. chbooks.com/Books/S/Some...

Eastern Canada Tour info for Leigh Kotsilidis' SOME OF US MAY LIVE. Oct 1: Attic Owl Reading Series in Moncton, NB. Oct 3-4: Poetry Weekend at UNB in Fredericton, NB. Oct 5: Struts Gallery in Sackville, NB. Oct 6: Trident Booksellers & Cafe in Halifax, NS. Oct 7: UPEI Faculty Lounge in Charlottetown, PE. Oct 10: LaHave River Books in LaHave, NS.

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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New online! An interview with our translator-in-residence, Polly Barton, by Eric Ozawa. Polly and Eric delve into the art of translation, conversations about porn, and Polly's @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social shortlisted novel, 'What Am I, A Deer?'. tolkajournal.org/featured/an-...

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Dr. Jack Cooper @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨Big News🚨 I wrote a book! It's out on February 9th & it’s available to pre-order now! 🦈 Published by UniPress Books & @princetonupress.bsky.social & featuring incredible art by the amazing Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social, you can pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Megalodon-Ot... 🦈 (1/4)

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October issues of The Dark, @nightmare-magazine.com, Dirty Magick, @locusmag.bsky.social, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @adventitiouswords.bsky.social, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and Sally Port are here and en route to subscribers: weightlessbooks.com/2026/10/

Cover art for The Dark issue 137, featuring an undead person with long black hair hanging from the ceiling in a doorway open on a checkered corridor

Flash Fiction Online October 2026 issue cover, featuring abstract white-on-black lines and textures

Cover art for Adventitious Issue Five, featuring a Black person wearing a great great horned owl head as a hat up to their shoulders in waves with a huge moon and another owl behind them

Cover for Locus Magazine #789, featuring a row of white doors in a blank white hallway, one of them open on a glowing red room

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions are open now! Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... (The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Join us for a special night focused on environmental writing across fact, fiction and hopeful futures, with E.J. Swift, winner of the 2026 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Cal Flyn, winner of the 2026 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing. Weds 11 Nov Book now 👉 www.waterstones.com/events/wolve...

Book covers of When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift and The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn

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birch sap | sú beithe @birchsap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

terrifying. Drivers are not paying attention at all!

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With every news cycle and legislative session, it seems that a new facet of book banning finds its way into the media. Take a look at the latest efforts to ban books and what people are doing to fight back... buff.ly/GW0k31g #library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarianship #lit

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Book Banning Challenges throughout the US

How are you supporting your libraries in the fight against book banning?

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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Twenty-eight years later, in 2006, the same team, Earls and O'Doherty, launched the pilot issue of a purely online review, then an absolutely unknown phenomenon on the Irish cultural scene. Twenty years later, the Dublin Review of Books is still going strong, as is Books Upstairs after forty-eight.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In "From Hate to Hallows," Todne Thomas @blkvoicemedium.bsky.social explores the meanings Black people make from Black church arson following a 2015 incident in Thomas' hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Rpq4MTE

Cover of From Hate to Hallows: Reframing Black Church Arson by Todne Thomas. The cover features an orange and red sky scattered with dark flecks above a black silhouetted church with a cross. The title appears in large white letters across the upper half. The subtitle is in spaced white lettering below the church with "Reframing" above "Black Church Arson" and the author's name in gold at the bottom.

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So excited about my first PM Deal report! Also proud and grateful to have two poetry books forthcoming: Field of Want, Etruscan Press, Spring 2028 Definition of Elegy: New & Collected Prose Poems, Cornerstone Press, fall 2027

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Deal Report
FIELD OF WANT
By Amorak Huey
Imprint: Etruscan Press
Cofounder of River River Books and professor at Bowling Green State University Amorak Huey's FIELD OF WANT, which explores distance, desire, and geography-in particular the fields of Ohio and the American Midwest-featuring the syntax of place, the light of the moon, the isolation of being alive, to Etruscan Press, for publication in April 2028.
Poetry
September 28, 2026

Screenshot of the first page of a book contract between Cornerstone Press and Amorak Huey for Definition of Elegy: New and Collected Prose Poems

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I want to read your memoirs.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/09/2026

Your old books could have another life—not just on your shelf, but in the library. #ToolsYouCanUse

Event flyer for "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation," with a colorful abstract line drawing of a library building rendered in interlocking yellow, pink, and blue lines at the top, event details — "Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm - 10pm, Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco" — alongside it, and the title text at the bottom.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/09/2026

What's on your bookshelf that the Internet Archive doesn't have? There's an app for that. Scan a book's barcode or ISBN to see whether the Internet Archive needs it for preservation and digitization. Scan your shelves. Save a book. help.archive.org/help/donate-... 🧵

Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Congratulations to Anna-Leah Simon, winner of this year’s Brian Beaton Annual Prize in Journalism for Justice! 🎉 Anna-Leah has written and contributed to numerous articles and video reports for us, many of them focussing on Indigenous language revitalization efforts. nbmediacoop.org/2026/09/29/a...

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Anna-Leah Simon is this year’s winner of the Brian Beaton Annual Prize in Journalism for Justice

The winner of this year’s Brian Beaton Annual Prize in Journalism for Justice is Anna-Leah Simon. Anna-Leah has written and

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John Creedon @johncreedon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1970s & 80s Ireland is the setting for my new memoir - This Boy's Voice - as I negotiate Boarding School, Boot Boys, Broadcasting, Babies, Relationships & Rathmines! A story of failure & frolics on the journey home to me. Now available to pre-order. I hope you enjoy. Thank you.

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Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lookie what I just got in the mail. It's the new @mgliterary.bsky.social anthology, Harvest Moon, Volume Two. Featuring my award-winning story "The Madness East of St. George". You can get yours at www.moonlitgetaway.com/category/har...

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birch sap | sú beithe @birchsap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Folks, if you write something to me that sounds like AI whipped it together, that's a block. Ditto for accounts with numbers in the profile name. Combo? I assume you're a bot and block. I'm here for authentic interactions only. (Also: bsky isn't a dating app. Give over.) Sláinte.

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Influence is so mysterious, isn’t it, you don’t really know how and why something stays in your consciousness ..." Denise Rose Hansen on BLUE SUNSET ( @dorothyproject.bsky.social ) minorliteratures.com/2026/09/29/i...

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birch sap | sú beithe @birchsap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

nancyforde.substack.com

my brain darkening*

On my WiP about bogs, Iron Age bog bodies, death, ritual sacrifice, environment as sacred, longevity, and letting go. Meditations on preserving our planet’s future and our own.

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms. redpopnews.com/beyond-the-g...

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Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms Receives 2026 American Book Award

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Tordotcom Publishing @tordotcompub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Searching for a new mystery to read now that there's a chill in the air?🍂 We've got you covered!📚🔍

A stack of books resting on an orange fabric surface with an orange fabric background. The books in the stack are: Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite, The Killing of a Chestnut Tree by Oliver K. Langmead, Rose/House by Arkady Martine, Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk, Extremity by Nicholas Binge, and The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older.

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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 28/09/2026

#worldkidlitmonth Shaw Kuzuki is a 2nd-generation atomic bomb survivor. She began writing in 2004, taking care to tell the story of "Hiroshima and the A-bomb tragedy that caused such catastrophic destruction and casualties". She has noted, "There are so many stories of Hiroshima to be written."

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Shaw Kuzki: Japanese beloved writer for children and young people

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#Booksky Haunts & Horrors is coming up next! Find us at @badweatherbrew.bsky.social in #StPaulMN next Sunday 10/4 1-5PM for Haunts & Horrors Book Fair! #bookfair #spookybooks

Flyer for the Haunts & Horrors Book Fair.

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Daniela Cascella will be sharing an evening with Ellen Dillon on Friday 9 October to discuss their latest work. >> Hundred Years Gallery, London. Admission free, register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/little-books-long-titles-daniela-cascella-ellen-dillon-tickets-1997833455646 @drnollid.bsky.social

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Little Books, Long Titles: Daniela Cascella + Ellen Dillon

In this celebration of the joys of little books, Daniela and Ellen will read from and discuss the writing of their latest publications.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 24/09/2026

Open up a new world. Let’s read together. New art by Margaret Vail Palmquist

Graphic says "Haymarket Books; Books for changing the world."
A book is open like a door, and two figures emerge; one holding what appears to be a torch.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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