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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

thanks for all your interest! we will now get to work reading the applications, and be in touch by September either way.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

SFF, we need to talk. I'm not here to rag specifically on Bona, who did the right thing by going public. No, I'm looking at all of you. Or at least, 15 of you. Because this right here? This is buckwild.

Once we’d picked our hearts off the floor, we started digging: Bella had minimal online presence, first appearing in May 2025. Since then, she’d accumulated a remarkable publication record (we counted 15 published stories in 12 months), across name publishers and small or community-minded outlets, including several paying SFWA rates (like us).

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It is something which is being done to us by a long, purposeful dismantling of institutions that support mass literacy. I have essay coming later this year, but basics are covered in this talk. Deliteracy is not symptom of algorithmic tech, the tech is being developed to assist deliteracy.

theamericanvandal.com

After OpenAI (Vandal Live at Wake Forest Humanities Institute)

Listen now (83 mins) | Apple Podcasts | Spotify

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Horowitch’s version is technological determinism, following McLuhan. Postliteracy is result of a changing media ecosystem. Those changes cannot be resisted, just adapted to. Technological development is inevitable, value neutral, & without intent. But deliteracy began before digital revolution. 6/

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 08/07/2026

Sick benefit shirt for our bud Des by the incredible Sugar Bombing sugarbombing-store.myshopify.com/products/001...

A black and white design featuring the text "this machine kills fascists" in bold lettering alongside an image of a photocopy machine. The copier has a circle-a for anarchism drawn on it and stickers that read "Free Des" and "Zines are not a crime."

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We are now accepting applications for vendors for the 2026 Dublin Small Press Fair (Nov. 27/28 in Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2): forms.gle/Vhgo12K3wvYD...

text reads "...come make culture with us". under that, four photos: a table of books and magazines, a hand holding a button that reads "dublin small press fair", a table of zines and print ephemera, and people browsing.

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

it's time! get your applications in by Friday, July 10. make zines? we are especially interested in seeing your work:

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

it's time! get your applications in by Friday, July 10. make zines? we are especially interested in seeing your work:

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Want to table at this year's Dublin Small Press Fair? You have until the end of the week to apply!

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

four more days! free to apply, free to table for accepted vendors! #DublinSmallPressFair

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tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

there’s a new independent british children’s book publisher called do re mi books and i am obsessed with them. the most beautiful books. i want to buy them for myself!

Ban ban’s bakery cover. ban ban is a pink rabbit holding a big japanese-style strawberry shortcake. also on the cover are other animal friends, a star friend, and various japanese baked goods. and strawberries. by elena hiroko magee

interior spread from ban ban’s bakery. text reads:

baking with Grandma!
Here they are carefully decorating Grandma's special strawberry shortcake!

Image is ban ban with an older pink bunny. they are in the kitchen and decorating the shortcake.

Book cover for How to Be a Cat by Sam Voulters and Yoshiko Hada. Cover is a big yellow and orange cat with a paw on its head and a small pink child putting their hand on their head in imitation of the cat

Interior spread. The cat is drinking water from a bowl and the child is drinking water in imitation of the cat from a different bowl. Text reads: i drink my water from a bowl

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

lots of ye are up late watching football. maybe you should be Up Late Applying To Table At The Dublin Small Press Fair. just sayin

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We are now accepting applications for vendors for the 2026 Dublin Small Press Fair (Nov. 27/28 in Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2): forms.gle/Vhgo12K3wvYD...

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

ahem call for 2026 Dublin Small Press Fair vendors is open! closes July 10:

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

reminder this is tonight! There will be a selection of queer zines for Pride Month from @salfordzinelibrary.bsky.social collection available to browse #diyzines

a selection of zines including: Queer Masses, Dyke Dreams, Pink Mince, A bookish look at queer history

lots of queer themed zines laid out including: dirty lesbian, bitter feels, a queer menopause, small town girl, sapphic angst fest

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

want to sell books? watch for a call for vendors in the next week

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Finally getting some time for all the books I picked up at @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social

Pages from THE LAUNDRY STRIKE 1945, compiled and edited by Mary Martin with illustrations by Rank & File Collective, purchased from Cailleach Books

SAINTS by Tim MacGabhann (Scratch Books)

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Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

We were thrilled to travel to Dublin last month to take part in the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair, a two-day event held in Pearse Street Library.

A promotional shot taken at Dublin Small Press Fair 2025. Three women standing in front of a promotional pop-up banner against a white wall backdrop. Two of them are holding books.

A promotional shot taken at Dublin Small Press Fair 2025. A close-up shot of a woman selling books at a stall, with two books visible at the bottom of the image.

A promotional shot taken at Dublin Small Press Fair 2025. A close-up shot of the header of the Dublin Small Press Fair 2025 flyer.

A promotional shot taken at Dublin Small Press Fair 2025. A shot of attendees and booksellers standing/sitting among or behind book stalls, listening to readings from literary magazine contributors (not in shot).

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Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Our December newsletter has landed in your inbox!✉️ Catch up on Bullaun’s latest news, including an exciting shortlisting announcement, a recap of the @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social, and our Christmas Bundle!🎁 Not subscribed to our newsletter? Sign up at bullaunpress.com 📚

Scott Moncrieff Prize Graphic. A pile of five books - the shortlist - on a table, set against a blurred background (books on shelves).

Book Fair Stall. Bullaun Press titles organised on a table, with price tags and labels. Oranges on the table for decoration.

Christmas Bundle offer graphic. A pile of books set against a background with the following text: 2025 Christmas Book Bundle. 2 Translated Titles of your choice, Limited Signed Editions available. Support Independent Publishing.

Red Christmas bow superimposed on graphic.

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maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

this is why i'm sceptical about ireland's emphasis on individual artist bursaries and artists basic income... it means we can pay rent but its ultimately just more money that goes into landlords pockets, it's not enough, artists need infrastructure and cities need spaces like this, for everyone

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

"The nature of a pop-up is that it is drawing to a close from the moment that it opens. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It can help to give it focus and purpose." SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log

Brian Lewis setting up displays at the first iteration of SHIP (Sheffield Independent Publishers), Winter Garden, Sheffield, July 2018. Photograph by Emma Bolland.

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Yo! If you missed the first two printings, tonight I cranked out 100 more copies of the Public Collectors booklet "Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?" Still just $6.00 from the Half Letter Press webstore. Give the gift of FUCK ICE to someone you love. halfletterpress.com/who-shares-w...

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Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents? (3rd printing)

This collection of questions is an invitation to think about situations we may encounter with ICE, a poetic rant against ICE, and a provocation for ICE’s allies.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

As makers of anarchist zines, we are asking you to help this person who was arrested and is facing deportation for allegedly having anarchist zines.

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

One of the conversations I had several times during last weekend's small press fair was about how few venues there are in Dublin that are amenable to certain types of cultural/community events; how few large-ish venues around that won't charge you 5-10k to take over the space for a day or two

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martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

"I learned about close reading when I asked them to take their own thinking seriously—to take themselves seriously. Doing so, I found, forced me to take my job more seriously." Loved this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review

Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/11/2025

Updated the post with a verified Venmo link! It's in the blog post, or you can go directly to it here: linktr.ee/sinijay8#230...

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

contingentmagazine.org

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians

Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

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Meg Mulrooney @megmulrooney.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

So much good here, but IMHO the key point is that close reading enables students to believe “that they are capable, that they can do it.” They have been hollowed out, too, denied self-efficacy by modern educational systems. Freire, hooks, so many have taught us how to teach. If we will only do it.

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Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

There is so much in this incredible essay that I relate to, not just as one of the few people in my field who values/ uses "close reading" (therefore criticised for this). Also the moral injury and harm of austerity (economic, educational, social & cognitive), hollowing out what makes us human.

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

did a thing, see you next time

a top-down view of books on a bed—tiny press books for the most part, beautifully colorful and of all different formats and sizes. also a bag of cookies. well, that's the small press fair in a nutshell: bunch of small books and a thing of sweets

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

goodnight sweet ladies goodnight goodnight goodnight

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Perfused With Signs / Paradoxographorum Reliquiae @perfusedwithsigns.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

A grand day out with @bibliorefuses.bsky.social / @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social & @hardimanmk.bsky.social. Met @swanriverpress.bsky.social in the flesh (yes, books were bought), chatted pleasantly with @sinoistbooks.bsky.social, @renardpress.com & other publishers. 👏👏@dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social 📚

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

AND ALT TEXXXXXXTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!! we love it

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The vibes have been immaculate. Thanks so much to everyone who joined us today ❤️

Aesthetically pleasing dog (name & owner unknown), hand of Dublin Small Press Fair volunteer Saorla holding DSPF flyer (designed by Éireann Lorsung)

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

we found a phone left behind—if you can identify it, let us know @groenbot.bsky.social

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

and starting at noon, in the Leabharlann Beag corner, a poet or writer will read directly to you! #popupliterature

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

quick 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

a table full of small books including an accordion with prints of jars or pots in blue, an upright print of Roman inscribed stones printed in mimeograph-purple, and an open book with the same stones (Antiphon Editions, UK)

a table showing books on a small stand and also lying flat. there is a particularly colorful one on the table. this is Roberts Print (UK)

table of small zines and stickers lying flat and three zines standing up. all brightly colored. this is Mossy Press (US and Belfast)

at the Cailleach Books (IE) table, tons of zines of various sizes lying flat and a few standing up

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

What are you doing this weekend? @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social is happening and we can't wait! dublinsmallpressfair.com

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New Island Books @newislandbooks.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Coming February 2026: an anthology edited by Molly Hennigan, featuring some of Ireland’s finest writers, inspired by the life and work of Maeve Brennan. www.newisland.ie/shop/p/an-as...

A book cover titled An Asylum for My Affections: Sketches of Maeve Brennan, edited by Molly Hennigan. The design features a cream background with elegant black serif text. At the center is a rectangular teal frame containing a black-and-white photograph of a woman seated and turned slightly to the side against a pink backdrop. The cover is displayed on a larger pink background bordered by teal.

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Irelandia Press @irelandiapress.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Today's the day! Pop by for some great small presses and even better books! 📚 #DublinSmallPressFair #IndiePublishing

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

or pick up a copy at the #DublinSmallPressFair today, 10-4. nice and dry in the Pearse Street Library!

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