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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books from @ikeproject.bsky.social: The Mannequin by Carla Crujido & Questionnaire for My Grandfather by Kim Adrian. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #booktok #bookstagram

Book covers from Ike: A Publishing Project for 1. The Mannequin by Carla Crujido: In 1934, inside Spokane’s glittering Crescent Department Store, a mannequin awakens to find herself suddenly—impossibly—alive. What begins with a sneeze becomes a darkly enchanting journey through a world that sees her only as an object of beauty. As she learns to move, to speak, to feel, she must also navigate the rigid expectations of womanhood in an era obsessed with perfection and display. https://www.ikeproject.com/shop/p/the-mannequin-carla-crujido and 2. Questionnaire for My Grandfather by Kim Adrian: A quietly devastating essay that uses the structure of a questionnaire to interrogate what can—and cannot—be known about a man who shaped her family’s history. Each prompt becomes a doorway into memory, silence, and inherited mystery, revealing how the stories we tell about our elders are often built from fragments, omissions, and the emotional residue they leave behind. https://www.ikeproject.com/shop/p/questionnaire-for-my-grandfather

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📚️Current TBR Stack: Western Starlands by Toby Dunne (@whiskeytit.com) You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, trans. Natasha Wimmer The Fourth Man by Bryan Hurt (@ikeproject.bsky.social)

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

ONE WEEK LEFT ⏳ Our Kickstarter campaign, The Architecture of Identity, is down to its final days. This is the moment where every pledge truly counts. Pledge today. Tell a friend who loves short stories. Help us finish strong. 🔗 Link in bio to back the campaign.

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

IKE: A Publishing Project has been quietly building a home for shorter works each beautifully designed, thoughtfully printed, and built to last. We're launching a Kickstarter campaign: 3 new chapbooks that examine the fragile, resilient architecture of identity. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ike...

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Getting everything ready for the Portland Indie Book & Art Fair (PIBAF) hosted by Buckman Journal at Honey Latte Cafe on June 27, 2026. I just unboxed a new acrylic book display, picked up fresh postcards, and even ordered a nifty dual-purpose header to top it all off. Come join the fun.

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Congratulations to @joybaglio.bsky.social on winning a Pushcart Prize for her extraordinary short story “We Are Sorry for Your Suffering,” first published in One Story Magazine. Joy’s work continues to astonish with its emotional precision, imagination, and depth — this honor is so deeply deserved.

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

*** Preservation by Maria Lioutaia After seventy years of successful preservation, Lenin’s body is deteriorating faster than the morticians and biochemical scientists can manage. Celebrate Short Story Month with us—one chapbook at a time. Links in bio.

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🌹🌹🌹 “Some houses keep their secrets longer than the people who lived in them.” William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” endures as a quiet Southern ghost story—of memory, decay, and the woman a whole town thought it understood. Celebrate Short Story Month with us—one chapbook at a time.

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

*** Celebrate Short Story Month • Buy a short story collection. • Read a short story. • Write a short story. • Recommend your favorite short stories to your friends. • Buy a story from IKE: A Publishing Project, such as Frog Heart by @joybaglio.bsky.social. Available @asterismbooks.bsky.social

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

*** It’s Independent Bookstore Day, and we’re celebrating the places that make independent publishing possible. Indie bookstores champion the books that algorithms overlook. To every indie bookseller who has taken a chance on our chapbooks: Thank You! Support independent bookstores. ❤️📚

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

*** 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 Happy Pub Day! “Beware the frog king who lives under the river and visits the ponds of this valley; he will take your children.” Congratulations @joybaglio.bsky.social on the publication of Frog Heart. Available @asterismbooks.bsky.social

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"... all she would have done to keep her children safe and alive, all she'd tried to do, all she'd given up, yet how blind she'd been, how weak and scared her version of love had been in the face of the world and its whispering voices." Frog Heart by @joybaglio.bsky.social @ikeproject.bsky.social

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Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

ENTER "FROG HEART" GIVEAWAY (by 4/24)! Ploughshares is doing a giveaway, free to enter! Winner receives my new "Frog Heart" chapbook (by @ikeproject.bsky.social) & Ploughshares issue where the story first appeared! To enter, go to @pshares.bsky.social's Instagram post, or here: tinyurl.com/mpt5j26r

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Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

THIS APRIL! Excited to share my short story "Frog Heart" - a fairy tale about parenthood & trying to save the ones we love - originally in Ploughshares - in its new form as a standalone chapbook, thanks to @ikeproject.bsky.social! Pre-order & read about it here: asterismbooks.com/product/frog...

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

*** I Am Tom Waits! (Janice Margolis) Peek inside the mind of the fictional Tom Waits as he wanders the streets of El Lay. From the La Brea Tar Pits to the Hollywood Bowl and beyond, the traveling troubadour muses on everything from the nocturnal habits of peacocks to William Burroughs’ dipsomania.

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

*** March is Small Press Month, and IKE: A Publishing Project is celebrating by spotlighting our titles to date—ten chapbooks of short fiction, each crafted with care, intention, and love.

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

We’re thrilled to share that IKE: A Publishing Project will be publishing Frog Heart, a luminous and unsettling short story by @joybaglio.bsky.social, as a standalone chapbook—arriving April 18th. Baglio’s work captivates with its blend of the uncanny and the deeply human.

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Greetings from "war ravaged Portland." “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. youtu.be/dwGQGM9X69o

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Edward R. Murrow - See It Now (March 9, 1954)

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

*** It’s launch day for The Modernists—our Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a series of chapbooks by Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and Sherwood Anderson. We’re excited about this project and we’re asking for your help. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ike...

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The Modernists

Short stories from Hemingway, Faulkner, Woolf & Anderson

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

We’re launching a Kickstarter campaign on September 23rd. It features short stories by: Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Sherwood Anderson. We ask for your support. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ike...

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Coming soon: The Modernists

Short stories from Hemingway, Faulkner, Woolf & Anderson

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Emmerich Anklam @eianklam.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

$400 to go and 4 days left for @ikeproject.bsky.social's Kickstarter! Check it out, consider donating, and share this around:

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Our Kickstarter Campaign was just selected as a "Project We Love." We hope you'll love it too. You can find it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ike...

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Our Kickstarter project is live! If you're a fan of short stories, I hope you'll check it out. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ike...

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Short stories from an exciting new chapbook publisher

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Emmerich Anklam @eianklam.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

People who follow Heyday may know @msatris.bsky.social's work as an editor, but less well known is the fact that she's an excellent poet too! Here's a great new poem and interview with her: www.readfilterfeeder.com/p/where-the-...

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where the ordinary becomes strange & beautiful

poetry from & an interview with Marthine Satris

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

We're dealing with our own March Madness as we prepare our upcoming titles. Check them out at: www.ikeproject.com and let us know what you think.

Cover images for upcoming books from IKE: A Publishing Project.

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Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Had a marvelous time reading and discussing writing with visionary writer Allegra Hyde a few days ago, at @forbeslibrary.bsky.social in Northampton MA, as part of the Readers & Writers Live series. Read from a new short story forthcoming in One Story! Allegra’s reading was 🔥

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

“After seventy years of successful maintenance, Lenin’s body was deteriorating faster than the morticians and biochemical scientists could keep up.” Cover reveal. Pre-orders are underway. Cover art: Oleksandr Balbyshev www.ikeproject.com/shop/p/prese...

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I extend my sincere apologies to President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine on behalf of the American people.

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Here is a sneak peek at one of our upcoming titles … “When a boy wakes he must not make a sound. He must kneel beside his bed in silent prayer, like the others in the room, and feel the weight of two minutes. He must feel joy too. And gratitude. www.ikeproject.com/shop/p/the-f...

Cover image - The Future Consequences of Present Actions by Allegra Hyde

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/11/2024

I wrote much of what I think about this election before it happened, so I am going to put it all together here. My book, Autocracy Inc, described the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, inside their countries and ours www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...

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Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum: 9780385549936 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat...

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

“But the books brought me things. This is my point. They made me feel less alone.” ― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton Happy Birthday.

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J.R. Bale @jrbale.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

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Jeannie✨吳德瑀 @jeanniewl.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Random thought: Who remembers this one episode of Twilight Zone, “Time Enough At Last”? I’ll be sure to prepare for at least 3 extra pairs of glasses 👓👓👓 😊

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

“Her perfume smells like Vanity Fair magazine.” —Marie-Helene Bertino, North Of (upcoming from www.ikeproject.com)

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“Speaking of dislocation, for longer than I’d care to admit, I thought harum-scarum was an abandoned ghost town near Addis Ababa.”—Janice Margolis, I Am Tom Waits! (upcoming from www.ikeproject.com)

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

“If the people at the convenience store on Bloomingdale Road are surprised to see the bloated Voice of a Generation using the candy display to scratch the low part of his back, they keep it to themselves.”—Marie-Helene Bertino (from North Of, upcoming from www.ikeproject.com)

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I Am Tom Waits! Janice Margolis “If you want to read a story version of Being John Malkovich transferred to the mind of Mr. Waits, here you go, minus the scheming plot.”—The Florida Review (Online) www.ikeproject.com/shop/p/i-am-...

Cover of book called I Am Tom Waits! by Janice Margolis.

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

“There are American flags on school windows, on cars, on porch swings; it is the year I bring Bob Dylan home for Thanksgiving.”—Marie-Helene Bertino, North Of (upcoming from www.ikeproject.com) Image by Malika Favre.

Black and white illustration of Bob Dylan by Malika Favre.

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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“Trumpet is the most honest instrument. It never smiles when it doesn’t mean it, cries when it does, is mean as hell when deserved.” (from I Am Tom Waits! - upcoming from www.ikeproject.com)

Illustration of Tom Waits drinking a cup of coffee and smoking a cigarette. Illustration by Diego Riselli.

Illustration of Tom Waits by Alvar Sirlin.

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