We are delighted to announce the guest editor for our next open submission series, The Damned, will be none other than Anne Boyer!

The call and submission guidelines will be going out in early 2025 – follow us on X, Instagram, or stay signed up to the Book Works newsletter to be the first to know when it goes live.

Anne Boyer is a poet, artist, and essayist. Her works include The Undying, Garments Against Women, and A Handbook of Disappointed Fate. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages, and her honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a Windham-Cambell prize, the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, and a Whiting Award. Originally from Kansas, she now lives in Edinburgh.

October 23 2024, 1pm
Online. Free and open to all, RSVP here.

Graphic Negotiations is back for a fourth series of online conversations with designers, with the first event featuring regular Book Works collaborators, Traven T. Croves.

Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas in the final form of the book. While conventionally designers often become involved in the later stages of a book’s production, and with a limited brief, we involve the designer in a collaborative process from the start, with designer, artist and editor working together to create a book that realises the artists’ vision.

Graphic Negotiations is a series of lunchtime talks with designers, some of whom we’ve worked with in the past. The format and topic will vary – we wanted to give designers the opportunity to present their work in whichever way they choose. In some cases designers will be in conversation with artists they’ve collaborated with in the past, in others they’ll talk about their work and ideas more generally or present a visual portfolio.

For the 13th event in the series, we’ll be joined by Traven T. Croves, the collaborative design project of Matthew Stuart and Andrew Walsh-Lister. Together also run the journal/publishing project Bricks From the Kiln.

Sign up to the readers club in October and you’ll receive Property Journal as your first title.

From December 2021 to December 2022, artist and writer Amy Ching-Yan Lam kept a record of each time real estate, property or housing came up in conversation. She called this the Property Journal.

Over the course of a year, neighbourhood landmarks are demolished, politicians break promises, friends despair, and parents age. Mould appears to grow on Lam’s face moisturiser; as property organises people’s lives, it also overtakes them. What began as a simple framework soon becomes an index of precarity, told through the indignities, dread, and dreamscapes of what we’re able to call ‘home’.

Tender, fierce, and mordantly funny, Property Journal is a damning indictment of the permanent state of affairs known as the housing crisis.

Amy Ching-Yan Lam is an artist and writer. She is the author of the poetry collection, Baby Book (2023, Brick Books), a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards in Poetry, and Looty Goes to Heaven (2022, Eastside Projects). From 2006 to 2020 she was in the performance art duo Life of a Craphead. She lives in Tkaronto/Toronto, and was born in Hong Kong.

Property Journal is co-published with Richmond Art Gallery, Canada, with the support of Canada Council as part of our Co-Series, no. 25.