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Future Library: Publishing Fair

OOMK is organising a small press & zine fair at OSE – featuring over 40 small publishers and zine stalls. There will be work for sale as well as reference displays of zines and artists’ book collections. Stalls are free but each stall holder will be required to donate a zine or book to OOMK’s Future Library project at Open School East.

Music: Big Joanie
Food + Drink: BARBEDOUN

Exhibitors
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OOMK
Book Works
OSE
Abondance Matanda
Ameena Khan
Authorrising
Backwards Burd
Banner Repeater
Brigid Deacon
British Values
Centrala UK
Chloe Spicer
Clod Magazine

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THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE – #ACCUMULATOR_PLUS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

We are delighted to announce that issue 9 is guest edited by Hannah Sawtell.

#ACCUMULATOR_PLUS will be published by Book Works in September 2016 and broadcast online as a radio show. The Happy Hypocrite is now looking for submissions for this forthcoming issue.

This new issues asks how sound and writing interact, and how, in keeping with Sawtell’s own work, we might relate sound to text, and text to sound.

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BOOKBINDING COURSES – WINTER 2016

Two nine week Bookbinding for Beginners Evening Courses on Mondays or Wednesdays.

Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding and boxmaking techniques referring to a variety of historical and contemporary styles. During the courses we will use a range of different materials.

Each course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio in Shoreditch.

If you would like to book please email jan@bookworks.org.uk or call 020 7247 2536.

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Semina: Open call for Submission

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSION
DEADLINE
4 JANUARY 2016

Semina, the series of experimental novels guest edited by Stewart Home is looking for new blood!

If you are an artist or writer willing to take risks with their prose and who demonstrate total disregard for the conventions that structure received ideas about fiction, we’d like your submission. Please send a proposal outline and a sample of between 3000 & 5000 words of the proposed work, along with a completed application form, including submission fee and CV, by 4 January 2016 to:

Semina
Book Works
19 Holywell Row
London EC2A 4JB

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Ask for Sara: A Day of Gossip, Anecdote and Feminist Art Practice in Archives

‘What would it mean to let the custodian, archivist, librarian guide a research enquiry through her personal testimony of the histories, people and drama of a collection’s narrative? To court the anecdote is to do bad research. To court gossip – the anecdote’s deviant cousin – is to subvert research altogether.’

– Holly Pester

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BOOKBINDING FOR BEGINNERS – AUTUMN 2015

Two nine week courses in hand bookbinding, on either Monday evening or Wednesday evening. Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding techniques through a variety of historical and contemporary styles, and to use conventional and unconventional binding materials. There will also be a chance to develop a personal project in the latter stages.

The course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio in Shoreditch.

If you would like to book please email jan@bookworks.org.uk or call 020 7247 2536.

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BOOKBINDING FOR BEGINNERS – WINTER 2015

Two nine week courses in hand bookbinding, on either Monday evening or Wednesday evening. Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding techniques through a variety of historical and contemporary styles, and to use conventional and unconventional binding materials. There will also be a chance to develop a personal project in the latter stages.

The course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio in Shoreditch.

Read more