NewLights Press

A screenshot of the NewLights Press website store. There is a navigation menu for the website at the top, and another navigation menu just for the store below that. The page "Books From Friends" is highlighted in red. Below that are images of books laid out in a 3 x 3 grid. The first four have different colored cardstock covers with a different small image printed on each. The fifth shows a receipt book with its first page unfolded. The last shows a a book cover with the image of a white man with glasses and short hair in profile. The book is bound with thread wrapped through two holes on the left side of the book. The titles and prices of the books are listed under each image. They are: "2 Lists & A Poem Abt Lists," $5, "Shit Slips," $5 "The Paint Factory Years," $9, "Halcyon," $9, "Before I Spoke to Myself," $9, "Probably, Ohio," $15.

2025 books from @betweenthehighway.bsky.social are now available in the NLP store, under the "Books From Friends" category. Betweenthehighway prints & publishes using a receipt printer. But hey, look, there's a book book in there too.
www.newlightspress.com/store?catego...

A digital flyer for an art book sale. The image in the top 2/3 shows the covers of many different art books. The main text, at the bottom of the flyer, reads: "Art Book Sale. Sunday, July 27th, 12 - 4 pm at Kore Gallery. 942 E. Kentucky St., Louisville 40203. There is an orange/red band over the image that reads "Second Edition! Art Book Sale. It's a great chance to meet people with similar interests, buy a few books and have fun."

Hey #louisville and #art #book people, this sale is happening at Kore Gallery on Sunday, July 27th. It's an informal used-books-about-art sale, but I'll also be bringing some artists' books! 12 - 4 pm. 942 E. Kentucky St., Louisville 40203.

Emerging Artist Fellowship - Codex Foundation The CODEX Emerging Artist Fellowships aim to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the world of book arts by helping to reduce the financial barriers to exhibiting at the CODEX Book Fair. […]

The CODEX Emerging Artist Fellowships are a great opportunity. The deadline is approaching! Please help spread the word! www.codexfoundation.org/opportunitie...

#bookarts #letterpress #bookbinding #printmaking

And here is whole freely accessible NLP digital archive: www.newlightspress.com/digital-edit...

The Palingenesis by Corie J. Cole (standard license PDF) — NewLights Press A PDF version of the artists' book The Palingenesis by Corie J. Cole, published by the NewLights Press in 2019.

There is also a downloadable high-res PDF version for sale on the NLP site (downloads are free for NLP Subscribers): www.newlightspress.com/store/paling...

The Palingenesis Digital version of an out-of-print book.\nDrawings and text by Corie J. Cole\n36 pages, pamphlet stitch with attached jacket\n8” x 6.5” (closed)\nRisograph interior with letterpress printed jacket, co...

I recently added a few out-of-print NLP books to the digital archive. First up is The Palingenesis by @coriejcole.bsky.social heyzine.com/flip-book/21...

#artistsbooks #bookarts #letterpress #printmaking #artistbooks #bookbinding #artistspublishing

One month until the deadline!

A digital flyer with an orange background, nearly white and very dark purple text, and yellow apostrophes as design elements. The text reads: "S Apostrophe S Artist Book Readings. Season 3 Call for Proposals Now Open! Deadline: August 3, 2025 at 10 pm EST."

SAS Season 3 Call for Proposals! We are seeking proposals for readings of #artistsbooks that are not yet completed or that are over three years old and will be completely reimagined for the reading format. Deadline: August 3, 2025 at 10 pm EST.

Full details: www.newlightspress.com/sas-submissi...

This is the poster for the 2025 Kentuckiana Zine Fest in Louisville, KY. It is a cartoon image of a blue squid, standing on a sidewalk in front of a brick wall. The squid is holding multiple sheets of paper and folded zines in its arms and is simultaneously drawing, stapling them into booklets, and showing them to the viewer. The zines have the info about the zine fest. They read: "Fourth Annual Kentuckiana Zine Fest. May 31st, 2025. 3 pm to 7 pm. Located at Logan St. Market." The poster was designed by Ryan Thornton.

Tomorrow! As in Sat. May 31st. Kentuckiana #zinefest at Logan Street Market in #louisville KY. 3 to 7 pm. Poster by Ryan Thornton.

#zines #bookarts #kentucky #indiana

So sorry, Anselm.

Oh, and it's free and I plan to keep it that way! It will feature essays and interviews about books & print & the infrastructures that sustain them. Current things I'm writing on: "text-image constructs," capitalism and (book)arts education, and different types of reading.

OLDLIGHTS PRESS (AN INTRODUCTION) Getting started on the new IDE(A/O)(B)LOG(Y/UE)

I started a newsletter! Or really I restarted the NewLights Press IDE(A/O)(B)LOGY(Y/UE). First post with more info is linked below.
open.substack.com/pub/newlight...

Direct link here: careers.share.nm.gov/psc/hprdcg/E...

Another full-time #letterpress and #bookarts opportunity, this time at the Palace Press at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe. Great city plus you'd get to work with some wonderful people! (Type "letterpress" into the search bar to find the posting.) careers.share.nm.gov/psc/hprdcg/E...

Thanks for the clarification! It's going to be invite-only for the foreseeable future. NewLights Press is just me, so I need to keep it small and manageable.

I don't understand your question. Can you elaborate?

Starting off with work from the Book Arts Solidarity Network, Sarah Nicholls, Emily Larned, @hollycurcio.bsky.social @the-ethelzine.bsky.social and @betweenthehighway.bsky.social

Store — NewLights Press

NewLights Press has officially started selling books by other artist-publishers! The main goal is to help good people get good work out into the world at book fairs that they can't normally attend. But they're online too!
www.newlightspress.com/store?catego...

#bookarts #letterpress #artistsbooks

This is the poster for the 2025 Kentuckiana Zine Fest in Louisville, KY. It is a cartoon image of a blue squid, standing on a sidewalk in front of a brick wall. The squid is holding multiple sheets of paper and folded zines in its arms and is simultaneously drawing, stapling them into booklets, and showing them to the viewer. The zines have the info about the zine fest. They read: "Fourth Annual Kentuckiana Zine Fest. May 31st, 2025. 3 pm to 7 pm. Located at Logan St. Market." The poster was designed by Ryan Thornton.

Looking forward to the Kentuckiana Zine Fest here in Louisville on May 31! 3 - 7 pm, at Logan Street Market. The poster was designed by Ryan Thornton. Applications are still open and tables are only $25: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#bookarts #letterpress #printmaking #zines

This a great #letterpress #bookarts opportunity in Lexington, KY! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/581...

Head, King Library Press The University of Kentucky Libraries is vital to fulfilling the goals of enhancing and expanding the university’s research and education enterprise. As part of that mission, we are looking for an enth...

New full-time #BookLab job just dropped for the #KingLibraryPress: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/580...

Please share widely as you can, I am on the search committee and am also happy to chat about what it means to live in Kentucky.

Description (3/3): We will also discuss relationships between WIP and other community entities & events that help build publishing community locally (like the Midwest Queer & Trans Zine Fest).

Description (2/3): We will talk about strategies for building capacity in your local community for DIY publishing projects. We will talk about how we opened our apartment print shop up to strangers, and how that's evolved into a brick and mortar community print shop.

The description (1/3): We are collaborators who run Late Night Copies Press, the Midwest Queer & Trans Zine Fest, and the Workshop for Independent Publishing together. wipmls.com

At the Workshop for Independent Publishing, our main program is "Open Copy," (walk-in booklet printing every Saturday).

Screenshot showing a digital flyer for the talk. It reads: "CBAA, the Association for Book Art Education. CBAA Community Book Arts Series Presentation. Community Print Shop. Monday, April 28 at 6:00 pm Central. Presenters: India Johnson and Aiden Bettine." At the bottom is the link to register for the Zoom event, which also linked in the main post. The images show interior shots of a community printshop.

I am very much looking forward to this CBAA talk by India Johnson and Aiden Bettine (Late Night Copies Press, the Midwest Queer & Trans Zine Fest, and the Workshop for Independent Publishing) on Monday, 4/28, at 6 pm CST. Registration at the link below: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Shaped for People: Sacred Harp Singing in the Age of AI - Image Journal But when I am weary, singing helps me to stand, and when I am sad, it is kind company. This makes me like a lot of people in human history, which has been exquisite, and hard. Peasants came up with vi...

Mary Margaret Alvarado, the author of the NLP book American Weather and one of my moral compasses, has a new essay about shape note singing, AI, and mortality. I highly recommend it!
imagejournal.org/article/shap...

​​MARY MARGARET ALVARADO, CORIE J. COLE, & AARON COHICK with Sommer Browning | The Brooklyn Rail Poet, artist, and publisher discuss the making of the collaborative artist book American Weather. Originally published as an essay in 2016, the artist book is about gun violence in the USA, as well as...

@sommerb.bsky.social interviewed the authors of American Weather, Mary Margaret Alvarado and @coriejcole.bsky.social for the Brooklyn Rail. It's a very sad and hopeful book. I am happy to have helped with it.

brooklynrail.org/2025/03/art_...

#letterpress #bookarts #booksky #printmaking

A screenshot showing various artworks displayed on the silent auction page for the In Cahoots Residency fundraiser.

A screenshot showing the piece "Primer Number 2 (Post) Study #12" on the In Cahoots Residency fundraiser page. The artwork is a drawing and collage on a page torn out of a book about the artist Cezanne. The image by Cezanne printed on the page is of a chair. Over top of that there is a gesso and black ink drawing of a folded piece of fabric. Collaged on top, running from the center of the composition to the upper right corner and off of the page are three lines of text rendered in the NewLights Press Threshold Alphabet. The paper that the text is cut from shows a full-color image from a medieval illuminated manuscript. The text reads: "A book... going... ...forth."

A screenshot showing the piece "Study for Drift/Fragment No. 6" on the In Cahoots Residency fundraiser page. The piece is contained within several colored rectangles. The drawing is a diptych with a gray background. A part of each sheet of paper is torn out and the shapes are repeated multiple times over the composition and painted in yellow ochre. Large white text, rendered in the NewLights Press Threshold Alphabet, runs at an angle up and to the right. The text is cut into and peeled out of the surface of the drawing. The text reads: "Day. You could. You imagine. You wake."

Two of my poem-drawing-print-things, which usually go to subscribers and thus aren't on sale very often, are up on the In Cahoots Residency silent auction fundraiser. The fundraiser supports grants to help artists attend the residency.
incahootsresidency.com/2025-auction...

#printmaking #bookarts