Writers

Center for Book Arts is looking for writers to answer how practical and creative considerations intersect with the vision for an artists’ book? How does that process change how we read and see it? Deadline: 18 April 2022 Center for Book Arts promotes active explorations of artistic practices related to the book as an art object. It is a nonprofit dedicated to uplifting and furthering the book art through education, preservation, exhibition, generation, and community building. Book Art Review is its plan to make book art criticism more visible and more valuable, and to engage with a diverse group of writers and readers. The path of publication from artists’ book conception to final form is an often convoluted one, involving welcome surprises as well as tradeoffs and compromises determined by budget, materials, creative ideas and other logistics. While those within the publishing industry are well aware of this process and the many people it involves (from editors, printers, binders, and the artist whose name appears on the cover), critics, readers, and even first-time-publisher artists, are often unaware of this labor of collective authorship and how those decisions shape the final form and its reception. For more information, visit their website. Before applying, review submission guidelines.