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Open Set 2025 Competition & Exhibition

American Academy of Bookbinding

The OPEN • SET 2025 Competition & Exhibition is an event in the United States featuring finely crafted bookbindings.  Sponsored by the American Academy of Bookbinding, it is designed to encourage […]

Gold Tooling

American Academy of Bookbinding

at the American Academy of Bookbinding taught by Don Glaister Learn the fundamental techniques and practices of gold tooling. Transform drawn designs on paper to sparkling designs in gold on […]

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Letter Quest

Zoom CA

with Kelcey Gray Go on an alphabetic adventure with designer, educator, and author of Let’s Make Letters!, Kelcey Gray.   Are you seeking more adventurous ways of letter-making? During this […]

Introduction to Modern Type Design

Zoom CA

with Kel Troughton Design your own original typeface in 10 weeks! During this 10-week online course (meeting on Monday evenings from October 2-December 11—no meeting on November 20), you will […]

The Flexible Mirror: Contemporary Book Design Online Workshop

Zoom CA

with Kevin Barrett Kane, Emma Christine Hall   Learn the fundamentals of book design from seasoned pros, including layout, typesetting, cover design, and manufacturing. During this three-week online workshop (Tuesdays […]

Thinking With Your Hands

Zoom CA

with Cyrus Highsmith This hands-on workshop helps you explore different ways of drawing, making, and seeing letters. In this two-week workshop (two Wednesdays and Thursdays in a row, starting on […]

Read For Filth: A 24-Hour Celebration Of Banned Books

Fabulosa Books 489 Castro Street, San Francisco

Fabulosa Books announces Read For Filth, a 24 hour celebration of queer literature in the Castro. At a moment when LGBTQIA+ books are under attack and anti-gay harassment is spiking, […]

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Leaning Toward Light: A Reading of Poets Who Tend the Earth

San Francisco Botanical Garden 1199 9th Ave, San Francisco

Let's gather in the serene environs of the San Francisco Botanical Garden to honor the spiritual solace that can be found in reading poetry—and in tending the earth. In her […]

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AI and the Future of Literature

Gray Area 2665 Mission Street, San Francisco

The tech and literary worlds converge as ZYZZYVA Editor-in-Chief Oscar Villalon moderates a panel of Silicon Valley technologists and authors on how AI will change our writing process. Would literature and writers be automated, […]