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Sarah Pelletier
@sarahpelletier.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Carleton University (Ottawa 🇨🇦). English & Print Culture. Studying C19 typographical trade journals, skill, labour, gender, & race. Letterpress printer, bookbinder/boxmaker + book artist.
https://carleton.ca/english/people/sarah-pelletier/
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We encourage applications from early career researchers (ECRs) and especially welcome applications from BIPOC!

See the full call for applications for more details on how to apply: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
August 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Call for Applications: SHARP News Bibliographers

As @bibliowingate.bsky.social's term comes to an end, we're looking to shake things up & establish a bibliography team of 2+ people.

Applications due October 1 2025.

The full call for applications and how to apply:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers – SHARP NEWS
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August 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Introductions are hard.
August 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
We're looking for fun and cool short articles on books and bookish things in the everyday, pop culture, etc etc etc

#BookHistory #PrintCulture #Publishing #PopCulture
Call for Submissions for our Features section which focus on books as "concepts, symbols, the subjects of viral social media posts, set pieces in pop culture, and more!" What: A 1000-2000 word article, review, interview; a 5-10 minute video. #BookHistory #popculture

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SHARP Features Proposals
Please use this form to submit proposals for Features pieces. If you have any questions, email editor Allie Alvis at news-features@sharpweb.org
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August 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I always forget to self promote online, but I'm closing in on a final draft of my dissertation, so ...

Hi! I'm Sarah. I study print history in C19-20 Canada. I'm a letterpress printer who wishes she could print more.

Current Mood: I ordered pastries to pick up this weekend. Thank. God.
July 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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@sarahpelletier.bsky.social's talk is about the misogynistic humour in *The Printer’s Miscellany*"

It was advertized—but crucially only twice!—as half price for women (50¢, same price as for boy apprentices).

No female names appear in the list of its contributors.

#RSVP2025 #BookHistory
The printer's miscellany. - Canadiana
The printer's miscellany. : Saint John, N.B. : H. Finlay, [1876-1882]
www.canadiana.ca
July 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Putting the final touches on your final #19thC periodicals paper? Why not submit it to our VanArsdel Prize? Submissions are open through June 15! The best grad student essay on Victorian periodicals wins $500 + publication in VPR. rs4vp.org/awards/vanar...
#VanArsdelPrize #RSVPprizes
The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize – RSVP
The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a…
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May 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Hey, grad students! Do you have a great essay you’d like to publish? The deadline for the Hamilton Prize is coming up: July 1, 2025. The winner will have their work published in the journal and receive $500 CAD. See the website for details. victorianreview.org?page_id=358
Prizes | Victorian Review
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May 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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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.
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...
ukjobs.uky.edu
April 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I know someone in my feed would be perfect for this job to “lead and coordinate the outreach, programming, and book arts production efforts of the University of Kentucky Libraries’ King Library Press”
May 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Dropped by @skeuomorphpress.org to check on @transbookhistory.bsky.social’s community print for Trans Day of Visibility & found it bustling, full of kids & families happily setting wood type & printing these incredible broadsides. If we founded Skeuomorph for anything it was for events like that
April 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Check out this (only moderately embarrassing) video of me showing off the @ransomcenter.bsky.social’s small but mighty collection of hornbooks.

Stick around to the end to see an exciting new acquisition. (And tell me if you’ve seen another like it.)

youtu.be/PyPu3Vum1lQ?...
Exploring hornbooks, the educational devices that instructed children for centuries
YouTube video by Harry Ransom Center
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March 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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posting this again bc some ppl I know have said they haven't figured out how to follow more ppl on bluesky: go.bsky.app/NKHmh87

@joshuajfriedman.com are you still taking names on this or is it full?
March 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM