[Brooklyn, NY]

Bookmaking for Writers with Rebekah Smith
June 21, 2025, 5:30 pm
at UDP Studio at The Old American Can Factory

This one-day workshop will introduce participants to bookmaking basics, with a focus on how to think about your writing and book project in connection to each other. We’ll cover different kinds of paper, printing, binding, tools, and methods, and you will be introduced to at least two bookbinding techniques that you can use at home. Together, we will think about how the work you’re writing can interact creatively with the form of the book you are making. Through a combination of discussion, examples, and hands-on activities, you will be introduced to practical methods for making your own small editions of books.

Limited to 10 participants. All materials included.
It is a four hours workshop, with a break.

Rebekah Smith is a writer, translator, and editor. She edits books at Ugly Duckling Presse, and makes small edition artist books and chapbooks with her side project, Johan Johan Editions. Her writing has appeared in Poems by Sunday; No, Dear; and is forthcoming in a belladonna* chaplet. Her translations from Spanish include The Sea by Victoria Cóccaro (DoubleCross, 2024) and Ova Completa (UDP, 2021). She is a 2024 NEA Literature in Translation Fellow.