BOMB's Small Press Flea 2026

BOMB’s Small Press Flea (SPF) returns on August 15, 2026 to host an all-day market dedicated to supporting over thirty independent publishers and small presses from across the US at Amant, a contemporary art center in Brooklyn. This year’s SPF promises to provide your end-of-summer reading, arts and literary workshops, and refreshments.

Rain or shine, unless it’s pouring, 12–6 PM Saturday, August 15. Enter at 316 Ten Eyck St.

Workshops will take place at 306 Maujer St and 315 Maujer, Brooklyn, NY (the Amant Campus)

To join a workshop, RSVP via the “Reserve a spot” button. Read below to find out more information about our workshops.

Full Schedule:

12 PM—BOMB’s Small Press Flea Opens! Come tour the booths and meet the publishers at the Amant lot

1–2:30 PM—Workshop: Animating in Motion (“It’s ALIVE!”) (all ages) hosted by BOMB’s Summer 2026 issue comic contributor Margaret Barry Location: 306 Maujer St.

3–5 PM—Workshop: The Infra-Ordinary with Lucy Ives. Location: 315 Maujer St.

6 PM—SPF closes

Animating in Motion (“It’s ALIVE!”) with Margaret Barry, BOMB’s 2026 Summer issue contributor

Single Page Grid Animation

August 15, 1–2:30 PM

AZ gallery, 306 Maujer

Animation is all about bringing things to life through movement! Break out of the sedentary routine and join us for a dynamic, expressive workshop where your own body’s language becomes the first sketch. No prior drawing or animation experience is required—just bring your energy, comfortable clothes, and a desire to create.

We’ll move our bodies—swinging arms, rotating ankles, and noticing the unique paths made by our limbs, breath, and eyes—to map out a physical sequence with a distinct start, middle, and end. Next, we’ll translate muscle memory onto paper, repeatedly drawing our movements to capture the frames and the spaces "in between" until we achieve twelve fluid sketches on a custom grid sheet.

To wrap up, you'll learn how to scan or photograph your final page to compile it digitally into a looping GIF or movie, leaving the workshop with a finished piece of moving artwork

Please note that this is a strictly limited-capacity event, so secure your spot by registering via Eventbrite today.

Margaret Barry makes drawings, paintings and animations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work is motivated by curiosity about how conscious beings think, feel, learn, and experience one another. Barry’s comic, “Saint Spot Encounters the Macular Microfauna” is published in BOMB’s 2026 Summer issue.

The Infra-Ordinary with Lucy Ives

Aug. 15, 2026, 3–5 pm

AZ gallery, 306 Maujer

Could you create a clock or calendar using only household objects? What rich materials are present in your nightly dreams? When was the last time you thought about a magical belief you possessed as a child? Can you describe something you’ve completely forgotten? Participants will answer these questions and more in a relaxing 120-minute workshop for generating ideas, refreshing our memories, dissolving creative block, and engaging in imaginative self-reflection, all using the most basic materials we possess: our thoughts, memories, and ties to our neighbors and immediate surroundings. Taking inspiration from novelist Georges Perec’s notion of the “infra-ordinary,” or the multifarious and extraordinarily subtle aesthetic reverberations of the everyday, novelist Lucy Ives will convene an occasion for writing together based on her new collection, three six five: prompts, acts, divinations, published by Siglio Press.

You will leave this gathering with several short-written pieces, more than a few recovered memories, and many, many new ideas. All are welcome—long-time writers, beginners, visual artists, philosophers, seekers, gardeners, gleaners, menders, makers, and anyone who enjoys being surprised.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own writing materials but additional stationary will be provided.

Please note that this is a strictly limited-capacity event, so secure your spot today by registering via Eventbrite today.

Lucy Ives is a novelist and critic. Her most recent book is three six five: prompts, acts, divinations (an inexhaustible compendium for writing), a year’s worth of creative and philosophical exercises, published by Siglio Press. She received the Vermont Book Award in Creative Nonfiction and an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and is a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction. She was interviewed in BOMB’s Fall 2017 issue.

Participating presses:

53rd State Press, A Public Space, Archipelago Books, The Anarchist Review of Books, The Baffler, Birds LLC, Black Sun Lit, Burnaway, Bungee Space/Ten Books, Changes Press, Common Notions Press, Community Access Art Collective, Crop Circle Press, FAWW Gallery, Genderfail, Jewish Currents, Khajistan Press, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Makan, Mandylion Press, McPherson and Company, Montez Press, n+1, New Poetics Publishing, Nightboat Books, OR Books, The Poetry Corp., Poets & Traitors Publishing Cooperative, Seaton Street, Seven Stories Press, Superblooom*, Tiny Cutlery, Turtle Point Press, Ugly Duckling Presse, Under the BQE, Verso Books, Wendy’s Subway, Wonder