World Book Night 2024 – In Praise of Birds

WBN United Artists invite you to read and respond to a text or book about birds.

The call to artists, writers, readers and makers around the world launches this September 2023. We invite you to make a postcard inspired by birds to send for an exhibition and mail art swap.

You can make a text or image (or both) contribution, postcards should be no larger than 16 x 11 cm.

Please email details of the text you are inspired by to compile a collaborative bibliography between all participants. For example: ‘“Hope” is the thing with feathers’, from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by R. W. Franklin, Harvard University Press, 1999.

Please also supply your postal address and IG / Twitter info if you wish. All artworks will be featured in an online gallery and shared publicly.

All postcards will be swapped so you will receive another artist’s card in return plus an extra gift from WBN2024.

Deadline 1st March 2024 but you can hand in as early as you want to.

Download the full brief here. Find out more about our past World Book Nights in the video ‘What We Do in the Shadows: bringing book arts into World Book Night’ here.

Image: Left: detail from Imagined Four-Eyed Jay by Roelof Bakker. Right: Rubber stamps cut by Stephen Fowler