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The cover of Typewriter Games: two red ribbon spools joined by a red line, two black spools joined by a black line, and a yellow spool trailing off the edge on its own.

Typewriter Games

an analog activity book
and field guide to the page

Forthcoming from Spacebar Press

A book of writing exercises for the manual typewriter to try on your own or with a room full of friends and strangers.

It’s part activity book, part artist’s book, and part field guide to literature’s stranger experiments. The games are derived from Olson’s projective verse and concrete poetry, from the Oulipo and Queneau, from the Surrealists, and from nearly a century of freewriting teachers, as a way of reclaiming creative sovereignty.

Typewriter Social

Many of these games were worked out at Typewriter Social, a table of vintage typewriters that turns up at bars, galleries, block parties, and library branches around Austin, plus a monthly session online. Join us for an upcoming session!

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Hands typing on a vintage typewriter
The Love Letter, June 9
A freshly typed page
Write Together at the Typewriter Table, May 16
Stephen writing on a vintage typewriter
The Love Letter, May 26

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About the press

Spacebar Press is managed by Stephen Lloyd Webber. The press publishes books on the creative process, alongside Stephen’s fiction and prose poetry. More about him at stephenlloydwebber.com.