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Renegade Bookbinding Guild 501c3 Announcement

The Renegade Bookbinding Guild is proud to announce we are officially a 501c3 educational nonprofit! This is a significant and exciting milestone for Renegade! Renegade’s official non-profit status allows us to support the growth of our various events as they become more money and resource intensive. Renegade's focus as a nonprofit is on building community, providing education, and promoting preservation of written works.

To read more about this very exciting announcement, information is on the Renegade Bookbinding Guild website, along with details about the updates to guild membership.

501c3 Status Update

Renegade Bookbinding Guild's current board can be viewed at the link below.

The Board

Renegade can now receive tax-deductible donations!

Donate Here

Renegade will NOT move any resources behind a membership "paywall" or in any way limit current or future resources in the Renegade Bindery Discord server.

Renegade is currently recruiting volunteers to assist in the Binderary Mods & Website Designers roles, among others!

Volunteer Applications

We also have a new logo! Thank you to @starblightbindery and @runawaymarbles for their respective work in how our logos have developed over the years.

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Binderary 2026

Whether you are new to the world of bookbinding, or an aged veteran, join us for a month of binding fun! This event is all about community and learning, be it trying something new or refining existing skills.

No Registration Required! Simply attend any or all of these workshops at your leisure.

All workshops will be hosted on Zoom. Zoom links will be provided in the Renegade Discord. A discord link is provided on the about page of our website.

Week One: Sunday Feb 1st - Saturday Feb 7th

Week Two: Sunday Feb 8th - Saturday Feb 14th

Week Three: Sunday Feb 15th - Saturday Feb 21st

Week Four: Sunday Feb 22nd - Saturday Feb 28th

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Binderary 2026: Week Two

If you'd like to join us for Binderary, please join our Discord Server.

All our workshops are run by members of our fanbinding community, and some of them are even on Tumblr!

Here’s the list of who’s running the week 2 workshops:

Endpages Revealed: An Undercover Exposé: @silentsunpress Simple Scribus Typesetting (With Scripts!): @notwhelmedyet Typesetting in One Click: Microsoft Word Macros 101: owl_winter Hinge Maths (And Other Bookbinding Maths): queercus Medieval Manuscripts: Past and Present: kwrites & @imaginariumpress

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Binderary 2026: Week Three

If you'd like to join us for Binderary, please join our Discord Server.

All our workshops are run by members of our fanbinding community, and some of them are even on Tumblr!

Here’s the list of who’s running the week 3 workshops:

Marbling: Controlling the Variables: @dcbrierton Designing a Book in Affinity 3 (Advanced): @kate2kat Cheater's Guide to Traditional Edge Gilding: rainchaser Linocut Logos: @aetherseer

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Binderary 2026: Week Four

If you’d like to join us for Binderary, please join our Discord Server.

All our workshops are run by members of our fanbinding community, and some of them are even on Tumblr!

Here’s the list of who’s running the week 4 workshops:

Junk Drawer Bookbinding: @sayornispress Renegade Round-Up 2025: @fanboundbooks, @robins-egg-bindery & @celestial-sphere-press Shrink Ray Bindery: Customizing Book Nooks: @starblightbindery Designing a Book in Affinity 3 (Beginner Encore): @kate2kat Mini Bind Along: Altered Art Edition: @simply-sithel

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Renegade Bookbinding Guild

Renegade Bookbinding Guild is a not-for-profit group of artists engaged in fanbinding—focusing on extremely limited edition fannish works, including fanfiction, meta, original fic, zines and other works. Most works are made in handmade editions of one or two copies. We are a transformative community connected by shared values, goals, work, and stories. We value fanfiction and fanwork in all its forms, and our fannish culture’s infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

Members work self-directed, selecting works to bind individually. We are building a physical archive book by book, zine by zine, pamphlet by pamphlet, collected on our shelves, gifted to the author, exchanged as gifts among each other or given to friends.

Members of Renegade Bookbinding Guild agree to our Code of Conduct, which upholds the values of our community and can be accessed here.

@armoredsuperheavy started fanbinding independently in 2018. After their guerrilla bookbinding manifestos went viral in 2020, they created the fanbinding Discord server. So began the Renegade Bindery, our digital workshop and community space.

Renegade Bindery is on Discord, if you would like to join please check out the invite on our website. It is 18+ only, and it is not required to be a member of the Guild to participate in the discord.

Our site is maintained by volunteers of the Renegade Bookbinding Guild. The Guild was first established as Renegade Publishing August 17th, 2020, and we updated our name to the Renegade Bookbinding Guild on February 2, 2024.

For more ways to follow Renegade, visit our website.

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Binderary 2025: Week 2

In the Renegade Bindery Discord Server, we are once again running Binderary during the month of February. Attendance is free, and a link to the 18+ Discord Server can be found on our website.

Whether you’re new to the world of bookbinding or an aged veteran, join us for a month of binding fun! This event is all about community & learning, be it trying something new or refining existing skills.

All our workshops are run by members of our fanbinding community, and some of them are even on Tumblr!

Here’s the list of who’s running the week 2 workshops:

All About Bookplates: @silentsunpress Typesetting in LaTeX: @queercus-books VI: Villainous Imposer: @simply-sithel Typesetting in Affinity: @kate2kat Typesetting in One Click: Microsoft Word Macros 101: @owlwinter8 Bookbinding Craft Along 2: Noodle Cutouts and Cover Board Fun: @celestial-sphere-press & @pleasantboatpress Italian Paper Case Bind Pt. 1: Eka InDesign for Beginners: @misanthropiczombie The "Single Section Conservation Binding" as a Beginners First Binding: Experience, Variations and Ideas: minx Decorative Papers: Triple Threat: @starblightbindery, @duran-binding & @mourningmountainsbindery

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Binderary 2025: Week 1

In the Renegade Bindery Discord Server, we are once again running Binderary during the month of February. Attendance is free, and a link to the 18+ Discord Server can be found on our website.

Whether you’re new to the world of bookbinding or an aged veteran, join us for a month of binding fun! This event is all about community & learning, be it trying something new or refining existing skills.

All our workshops are run by members of our fanbinding community, and some of them are even on Tumblr!

Here’s the list of who’s running the week 1 workshops:

Specialized Typesetting in LaTeX: Celandine My Immortal and the History of Fan Studies: Parsley Typesetting in Google Docs: @sayornispress Introduction to Typography and Typesetting: @bearclubbooks Renegade Round-Up 2024!: @fanboundbooks, @robins-egg-bindery & @celestial-sphere-press You Shouldn't Have to Pay for that: Making Your Typesets Pretty For Free: @daemonluna Bookbinding Craft Along 1: Noodle