Bad Saturn Media

09/06/2025

Artists: Bad Saturn is seeking coloring book concepts that refuse polite neutrality and instead offer emboldening, artist-led encounters with grief, pleasure, resistance, or radical imagination. If your work centers voices and lived experiences that mainstream publishing still sidelines, we want to read it.

Bad Saturn is building a constellation of coloring books that treat the page as a site of revolutionary care. Please share with any artists whose work aligns.

Reading period closes June 30th.

Submit here: https://forms.gle/Sou9ESAKsvcApi2WA

18/04/2025

🕊️ Between a Frame and a Soft Place Zine is now available for wider release.

Hand-bound with waxed linen thread and a vellum cover, this 44-page zine extends the 2025 exhibition at Millennium Film Workshop into the hands of readers — an intimate collection of writing and art exploring digital distortion, grief, and the quiet violence of being seen.

Edited by Michèle Saint-Michel and published by Bad Saturn Media, the zine features 24 contributors whose work lingers between touch and transmission:
Alexandra Mauriello, Andrea Hackl, Anton Lushankin, Christina Bauernfeind, Clara Chacón, Collette Rayner, Fran Hayes, Gabriela Milkova Robins, Gel Press, Ginny Darke, indexthumb, Jamie Yuan, Kevin Chen, Lauren Dana Smith, Maike Helbig, Matt McKinzie, Olivia Burgess, Rachel Sun E., Riley Tu, Riverstone, Vincent Katz, Zara Joan Miller.

🖤 $14 hand-numbered print edition
💻 Digital download: pay-what-you-can (suggested $5)

04/02/2025

Now accepting poetry, short prose, and art for a Zine to be published for an April exhibition in New York. Between a Frame and a Soft Place is an exhibition featuring members of the London-based Digital Bodies Collective and other New York artists. Deadline February 28th. Details at the link.

23/09/2024

To the generation that coined the term "situationship" 💔 Ontology of Us was written to accompany a returned vinyl record after a breakup. The longing in the voice and poetry in this track will take you right back to your last heartbreak. Brutally honest and devastatingly beautiful, Saint-Michel gets lost in love in Peckham and reminds us that true heartache leaves our heads full of questions and our hearts restless in our hands.

We're happy to announce the release of Ontology of Us by Michèle Saint-Michel! OUT NOW on Spotify, Apple Music and more palatable streaming platforms! Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5g0NWqWpuucoVzrA8dk8g7?si=sZhdQh7GSzWUj8AsVkwCPA

From Michèle: "Happy to share my first album coming in 2025! As a big time Daniel Johnston fan, I’m thrilled to be working with his longtime producer and collaborator, KRAMER along with his label Shimmy-Disc. When I move to NYC this fall we’ll be expanding this new audio work “Ontology of Us” into a full experimental album—and I couldn’t be more excited for you all to experience this journey with me."

[Slide 1: Ontology of Us Album Cover. on an apricot background partially obscured in tangerine clouds. Slide 2: Situation Ship by Anja Kuzmic ]

10/01/2024

Big book news! 📚 The Story Collective is now your one-stop-shop for all things Michèle Saint-Michel! From creative explorations of grief to contemporary poetry that speaks to the soul, and even beautifully crafted journals featuring locally pressed flowers – there's something for everyone in Michèle Saint-Michel’s literary world.

Plan your visit:
📅 Tue-Thu: 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM
📅 Fri-Sat: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
🚫 Closed Sundays & Mondays

📍 Downtown St. Joseph, MO
📍 114 South 7th Street (beside Long Boards)

Embark on a reading journey in 2024 with The Story Collective and Michèle Saint-Michel's compelling works. 📖🌌 See you at there!

01/01/2024

Wishing all our readers and listeners a 2024 filled with un-put-downable reads, albums on repeat, and a fresh journal for all your hopes and revolutionary dreams. Happy New Year!

13/12/2023

Positive reviews mean the world 📚🌲

04/12/2023

You can make a difference. Shop small this year. Include small presses and independent booksellers. Support artists and musicians by sharing their work. It’s down to you!

25/11/2023

One third of bookstore sales happen between now and the end of the year! Please order your holiday book gifts from a local independent bookstore. In person and online. It literally keeps their doors open. If you don’t have a favorite, books ship free at bookshop.org all weekend and they send their proceeds to the bookshop closest to you! https://bookshop.org/shop/badsaturn

24/11/2023

It's Black Friday! Add a few Bad Saturn releases to your Amazon order. Our journals make the perfect gift for the hard-to-shop-for on your list

Journeywork of the Stars: A Dotted Journal

05/10/2023

“Someone reading a book is a sign of order in the world,” wrote the poet Mary Ruefle. At Bad Saturn, we believe in the power of literature and art to bring order and care to the world. Mary Ruefle's words resonate deeply with our mission. Every reader is a testament to the order that comes from understanding and empathy.

Our commitment to thought-provoking art books and albums goes hand in hand with our mission. Through these creations, we aim to amplify the voices of underrepresented authors and artists, fostering a platform for their stories to be heard.

Delving into challenging subjects like grief and trauma, we strive to bring attention to important issues, sparking meaningful dialogues that lead to positive action. Thank you for being a part of the Bad Saturn community. Your support fuels our mission to inspire thought, conversation, and positive change. Together, let's continue creating a more care-full world.