About

Since 2015, Bookspace has been a bookseller whose main aims are to spread awareness through the Columbus, Ohio area through self-education, self-empowerment, and community involvement. Bookspace has distributed quality books and zines via flea markets, poetry readings, and other events throughout Columbus. The ultimate goal is to occupy a full-sized shop of Bookspace's own, to distribute many more books, zines, and art, but also to host community-building events such as readings, shows, skill-sharing workshops, art exhibitions, and other educational events/performances.

 

For ten months in 2019 I ran a bookshop every Friday at ILLIO in Clintonville. It was a wonderful experiment and it gave me the chance to meet many new people and provide them with quality books. I miss running a physical shop, but I learned a ton, which I will carry with me into the future.

I started Bookspace because I wanted to get good books into people's hands and minds. Books are like anything else, in that some are more worthwhile than others. I am interested in those that give us a more clear understanding of ourselves, our world, and our place in it. Toward this end, I have tried to curate a selection of books that educate and motivate toward wholeness.

 

Bookspace has existed in many incarnations; I have always tried to tap into whatever was possible given the particular moment. It has been a stall at many, many flea markets around Columbus (and beyond). It was a tiny shop within a shared workspace in German Village for three months. It was a larger shop open weekly at a gallery space in Clintonville for almost a year from 2019-2020. In the pandemic years it was been an online shop with an expanding selection of new books and zines.

From 2022 to 2026, Bookspace occupied the lobby of Flux Flow Dance & Movement Center, a queer-owned dance studio in Clintonville.

We are currently moving to our new permanent location within the Center for Print and Collaborative Arts, at 705 Ann St. Stay tuned for updates!

Thanks for visiting,
Charlie