Let me introduce myself.
My name is Emily Conklin (@conk_shell ), I’m the creative director of Tiny Cutlery. We are a book design studio and editorial consultancy based in Manhattan.
Our scope includes all aspects of the publishing process, from design to proofreading. We help creatives of all kinds envision their next project and bring it to reality.
Say hi at [email protected]
SEASON 03
PRINT EDITION LAUNCH
Starters is back in print — the same but a little different
Come experience the new design and immersive multimedia readings for yourself, with a martini in hand
When: Thursday, June 11
Time: Doors 7pm; Readings at 8pm
Where: Rodeo (1134 President Street BK)
RSVP and a special preorder discount at link in bio ;)
CLOSED: SEASON 03
Our Spring ‘26 season of Starters has come to a close. Thank you for reading, subscribing, and supporting our gorgeous gorgeous contributors to this issue❤️ including our first ever collaborative photo/crit essay — a format we’re welcoming into the permanent collection
GIVE IT UP FOR S03 MASTHEAD —
Peter Walhout: STONE SONG
Jean Pflum: THE BOTTLE KEES THE SCORE
Jocelyn Beausire: OUR LAND IS DIGGERLAND
Mariam Arwa: RSVP
Gene Han & Emily Conklin: YOUR HOUSE/A MUSEUM OF ONE’S OWN
Next step: Launch party 💃🏼 date/location to be released first to subscribers 👀
YOUR OWN HOUSE / A MUSEUM OF ONE’S OWN
Starters Season 03
A conversation between Emily Conklin (@conk_shell ) and the photography of Gene Han (@genehan )
This collaborative Starter debuts our interest in photographic storytelling and its tethers to and between design and literature. Starting with a prompt from Virginia Woolf’s ORLANDO, Han revisits his parents’ home in Philadelphia — the resulting photos are on the knife’s edge between familiarity and not.
See the diptych and conversation in full at the link in bio
RSVP by Mariam Arwa (@mariam.arwa )
This Starter is a sneak peek: a snippet of a longer work to come via Tiny Cutlery that interweaves letter writing (emails), the working through of theory and architecture, and the glittering worlds we can build with fiction.
RSVP starts in 2037 and looks back at a symposium being planned in your honor, after your death, by the people who hated you the most.
Read the entire piece at the link in bio, and by subscribing to Starters Mag
STARTERS 3.3
“Our Land is Diggerland”
By Jocelyn Beausire (@jossslug )
Beausire visits America’s construction-themed amusement park in Jersey off-season as snow covers the ground and the Christmas lights linger on the shovels and seats of JBL extractors. These are for children to role play as America’s construction workers.
Invoking Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, Beausire’s words, photography, and photogrammetry take us further and further from relation, seeing extraction all at once as pure spectacle.
Read the entire essay for Starters Season 03 at the link in bio
2.26.2026
Thank you ALL for coming to celebrate the launch of Starters 02 in print —
Every time Tiny Cutlery hosts, a whole group of folks who have never been in a room together meet. I can’t ever take this community and this joyful ability to gather over words, ideas, and design for granted.
A huge shoutout to Rodeo for being the most spectacular venue, to each of our readers for sharing the work either at the party or between the pages, and to every subscriber, mag purchaser, and supporter we have in this community.
I hope to see you all next time, too :)
Xx TC
THURSDAY 2/26
STARTERS 02
RODEO
Our beautiful print edition enveloped in Tiny Cutlery’s custom red hue are here and ready to come home with you on after Thursday’s launch party.
Come celebrate the issue, our contributors, and Emily’s birthday with us — RSVP at the link in bio
THE BOTTLE KEEPS THE SCORE
By Jean Pflum (@lava_lamp_princess )
Jean writes about perfume and its immutable ability to aid expression. When it’s unsafe to be yourself, scent can be a quite yet powerful tool; and the design intent behind each bottle is its own radical act.
Pflum speaks to perfumers, visits scent expos, and collects dust.
Starters Season 3, episode 2❤️
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