Conway Hall Red Lion Square WC1R 4RL
Saturday 14th Sept 2024
Free Entry 10am – 4pm
Gala show Host Joelle Taylor
7pm Tea House Theatre
139 Vauxhall Walk SE11 5HL
This is a fantastic celebration of diversity,
of voices and stories.. It’s an inspiration to see so many,
different cultures and perspectives represented on the shelves.
Main Hall over 50 Publishers and Booksellers
All day readings and talks in the Brockway Room with host Joelle Taylor
Multicultural Book Fair 2024
Gala Show 7pm host Joelle Taylor
Tea House Theatre 139 Vauxhall Walk SE11 5HL
Gala Show – 7pm
Publishers and Booksellers
The Poetry Society
PNR
Arachne Press
Sidekick Books
Smokestack Books
Peepal Tree Press
Ignition Press
Black Spring Press Group
IF P Then Q
Polari Press
Allardyce, Barnett, Publishers
Paekakariki press
Cheerio Publishing
Power Mouth
Assemblage Collective
Rebecca Ronane
Pushkin House Bookshop
Colossive Press
Neem Tree Press
Weathergrass Books
Jacaranda Books
Goat Star Books
Claudia Cadette
Assorted Translations
Out Spoken Press
A.B
Palewell Press
If a Leaf Falls Press
Lolli Edition
Sinoist Books
Jasmine Kahlia
Tosin Akomolafe
Boukman Academy
Etruscan Books
Cckriolas Publishers
Peter’s Bookshop
Poetry Translation Centre
David Lee Morgan
Prototype Press
Henningham Family Press
Shearsman Books
Aurora Metro Books
Romancero Books
Canary Ryland
London Poets
London Poetry Life
Scratch Books
Renard Press
Kurious K Agubam Production
Istros Books
Heloise Press
Osmosis Press
Liz Amos
Olivia Hurton
The House of Harley
Books
Meet Us and Eat US
Buthcher’s Dog
Agenda Poetry
StuffLikeThat books
The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society was founded in 1909 to promote ‘a more general recognition and appreciation of poetry’. Since then, it has grown into one of Britain’s most dynamic arts organisations, representing poetry both nationally and internationally. Today it has more than 5,000 members worldwide and publishes the UK’s leading poetry magazine, The Poetry Review, edited by Wayne Holloway-Smith.
The Poetry Society
Poetry Translation Centre
Poetry Translation Centre gives the best contemporary poems from Africa, Asia and Latin America a new life in English, working with diaspora communities for whom poetry is of great importance. Our World Poet Series of dual-language books showcases major international poets including Najwan Darwish, Mona Kareem, Yu Yoyo, Mohan Rana, Diana Bellessi, Víctor Terán, Karin Karakaşlı and Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi.
Sidekick Books
Sidekick Books is a small press based in London / Cambridge, specialising in multi-authored works that mix, meddle and amalgamate. We specialise in collaborative books, blending poems, essays and visual art to create fantastic new mutants. Our latest series, Ten Poets, sends four groups of poets undercover to plunder the genres of monster movies, ghost stories, detective fiction and historical erotica.
Sidekicke Books
Instagram / Threads: @sidekickbooks
Meet Us and Eat Us
Meet Us and Eat Us: Food plants from around the world celebrates biodiversity
through poetry, prose, and fine art photography.
Giving plants voice and agency, it introduces their family relationships, history
of use, geographical origin, cultural and mythological significance, and
their journeys to reach our plates. Readers across a wide age range can
enjoy this playful and scientifically rigorous hardback.
Istros Books
Istros Books was set up in 2011 in order to publish and promote literature in translation from Central and SE Europe. In its short history, it has managed to prove itself at the forefront of discovering and promoting exciting new works, ranging from essays and flash fiction to historical novels. We are proud to continue our commitment to bringing out fresh and exciting works in English translation, and to develop our cross-border publishing partnerships. Good literature knows no borders.
Etruscan Books
Etruscan Books was founded in 1996 by poet Nicholas Johnson, and published concrete, Gaelic & modernist poetry with an ear for the lyric & the made up word.
Our first publication was High West Rendezvous by Edward Dorn. Etruscan Books published poetry folios by Carlyle Reedy, Seán Rafferty, John Hall, Helen Macdonald, Bob Cobbing, B. Catling, Maggie O’Sullivan & The Metal Mountain by John Healy
Etruscan Books
etruscanpublishing@gmail.com
Books
BOOKS sells cheap secondhand books and new self-published zines and small press publications. Based in Peckham, SE15, it’s open Thursday to Sunday between 11am and 6pm.
Palewell Press
Palewell Press is an independent not-for-profit publisher based in and injustice. And we believe this world can be brought closer through publishing SW London and focused on Human Rights and Environment. We believe in building a sustainable world in which all share equally and are protected from abuse books by refugees and other marginalised groups, and by environmental writers.
The Black Spring Press
Founded July 25th, 1984, The Black Spring Press list has published literary classics and major figures, including Leonard Cohen, Orson Welles, Anaïs Nin, Momus, Carolyn Cassady, Charles Baudelaire, Nick Cave, and many more. Eyewear Publishing Ltd. joined up with Black Spring Press (with its imprint Dexter Haven) in 2019 to form a new Indie press group of cultural reach and quality.
Adam Temple was born in London. The eighties saw him accompany rock legend Screaming Lord Sutch; moonlight as a Tarzan singing telegram; spend a year serenading the Marbella jet set, and accept a residency in Wichita, Kansas! He made several appearances in Strike it Rich, a BBC TV drama. In 2013 Rogers wrote ‘The Adam Temple Show’ and ‘Football Fandango.’ Broadcast from his flat, the Orange Bunker, these episodic internet musical comedies featured several accomplished actors and performers. His debut novel, ‘Everybody Do What You’re Doing,’ was completed during the pandemic lockdowns. Continuing to write and perform, Adam lives in Maida Vale, West London.
Please note, Mr Temple was born in London and partly of African heritage.
The House of Harley
The House of Harley has been publishing comics and art books for free-thinking grownups since the 1980s. Our annual anthology Ugly Mug features ‘comics to amuse and confuse’ by top talents from the British small press scene plus comics-adjacent creatives from Latvia, Brazil, Australia and the United States. Thrill your eyeballs with twice-weekly highlights from Harley’s sketchbooks at
Boukman Academy
Boukman Academy is a pan-African organisation specialising in revolutionary education. They have an online school with lessons that focus on Black history, political science, liberation philosophy, psychology and sociology. They also have a range of books on Black history and politics, and other learning materials, which can all be found at
Boukman Academy
Romancero Books
Romancero Books CIC is an online bookstore and a cultural platform based in London. We sell literature from Spain and the Latin American countries.
Working with selected large and small publishers, we bring together a remarkable collection of books, including short stories and pocketbooks. Our catalogue covers themes such as Lorca, female writers from Generación del 27, writers in exile and diaspora, and new LGBTQ+ voices.
Dyone Antonette
Dyonne Antonette Josiah is an award-winning, Self-published author from Islington, North London.
On the 7th of February 2024, she won her first Children’s book award With The Golden Wizard prize.
On the 30th of October 2022, her first book called ” How Do You Get A Baby?” was launched. A chapter book for children ages 5-8 years old, this is the first title in this series in “The Adventures of Canary Ryland”.
Allardyce, Barnett, Publishers / Snow lit rev
Biographies of African American musicians, in particular violinist-related, and associated AB Fable CDs; poetry and prose, including translations; and the multi-cultural literature, arts and music review Snow lit rev — further info at http://www.abar.net and http://www.abar.net/snow.pdfand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Barnett_(poet) and https://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=11164
Aurora Metro Books
Aurora Metro Books is a diverse, award-winning indie publisher of fiction, non-fiction and
drama established 30+ years. 300 books in print, the focus is on feminist, LGBTQI+ and
POC authors with works in translation from 20+ languages. Based at Books on the Rise in
Richmond you can visit us and browse our books, or join the mailing list at
www.aurorametro.com
Lolli Edition
Lolli Editions is an award-winning independent publisher based at Somerset House in London. We publish radical and formally innovative fiction in translation that challenges existing ideas and breathes new life into the novel form. Our aim is to introduce to the Anglophone world some of the most exciting writers that speak to our shared culture in new and compelling ways, from Europe and beyond.
Olivia Hurton
The Separation Ceremony is the debut poetry collection of Olivia Hurton, writer, actress and academic at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Written over ten years, the book explores youthful experience, love, loss, nature and corruption. From tragic love stories and lush reimaginings of classical mythology, to sun-drenched vignettes of student life and gothic elegies, these poetic stories transport you heart-first into a world of rogues and romantics.
The Separation Ceremony Paperback
Out Spoken
Press.
Out-Spoken Press is a London-based independent publisher of poetry and critical writing, founded by poet Anthony Anaxagorou with the aim of challenging a lack of diversity in poetry publishing. Shortlisted for the British Book Awards’ Small Publisher of the Year in 2024, Out-Spoken Press titles have won or been shortlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Rathbones Folio Prize and Forward Prizes.
Sinoist Books
Sinoist Books is an Arts Council England Funded West Sussex-based independent press that publishes only the best in translated Chinese literature and contemporary fiction. Our mission is to act as a bridge between the Chinese and English-speaking worlds so that the best Sinophone authors and their works can transcend the language barrier. We believe that literature is a summation of the struggles, aspirations and ideals of the authors, and only by appreciating them can we truly achieve a deeper level of understanding.
Sinoist Books
Buthcher’s Dog
Butcher’s Dog is a bi-annual poetry magazine founded and published in North East England. Independent and egalitarian, we print outstanding poems by diverse writers with distinctive voices from across the UK and ROI. From 2021 we also publish themed anthologies. Poetry magazine of the year (Saboteur Awards 2022 and 2023).
Paekariki Press
Paekakariki Press was established in 2010 as a repository for disappearing letterpress printing equipment. Today it finds itself a publisher of new poetry printed by traditional methods and looks to curate a collection of beautiful printed objects containing poetry and specially commissioned illustrations.
Liz Amos
Liz Amos writes book club fiction, poetry and essays about the beauty of stumbling
forwards.
‘All the Truths Between Us’ is her debut novel. The manuscript was longlisted for the SI
Leeds Literary Prize 2022 and described by Head Judge Kadija Sesay as “a very moving
story”.
Liz is Black British of Jamaican heritage and based in Southampton, UK.
Assorted Translations
A splendid selection of books hand-picked by Timothy
Adès: his own works, and much more, from many
publishers and languages… A unique Translated Poetry
Bookstall at Festivals and at Craft & Gift Markets.
Keen prices! Many with English and foreign text together,
many from publishers who don’t come to the Fair.
Timothy is on Facebook and YouTube.
www.timothyades.com
Heloise
Press
Héloïse Press is a small and independent publishing house specialised in contemporary and international literary fiction by women. We feature established and emerging authors, and publish books with women at the centre of the stories.
Claudia Cadette
‘Claudia was born in London and is of St Lucian parentage. Claudia’s debut novel ‘Spectrum of Colours’ is a story is told through the eyes of the central character Sophia, a 24-year-old woman who spends six weeks in a psychiatric hospital after suffering a declination in her mental health, as a result of a traumatic childhood event.’
Istros Books
Istros Books is an independent press focusing on the literature of Central and S E Europe. Publishing contemporary fiction and non-fiction as well as forgotten classics, we hope to provide a window onto this region and showcase the wonderful stories that arise from these rich, fascinating cultures. At Istros, we believe that good literature can transcend national interests and speak to us with the common voice of human experience, and we work with a magnificent array of translators from all over the world to bring out a small, select number of titles each year to delight and engage our readers.
Weatherglass Books
Weatherglass Books is a new independent press founded by Neil Griffiths
(novelist and founder of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses) and Damian Lanigan (novelist and playwright).
Weatherglass was founded on a shared love of Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower and a shared fear that it wouldn’t find a publisher today.
Goat Star Book
Goat Star Books is a UK-based publisher specialising in translations of poetry from and into English. It is a poetic project based on the idea that poets are the unrecognized legislators of the world, in the famous words of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Our vocation is to use the translation of poetry as a bridge of understanding between cultures, making known voices from both the present and the past.
Agenda Poetry
Agenda is among the most highly respected poetry journals. Started by Ezra Pound and William Cookson, it wasedited through its sixtieth year by Patricia McCarthy. Her successor John Burnside sadly died in May 2024, soon after being appointed. There are magazines, one-poet volumes (Agenda Editions), broadsheets, and online supplements. Agenda’s future is with the University of St Andrews.
Kurious K Agubom Production
Kurious K Agubom Production is a book publishing company based in Nigeria. We have published a number of books for great Authors in Africa and across Africa. We are first class in publishing and distribution of books worldwide.
Jacaranda Books
Jacaranda Books is an award-winning, Black-owned independent publisher of literary and genre fiction, and non-fiction. With our mission statement Bigger Than Books, we are dedicated to promoting and celebrating diverse storytelling in all forms, and to directly addressing the ongoing lack of inclusion in the book trade. We have an interest in writing from the perspective of the Global South, and are the publishers of the Twenty in 2020 and A Quick Ting On series’. Founded in 2012.
Renard Press
Renard Press is an award-winning independent press, and is one of the UK’s first climate-positive publishers. Covering both classic and contemporary titles, Renard publishes fiction and non-fiction, theatre and poetry; the emphasis is on good writing, properly edited, and our books can be found in convenient modern formats, as well as in beautifully designed and well-produced editions.
Renard Press
Scratch Books
Scratch Books are dedicated to the art of the short story. We publish innovative anthologies from celebrated authors like Tessa Hadley and Jon McGregor as well as critically-acclaimed single-author collections.
IF P THEN Q
if p then q is a small press publisher of experimental poetry edited by James Davies, founded in 2008. The press publishes important collections by ground-breaking poets such as P. Inman, Holly Pester and Tom Jenks; recent collections have included works by Peter Jaeger and Maggie O’Sullivan. The poetry published we publish is exciting and provides opportunities for deep thinking through play.
Neem Tree Press
Neem Tree Press is a London-based independent publisher of multicultural books that change and broaden perspectives. We collaborate with an eclectic group of British and international authors, illustrators, and designers. We were recently awarded an English PEN grant, a prestigious literary award for translated fiction, and we were shortlisted for the IPG’s Diversity and Inclusivity Award in 2023.
Colossive Press
Based in Penge, South London, Colossive Press publishes an eclectic and ever-expanding range of books, comics and zines. Titles include the critically acclaimed Colossive Cartographies series, street art and London photography books by the late, great Gordon Gibbens and A. Wolfgang Crowe’s graphic memoir Fractures, as well as zines about ghosts, grief, cats, football and Croydon Spaceport.
Pushkin House Bookshop
Pushkin House Bookshop is an independent bookshop in London specialising in culture, history, politics, literature and visual arts from Russia, the Soviet Union and Russian Empire. We work with publishers large and small to bring you the broadest range of titles: poetry and politics, cookbooks and children’s books, niche academic titles, limited-edition zines, and literature from across the region.
Polari Press
Taking their name from the secret gay slang Polari, popular in the mid-1900s, Polari Press is an independent publishing house that seeks out hidden voices and helps them be heard. Although Polari was spoken predominantly by gay and bisexual men, the nature of clandestine meetings of the era when homosexuality was still criminalised, brought together people from all walks of life who all had an influence on the language. Cockney, Romany, and Italian languages mixed with the colloquialisms of thespians, circus performers, wrestlers, sailors, and wider criminal communities to create a slang to express their sexuality secretly and safely. Inspired by these origins, they publish queer and marginalised voices, to share a diverse range of queer perspectives.
Polari Press
South London Books
We are very pleased to be invited to support Multicultural Book Fair and will be taking part in the Brockway Room with Publishers attending the fair, Steve Tasane, Keith Robert Bray, will be reading, representing South London Books
Joelle Tayor will be voice of William C Harris Publishing, reading and hosting Paper Tiger Poetry evening show.
Rebecca Ronane
Age does not need to define or limit you.
My book Forward After 50, The Rising Reinventors, is about how to reframe our mindsets around ageing.
It’s for women over forty who question, ‘What’s Next’?
After reading this book, you will realise that age is not an excuse to stop everything. It’s a place to start something new and exciting.
Rebecca Ronane
Forward After Fifty
Arachne Press
Arachnne Press is a small, independent publisher of award-winning poetry, short fiction, and novels for adults and children. Over the last twelve years we have published regular anthologies, and invited authors who impress us to submit collections or novels. We have a liking for fantasy, climate fiction and psychogeography!
Smokestack Books
Smokestack Books aims to keep open a space for what is left of the radical poetic tradition in the twenty-first century. Smokestack champions poets who are unfashionable, radical, left-field and working a long way from the metropolitan centres of cultural authority; believes that poetry is a part of and not apart from society; argues that if poetry does not belong to everyone it is not poetry.
Peepal Tree Press
Peepal Tree Press is an independent publisher of Caribbean and Black British writing. Founded in 1985, it publishes around 15 books a year and has released over 400 titles. Prize highlights include the Costa Novel and Book of the Year Awards for The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey and the T.S. Eliot Prize, for Roger Robinson’s A Portable Paradise.
ignitionpress
Established in 2017 and based at Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, ignitionpress is an award-winning poetry pamphlet press with an international outlook which publishes original, arresting poetry from emerging poets.
Five of our pamphlets have been Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice selections, with three shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award. ignitionpress won the Michael Marks Publishers’ Award in 2021. We’re on Twitter/X, Facebook, and Instagram: @brookespoetry
Allardyce, Barnett, Publishers
Allardyce, Barnett, Publishers / Snow lit rev
Biographies of African American musicians, in particular violinist-related, and associated AB Fable CDs; poetry and prose, including translations; and the multi-cultural literature, arts and music review Snow lit rev — further info at http://www.abar.net and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Barnett_(poet) and https://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=11164
Jasmine Kahlia
Jasmine Kahlia is an Acclaimed Audiovisual Artist, with work showcased regionally in the UK, and internationally in Spain, Germany and USA.Jasmine works across around 19 different artforms to bring their work to life.These include: Film-making, Music Production and Sound Design, Illustration, Creative Writing, Prose and Poetry, Textile Work and much more
Glena Oyiadjo
Author and life speaker Glena showcases her self help motivational…
Shearsman Books
Shearsman Books is an independent publisher of poetry based in Oxfordshire, issuing up to 50 titles per annum. The press publishes a magazine, books by writers from around the world, and has the largest poetry translation list in the country.
Osmosis Press
Osmosis Press was established in early 2021 with an aim to muddy the boundaries between categorisations of contemporary writing practice. We publish work that resists the definition of poetry, novel, short story, non-fiction, memoir, and everything in-between. We publish poetry that does not map onto the expectations of what poetry can be. We publish fiction that reconsiders the possibilities of prose – or resists prose entirely. We believe non-fiction can take any form.
Prototye Press
Prototype is a publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies and interdisciplinary projects. With an emphasis on producing unique and beautiful books, we are committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature. Through the discovery of high quality work across genres, Prototype strives to increase audiences for experimental writing, as the home for writers and artists whose work requires a creative vision not offered by mainstream literary publis
The Poetry Translation Centre’s
The Poetry Translation Centre’s World Poet Series has made available to an English audience some of the most exciting contemporary voices from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. In addition to bringing out newly commissioned translations each year, the series includes reissued classic chapbooks from the PTC’s back-catalogue in expanded editions and with new translations.
David Lee Morgan
My friend, Jason Why, of South London Poetry books has organised a MultiCulture Book fair at the ever-cool Conway Hall for Saturday, Sept 14, 2024.
Tables are cheap and a great way to promote your publications – and support a vibrant spoken word poetry scene. (cc’d Jason so you can contact him directly).
I’m taking out a full table for my new publishing enterprise, Bidrohi Books, but would gladly share the table with any of you.
StuffLikeThat books
StuffLikeThat books is a craft publishing venture creating handmade books with cover designs using woodcut, linocut, stencil, digitized images and hand-type, in a style that references early children’s books, historical pamphlets, and zines. Our initiating principle is that reading should be a pleasurable experience. SLT publishes short stories, poetry, essays, and publications fundraising for charity.
Tosin Akomolafe
Tosin Akomolafe is the author of Father-Time Continuum; his debut novel. The book is a coming-of-age story about a boy, who learns what it means to become a father from his Grandfather, Father, Stepfather, and Uncle until he becomes a father. It is a book that celebrates Black fatherhood, while never shying away from difficult conversations.
Tosin Akomolafe
❧ If a Leaf Falls Press
❧ If a Leaf Falls Press publishes limited-edition titles with an emphasis on appropriative and procedural writing processes. Edited by Sam Riviere, with design by O. Tong. Founded in 2015, If a Leaf Falls has published over 100 titles to date, and will be publishing full-length collections for the first time in 2024.