Multicultural Book Fair
Conway Hall Red Lion Square WC1R 4RL
Saturday 14th Sept 2024
Free Entry 10 am – 4 pm
This book fair 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.
All day reading and Talks the Brockway Room
Evening event hosted by Joelle Taylor
Tea House Theatre SE11 5HL
Gala Show – 7pm
Publishers and Booksellers
PNR
Arachne Press
Sidekick Books
Smokestack Books
Peepal Tree Press
Ignition Press
Black Spring Press Group
IF P Then Q
Tall.Lighthouse
Polari Press
Room and books
Allardyce, Barnett, Publishers
Paekakariki press
Cheerio Publishing
Power Mouth
Assemblage Collective
Rebecca Ronane
Pushkin House Bookshop
Colossive Press
Neem Tree Press
Weatherglass Book
Jacaranda Books
Goat Star Books
Jasmine Kahlia
Tosin Akomolafe
Elida Silvey
Boukman Academy
Etrusscam Press
Cckriolas Publishers
Peter’s Bookshop
The Poetry Translation Centre
David Lee Morgan
Prototype Press
Henningham Family Press
ZIMZALLA
Shearsman Books
Aurora Metro Books
Romancer Books
David Simon
Canary Ryland
London Poets
London Poetry Life
Scratch Books
Kurious K Agubom Production
Renard Press
Istros Books
Free Tickets
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.
Goat Star Books
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.
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.
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.
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, Hannah Stanislaus, 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.
Ignition Press is based at the Oxford Brookes Poetry CentreSchool of Education, Humanities, and Languages, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Tonge Building, OX3 0BP
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.
Prototye
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.
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