The Green Room
Friday 24 October

Introduced by poet Simon Tyrrell

2.00pm—Weproductions
Helen Douglas on MEETING POINT Within the Lewisian made with Jake Harvey.

2.30pm—Pilot Press
Launch of Practicing Dying by Charlotte Northall, a memoir on addiction and capitalism.

3.00pm—Uniformbooks 
John Bevis on his book A Surrey Naturalist.

3.30pm—Fly on the Wall Press
Readings: Amy Lilwall from The Water that May Come and John Ironmonger from The Wager and the Bear.

4.00pm—Negative Press London
Launch of everything is so very much connected by Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman with  Rachel Smith and Declan Wiffen.

4.30pm—The New Menard Press
Launch of Shira Wolfe’s Jugoslovenska Kinoteka. Wolfe reads from this bilingual (English/Serbian) poetry collection, translated with Marko Mladenovic.

SPECIAL EVENT: REMEMBERING MARK PAWSON 1965-2025

Small Publishers Fair will remember and celebrate Mark Pawson with a special event on the Friday afternoon.

5.30 to 7pm—Badge making
Mark’s friend, artist and printmaker Christina Lamb, will lead a badge-making session in Mark’s name. Come and make a badge!

Read more about Mark here.

Saturday 25 October

2.00pm to 5.00pm
Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre
Readings from students and graduates from the MA in Poetic Practice and the practice-based PhD programme at the Poetics Research Centre, Royal Holloway.

The Library
Saturday 25 October

Introduced by Angie Butler, artist printer and researcher

12.30pm—Guillemot Press
Poet, Susie Campbell reads from her debut collection Wastelands.

1.00pm—AMBruno
Performances and talks relating to the 2025/6 book arts project Finale. Karen Blake, Susan Johanknecht and Katharine Meynell, Ximena Pérez Grobet, and Cally Trench.

1.30pm—Sylph Editions
Artist, Whitney McVeigh discusses her book Paths Converge with Angie Butler.

2.00pm—Erica Van Horn
Erica Van Horn discusses her work with Dr Julie Bates, Trinity College Dublin.

2.30pm Break

3.00pm—MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE
and Tenement Press
Louise O’Hare reads from CENTREFOLD 1974, A MEMOIR and Sharon Kivland from Envois.

3.30pm—SJ Fowler and
Writers Kingston
Launch of Fowler’s Photo Poetry Postcards and A Zed and two 0s, both by Sampson Low Ltd. Plus poetry readings from students and graduates.

4pm—Dare-Gale Press
Poetry readings; David Harsent from The Wound and Martyn Crucefix from Walking Away.

4.30pm—BadbloodandSibyl and Swedenborg House
Readings: Andrew Kotting from BLABBERMIND and Iain Sinclair from Annie Oake’s Orchids.

Sharon Kivland, Conway Hall Library, 2024, photo @jhmmitchell
The audience in Conway Hall Library, 2024, photo @jhmmitchell
Karenjit Sandhu reading from Baby 19, published by intergraphia in the Green Room, 2023, photo Caspar Evans