The Indie Press Book Fair - All Day from 10.00am - featuring Dead Ink Books, Weather Glass Books, Renard Press, Indie Novella, Heloise Press, Scorpius Books, Istros Books, Afsana Press, Deixis Press, époque press, SRL Publishing, Prototype Publishing.
11.00am: A History of Publishing with Andrew Hayward.
11.00am: Gallery Walk with Sarah Airriess on The Making of The Worst Journey in the World Graphic Novel.
12.30pm: Debut Authors Panel – Aclaimed and prizing winning authors Xaviere Musih Tedji, Emma Brand and Mira Marcinow speak of their journey as writers and the steps (and awards) along the way to their first published novel. The authors will also offer advice to aspiring authors.
2pm: Publishing Panel with Independent Publishers including Will Dady of Renard Press and Neil Griffiths of Weather Glass Books and the Republic of Consciousness Prize.
4pm: Headline event Marieke Bigg and Phoebe McIntosh: Novelists Marieke Bigg and Phoebe McIntosh discuss their upcoming books and how publishing can boldly tackle societal issues.
Marieke Bigg: Dr Marieke Bigg is an author of fiction and non-fiction and her work exposes the social questions at the heart of medicine and culture and the ways in which medicine is not gender neutral. Waiting for Ted is her debut novel and charts the destruction of a relationship at the hands of an expensive chaise longue.
Phoebe McIntosh: Phoebe McIntosh is an actor, author and playwright. She wrote and performed in a sell-out run of her first play The Tea Diaries at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, followed by her solo show Dominoes which toured the South East and London in 2018. Phoebe won a place on the inaugural Tamasha x Hachette creative writing programme in 2018 and was also selected for the Penguin Random House WriteNow programme in 2020. Her debut novel Dominoes will be published March 2024.
