Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair 2nd Edition
St James Church, New Cross, London, SE14 6AD
Sunday 16th March, 11am–7pm
Come along to the second edition of our Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair, an event bringing together Sticky Fingers Publishing’s friends, collaborators and allies for a fair celebrating feminist, queer, disabled-led and local interdisciplinary publishing.
Featuring 56a Infoshop, The Alternative School of Economics, Burley Fisher Community Press, Ⓐ DUDLEY Ⓔ, Em—Dash, How to Catch a Pig, Hydra Bookshop, Intellitrash, Montez Press, The Mosaic Rooms Bookshop, PageMasters, Parapraxis, Scarlett Letters Bookshop, Shy Radicals Distro, Sold Out Publishing, TACO!, Tallfinger Press and Tommy Brentnall.
PLUS a beautiful communal table featuring Featuring: ‽ Interrobang, A. Lyons, Anamot Press, Arthur Yu, BitterSweet Review, Callum MacKenzie Finnigan, Carrion Press, Cel, Chloe Cooper, common/playgrounds, D Mortimer, Prinx Silver, & Lydia Garnett, Deveka Davda, Discount Guillotine, elsewhere press, Elspeth Walker , Eve Archer, Fable Press, George Gibson, Head of a Woman, Holly Revell, Imperfect Index, Infinite Potentiality, Janelle Lovern Sinclair, Julian Konuk, Kayla Lui, Lassitude, LookDeeper Zine, Megan Fletcher, Megan Luddy O'Leary, Min Jung Tsai, Of Architecture, Page of Wands Writers' Collective, PANT, RE-PEAT, Régine Edwards, Sabah Choudrey, Sef, SISSY ANARCHY, Siting Yao, sleepydoggy, South London Landscape Research Blog, SPILLLL Studio, STIGMATA, Strike Design Studio, Soul Miles, yamahighway, Zgriptor Press and Zissel Aronow.
Programme
1pm–3pm: EX LIBRIS Bookplate & Sticker Making Workshop with Tommy Brentnall (drop in)
Join artist Tommy Brentnall for DIY sticker printing and bookplate making with postal label makers. Drop in any time and produce a beautiful/horrible bookplate to adorn the inside covers of your huge new collection of books, zines and ephemera that you have just acquired at the fair.
Tommy is an Illustrator, designer, printmaker and occasional radio host in London (mostly). He will be bringing stickers, self published ephemera, kids newspapers from The Hundred Club and a selection of other bits by friends and associates.
2:30pm–4:30pm: TRANS SLASH MAD: A Virosexuals reading group with D Mortimer and Jessie McLaughlin (sign up required, free)
In this session, writer D Mortimer and artist Jessie Mclaughlin will host a discussion on the 2020 novel The Virosexuals by Orion J. Facey and its relation to transnormativity. Facey’s novel imagines how the individuated body might be deserted in favour of the survival of the body politic. The workshop will look at the place of crip theory in dismantling capitalism's tendency to cannibalise identitarian movements. Informal session, no prior reading/knowledge of the text required.
Please book your spot here to avoid disappointment!
D Mortimer is a writer and artist from London interested in the crip unknown. Their first book, Last Night a Beef Jerk Saved My Life was published by Pilot Press in 2021. Their monograph Speed Glum Hero, which traces the arc of a breakdown, was published by Sticky Fingers Publishing in September 2024.
jessie mclaughlin is an artist, writer and learning curator. raised in north london, they are currently based between london and stockholm, sweden. their work connects grief, sex, formal/ informal education and educational practices, language, storytelling and, more recently, they have been exploring madness. they believe in a FREE PALESTINE.
All Day: Lavender Pages Donation Booth
Make sure to clear your bookshelves ahead of coming along and bring some things to donate to Lavender Pages, who will have a donation booth running all day. Lavender Pages is a solidarity project for LGBTQIA+ prisoners run by a collective of queer, trans and gender non-conforming abolitionists. They send reading material written primarily by LGBTQIA+ authors to incarcerated peoples across the United Kingdom. They run a subscription service sending books, zines & educational material four times a year free of charge.
Plus over 50 publications on our communal table!
Accessibility
11am–1pm Masked (KN95 masks will be provided on the door)
Based on last years event, we have decided this year to have a concentrated two hours where we can guarantee masking, except for those who are exempt. The remainder of the day will be unmasked and there will be no social distancing in place.
12pm–1pm Quiet Hour
For this hour, in addition to masking, we will have a quiet hour: no music, no small talk, just buying and selling.
Quiet Room
All day we will have a quiet room available for anyone to use. This will include comfortable seating and water.
Venue
St James Church has step free access via a side entrance that will be well signposted on the day.
There are gender neutral toilets and one accessible toilet on site. There is no baby changing facility.
For full venue access info, check out the Accessable web page.
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Photography by Holly Revell
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