Sticky Fingers Publishing is an intra-dependant feminist press based in South East London, run by Kaiya Waerea and Sophie Paul. We produce experimental non-fiction at the intersection of academia, visual culture, art, design and performance.

Sticky Fingers Publishing put together open call anthologies, commission essay collections, and produce print-based ephemera with our Risograph RP3700. To celebrate the work we do we organise events in collaboration with Donna the First at queer bars in London and beyond.

We frequently work with an expanding roster of associate editors and producers.

Press & Features

It’s Nice That, ‘On Crip Time challenges the ableist systems that are “preventing disabled people from accessing the future”’(2024)
An0ther Magazine, ‘The Indie Presses Leading London’s Thriving Underground Literary Scene’ (2024)
The BitterSweet Review, ‘BitterSweet reviews… Masturbatory Reader from Sticky Fingers Publishing’, (2023)
Metal Magazine, ‘Sticky Fingers Publishing - Crafting Community in an Anti-Genre’, (2023)
Tique: publication on contemporary art, ‘SIX QUESTIONS, interview with Sticky Fingers Publishing’ (2023)
Residency 11:11, ‘Sticky Fingers in conversation with Lola Ofolemi and Christie Costello of bare minimum collective’, (2023)
Hero Magazine, ‘Masturbatory Reader: Sticky Fingers Publishing are asking us to reconsider the power of the erotic in literature’, (2023)
Polyester Zine, ‘The (Bad) Taste Test: Radical Acts of Queer (Self) Pleasure in The Masturbatory Reader’ (2023)
GENERAZIONE CRITICA, ‘Sticky Fingers Publishing’, (2022)
BOMB Magazine, ‘BOMB Retrospective: Cookie Mueller Revisited by Sticky Fingers Publishing’ (2021)
NTS Radio, ‘HEREMA: A soundscape by Leyla Pillai’ (2021)
Spam Zine, ‘(REVIEW) Stretching time: Dead Lovers: Anaïs Nin’ (2021)

Writing

‘Permanentley Deferred: A Bibliographic Opera’, How To Sleep Faster #15 (London, UK: Arcadia Missa, 2024)
Oisin Roberts, ‘Closing the Gap: Libraries as Dream Work’, The Toe Rag Issue 3: Dream Work (London, UK: The Toe Rag, 2024)
‘Some (not very) sticky rules by Sticky Fingers Publishing’, Books Is Books: A Statement of Intent from Minimum Efficiency Press (London, UK: Minimum Efficiency Press, 2023)

Exhibitions

Five Years of Sticky Fingers Publishing, Maximilian William ‘The Shelf’, March – April 2024
IM BORED OF READING I WANT REVENGE, Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow, June – August 20

Sticky Fingers Publishing

Submissions are currently closed. We expect them to open again in Spring 2026.