Sticky Fingers Publishing


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.

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Submissions
Self–Publishing Sessions  
Lectures & WorkshopsGuest Lecturer & Introduction to Risograph Workshop, School of Cvuntology, House of Annetta (2025)

READ ALL ABOUT IT: Feminist and Queer Newsletters at the Feminist Library with Sticky Fingers Publishing, The Feminist Library, CHASE Feminist Network (2025) 

Guest Lecturer, BA Graphic Communication Design, Central Saint Martins (2025) 

Guest Lecturer, BA Graphic Design, Kingston University (2025) 

Introduction to Zines: From Science Fiction to Feminist Futures Lecture & Zinemaking Workshop, Imagined Worlds, Lewisham Libraries (2024) 

Amplifying Diverse Voices panel, London College of Communication (2024) 

Guest Lecturer, BA Fine Art, Kingston University (2024)
Press & FeaturesIt’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‘Permanently Deferred: A Bibliographic Opera’, How To Sleep Faster #15 (London, UK: Arcadia Missa, 2024)

Oisín 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)

Exhibtions
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 2023


Last Updated 24.10.31
Submissions 

We are currently closed for submissions. 

We expect our next open call for publication to launch in January 2025. 
We expect the open call for the communal table at our next publishing fair to open in February 2025. 

Please note that we do not have capacity to take on interns and won’t for the forseeable.