Three friends. Three countries. Three very different literary journeys that all began with a shared love of music in Oxford.

Born in Colombia and adopted by Britain through love, language and music, I discovered my writing voice in English at the turn of the millennium. Before becoming a novelist I spent many years as a classical and tango singer, performer and teacher and I met Renata Lanzoni and Anila Syed through my vocal harmony projects, Singing for the Terrified and Songthreads.

When live meetings became impossible after COVID, Songthreads gave way to Wordthreads to channel our love of music into the love of words.

My own work explores the meeting point between science, spirituality and human relationships. I will be signing the third edition of The Secret Life of a God, the opening novel in The Physics of Passion trilogy, together with Wordthreads anthologies Pigeon Tales, and The Rogue Potato and The Pinging Cat.

Joining me is Italian author Renata Lanzoni, whose novel Shattered Moon draws on real-life experience to tell a gripping story of abuse, resilience and survival on a tropical island. She is also the author of the travel guides Oxford in One Afternoon and The Light-Packer’s Guide: Globetrotting on Bare Essentials.

From Pakistan, Anila Syed brings a distinctive voice that moves effortlessly between literary fiction and children’s books. Her genre-defying collection Prompted showcases her imaginative storytelling, alongside a growing body of work for younger readers.

Hello. I’m Adam and I am an author from West Molesey in Surrey.

My books include “Goodbye Mother Bear” which was featured in The Daily Express newspaper and was then shortlisted for a book award. “The Big & The Little Monster” series, “Goodnight Mr Moon,” and “Siniser Shorts” which is a collection of MG horror short stories for young (and big) horror fans who enjoy books like Goosebumps. I’ve also co-authored one non-fiction book “Fun on the Merry-go-Round with a Sixpence to Spend” set in the 60’s, and got the one film credit.

Diagnosed with dyslexia from the age of 5, I discovered my love for reading when I was 11 and knew that I wanted to be an author and inspire others with disabilities.

I hope to meet you at Oxford Indie Book Fair where I’ll be selling my books including my brand new book “The Young Mermaid”.

Deborah Taylor, The Blue Pencil, is a freelance copy editor and proofreader based in Newbury, Berkshire. A member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, she specialises in working with indie authors and small publishers across crime, memoir, and romance genres.

With a background rooted in the print industry, Deborah brings warmth, expertise, and a genuine love of language to everything she does. She supports self-publishing authors, combining meticulous attention to detail with a warm, encouraging approach—because great editing should feel like a collaboration.

Tom is the author of fifteen books of fantasy, SF and historical fiction – including the Twilight Reign series, The God Fragments and his latest series, The Devil Diaries. After a degree in International Relations he went straight into publishing where he still works. He never received the memo about suitable jobs for writers and consequently has never been a kitchen-hand, hospital porter, pigeon hunter, or secret agent. He lives in Oxford, isn’t one of those authors who gives a damn about the history of the font used in his books and only believes in forms of exercise that allow him to hit something.

Marian Eastwood is the founder of the Oxford Poetry Circle in Oxford, UK and hosts monthly poetry and open mic events with featured poets.

Her debut poetry collection. Secret Codes was published last June 2025.

She served as a Labour Attaché for the Philippine Mission to the United Nations and other International Orgsnisations for seven years in Geneva, Switzerland after being the Welfare Officer for the Philippine Consulate in Milan Italy.

She founded the Boracay Paraw Regatta and International Arts Festival and managed it for seven years from 1992-1998, on Boracay Island in the Philippines.

Alexander Halford is a surrealist fiction writer based in Wapping, London, where the tides, cobbled streets and slow river light have become quiet companions to his creative life. A physicist by training and a tech professional by trade, he arrived at fiction by a wonderfully unlikely route—what began as a sudden spark of curiosity grew into a full creative pursuit.

His debut novel, Venus in Chains, blends his fascination with philosophy, the human mind, and the hidden codes behind human behaviour. First drafted at his favourite window table in a small café overlooking the docks, the book carries the imprint of that landscape: still water, changing skies, and the sense that meaning can be uncovered in the ordinary if you look long enough.

Influenced strongly by the psychological richness of Russian writers such as Nabokov, Dostoevsky and Turgenev, Alexander approaches fiction as an excavation of inner worlds. He is currently working on his second novel, which continues this journey through themes of identity and self.