Three highly praised novels, inspired by real events and real people, were followed by Sylvia’s memoir which involves the emotional chemistry of food. Crime fiction is a new venture for her so she has rooted her latest book Current of Death in an area she knows intimately.

For twenty-five years, Sylvia Vetta has written the life stories of others – 120 Oxford Castaways for The Oxford Times were turned into three books. Sylvia has a passion for telling inspirational but forgotten stories. She wants you to know about the courageous Stars artists (Beijing1979) and Asoka who was responsible for the religion we know as Buddhism but was forgotten for 1000 years. 

Father and daughter have written plays, film scripts, and books together, including memoirs documenting Ray Foulk’s life as creator of the original Isle of Wight Rock Festivals: Stealing Dylan from Woodstock and The Last Great Event. They have recently published their long-awaited novel, Picasso’s Revenge, and Caroline has published her illustrated collection of humorous canine poetry.

Oxfordfolio is a high-quality self-publishing provider, taking you and your unique story from manuscript to physical book. We are experts in full-colour integrated books with over 40 years of editorial, typesetting and graphic design experience. We work primarily in illustrated non-fiction (memoirs, histories, travel, biographies) but have also launched Anglepoise Books for quality fiction. We aim is to provide a flexible service tailored to your specific requirements as we take you through the whole publishing process  We work with personally selected artists and illustrators, copy-editors, proof-readers and indexers, graphic designers, typesetters, and UK printers to produce the best bespoke book for your budget.
Your Life • Your Story • Your Book

Dice Comics is a collective that offers you a brand name to self-publisher your work under. We can also offer a free ISBN (if available) should you choose to self-publish your completed work under the Dice Comics imprint. We hope to be soon open to submissions and publishing entertainment titles aimed at all ages.
Mario Coelho is an Oxford-based children’s books illustrator with work published by several publishers like Oxford University Press and Pegasus Publishers. Mario Coelho has also done various books with the well-known children’s poet and writer John Foster.

Selfishgenie Publishing is a boutique publishing house dedicated to providing a service for unknown, or relatively unknown, authors and allowing them to become better known. At the same time, we want readers to discover new works by new authors while enjoying their reading experience.

Our philosophy is that readers can’t know if an author is worth reading until they have read one of their books, therefore those books need to be available for them to read.

As a small publishing house, we can’t take on every author who wants to be published, but we can take a few risks. We can give a few unknown authors the break they deserve, while at the same time offering readers the chance to discover the next big name in publishing before their books become expensive to buy.

This year, our author Robert Cubitt will be exhibiting at November’s Oxford Indie Book Fair. he is a multi-genre author of both fiction and non-fiction, so we are sure he will have something to suit your reading tastes.

‘Life is serious, but is not to be lived too seriously’. Serious or humorous, my poems are always good-natured.

I write when I have something to say, and I feel I have found the right way to say it. It’s about having fun with words and meaning, using words skillfully to say things differently, and saying the familiar in unfamiliar ways.

In 2017 I self-published a collection of poetry and wit as Particles of Light. The book has been well received and has sold well in my local bookshops.
Intersecting Lines, my second collection, was traditionally published by indie publisher Beercott Books in 2021. It continues to reflect my interest in people, love, the natural world, and the human condition and is written very much with the reader in mind.

There are poems to move you, to surprise you, and to make you laugh. The humorous poems and one-liners are there for entertainment, to be enjoyed, though they often contain a ‘sting in the tail’. I hope readers will enjoy reading my poems and will feel I am putting their own experiences and emotions into words.

It’s such a great feeling when you get good feedback and review comments, or when somebody chooses to take home a copy of your words. That’s communication!

Josie is a fantasy and historical fiction author who lives in Oxford. She mostly writes about vampire romances, dystopian zombies, and lost civilisations. Her Oxford-based vampire murder mystery novel May Day won the Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award 2021.

Josie is also the founding editor of Indie Bites, a quarterly magazine that publishes short fantasy fiction by indie authors, and the writer of upcoming audio drama podcast “Jack Valentine, Vampire Detective”, a paranormal thriller due for release at the end of 2025.

Dennis Hamley has been writing for an unconscionably long time. His first book was published in 1962. He has written nearly eighty books, mainly for teachers and young adults, including The War and Freddy, shortlisted for the Smarties (now Nestlé) Prize, Hare’s Choice and the sequence of medieval murder mysteries, The Long Journey of Joslin de Lay.

He now publishes independently under his own imprint, Joslin Books’ though his latest novel, The Second Person from Porlock, a fantasy/riff on the chaotic life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was published by Fairlight Books in 2021. His latest book under the Joslin Books imprint is Out of the Mouths of Babes, first published in 1997 by Scholastic Press. This is a ‘Crossover’ novel, suitable for both adults  and teenagers.

Dennis became dissatisfied with the original ending: it left his characters frozen in time in 1997 with nothing solved  But the final situation would have had big consequences and these had to be followed through. Thus he wrote a new section, ‘Finality’, in an attempt to give a proper sense of an ending. He can only hope he has got it right.

Dennis was born in 1935. He read English at Cambridge and has a PhD from Leicester.

Elaina is an author, illustrator, former primary school teacher, and a trustee of the Robert Stephenson Trust. Based in Newcastle, Elaina uses her extensive experience working with children and her sense of fun to create stories that capture young children’s imagination and take them on an adventure. Her three daughters are the main characters for three of her book series, ‘Amelia and her Time Travelling Trainers’, ‘Imogen the Disnosaur Whisperer’ and ‘Violet and the Magic Vault’. 

Elaina’s latest book release, ‘Amelia and her Time Travelling Tainers: Take a Trip to See Robert Stephenson’ has been written to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first passenger railway to use steam trains to transport passengers. Children can learn all about “Locomotion” and why it was such an important invention. 

Elaina visits libraries for book readings and craft events, schools for author days, which include lessons in character description and scene setting, and events in collaboration with Grasmere Gingerbread® and Hopetown Darlington. ‘Imogen the Dinosaur Whisperer’ was shortlisted for the BBC Ignite Programme in 2021 and made it to the fourth and final round of the Best Indie Book Awards in 2024.

Roxy Eloise always dreamed of becoming an author, but writing a full book felt impossible—until a birthday gift, You Are a Badass, gave her the confidence to try. At twenty-eight, she finished her first manuscript and secured a traditional publishing deal through PitMad.

Her debut, The Guidal: Discovering Puracordis, is a dystopian YA fantasy set in a near-future UK where time determines worth. It follows a sixteen-year-old girl raised in a strict institute, grappling with oppression, mystery, and a secret that threatens everything. Inspired by a dream, the series blends rebellion, identity, and forbidden magic.

Originally a trilogy, The Guidal series has expanded to four books, concluding in 2025. Roxy writes for readers who love flawed yet determined heroines, corporate secrets, and worlds where strength means survival.

Memoona Ahmed is a British-Pakistani poet and mental health researcher based in Oxford. Her creative work focuses on her multifaceted experience with adversity and mental illness.

Memoona has been writing since childhood, but in 2019 started sharing her work in public. She won University College Oxford’s ‘Univ’s Next Novelist’ competition as an undergraduate student in 2019, and her poetry has been featured in the Word Association’s 2020 anthology ‘Words to Live By’ (Bite Poetry Press). She has headlined at Oxford Poetry Library and spoken word night ‘Speak Your Mind’, alongside performing at Cheltenham Literature Festival and more. Her debut poetry collection, once-joined pieces, was released in 2023 with Bite Poetry Press.

She is incredibly passionate about mental health awareness and hopes to become a clinical psychologist. Most recently, she facilitated a panel event for young people to share the importance of writing for wellbeing. She hopes to change lives through her emotive work.

Nichola McDonald is a storyteller who weaves the twists and turns of everyday social dynamics—family, friendships, workplace struggles and business rivalries—into compelling narratives that entertain while offering valuable life lessons. Writing across Adult Drama and Children’s Graphic Novels, her work captivates readers with relatable conflicts and thought-provoking themes. Her creative journey began in secondary school in Trinidad and Tobago, where she became a freelance writer and illustrator for the Trinidad Guardian newspaper’s Sunday children’s supplement. In 2015, she self-published her debut novel, The Ruby of the Runway, on Amazon. A dedicated paralegal, Nichola is passionate about crafting stories that not only engage but also inspire, leaving readers enriched with every page.

Matt Dolezal studied countryside management at Aberystwyth University. After graduating he spent time working in the field of conservation management both in the UK and abroad. For the last ten years he has worked mainly in horticulture, working on large country estates, organic farms, and nature reserves. Today he works as a professional Organic Gardener, helping to promote wildlife friendly horticulture practices, mainly around Oxfordshire. He has developed a wide range of skills and knowledge, which has helped develop his craft as Organic Gardener. 

Being emersed in nature allows his mind to draw from this inspiration. When he is not gardening he is creating poetry; it is something which comes natural. He loves to play around with language and different themes, and uses this in a unique way. Over the years he has built up a vast collection of poems, which have been published, into his first anthology called “The Birds Were The Only Ones Singing”  Whether you are listening to one of his readings, or reading his book quitely alone somewhere under a tree, you will be captivated and laughing.

Writers in Oxford is the society for published writers and authors in Oxford and Oxfordshire. Founded in 1992, it now has over 200 members spread across the city, the county, and beyond. Members represent every genre of writing: non-fiction (academic and popular); fiction (contemporary and historical, mysteries); biography, memoir, poetry, and children’s.

WiO aims to provide opportunities for published writers to meet one another in an informal and friendly way. There is an extensive program of events.

Creating has always been Jay’s greatest desire. He spent his childhood building characters out of Lego & cardboard acting out stories of creatures and heroes from far off worlds battling it out. In school he further this passion into his artwork creating all his own style in paints, models and later into developing short films.

Despite never having any commercial success, he ventured on with his talent and wrote the first of what will be a trilogy of spy thrillers starting with “A Day in The Section.” His writing is influenced not only from the countless great thrillers to exist on the page and screen but a reflection of the world we inhabit to the lives we live.

Jay has crafted a more grounded take on format, swapping out the big explosions for a more immersing look into the agents who are involved in them. Still, don’t worry there are plenty of tense close calls and cinematic scenes that leap off the page to keep you on the edge until the final, heart-pounding climax! 

Sandy Leong (@sandyleongillustration) graduated from the Royal College of Art and Hong Kong Baptist University. She has been awarded in the iJungle Awards and was shortlisted for the CA Competition. She has written and illustrated children books “The Butterfly That Wasn’t Painted Gold” and “Grandma’s Milky Tea ”.

Lookin’

Ki Wong and Yuetna are the co-founders of Lookin’, established in 2024 in London. This intimate publishing endeavor focuses on handcrafted, limited-run children’s books that explore themes of growth, well-being, and love, all grounded in deep observation, experience, and research. 

Tony Dwyer was in born in 1971 in Bristol, in the West of England, and spent his childhood immersed in folklore, mythology, the stories of Diana Wynne Jones and Edith Nesbit and various teatime children’s drama and science fiction television series of the 1970s and 1980s, imagining and writing stories of his own. Now, many years later, he lives in Oxfordshire with his husband Stewart and cat Boris, and is still writing. His stories are modern-day fantasies written for both children and adults to enjoy, grounded in English folklore.

Chris Andrews Publications has produced guide books, coffee tables and souvenir books in Oxford for over 40 years. The company also publishes calendars, cards, posters and fridge magnets. All are photographed, designed and produced by ourselves. We also publish books and cards in the Cotswolds, Chilterns, Channel islands and Belfast.

Liisa Sabah is a newly published author, she has always had a passion for reading, and growing up she fell in love with fantasy adventure books like the Narnia series, The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings.

Liisa has a passion for travel, too much coffee and a love for animals, especially those roaring big cats…lions! 

The Cocoon Within is Liisa’s debut fantasy adventure novel, an epic tale of spectacular creatures and other worlds with vibrant landscapes, all rolled into a gripping story that takes seventeen-year-old Ariana and her friends on the adventure of their lives! 

Meet Yiting Lee, a picture book creator who believes the best stories are like unexpected dance parties – full of surprise, colour, and boundless imagination! Originally from Taiwan and now calling England home, she’s a children’s book author and illustrator who turns every blank page into a playground of possibilities. Visit her stand to discover her delightful picture books and browse original artwork, including pieces from her latest works Le Jardin de Jean (2024), What’s the Rush? (2022), the beloved Mr White series and more.

J L Grange is an author of paranormal romance. Heir of Night is the first novel in a new trilogy. She has been writing for seventeen years and self-published her first novel in 2018. She’s a lover of all things fantasy/paranormal/horror and dark romance. Her fascination with the paranormal started at an early age from watching horror films with her dad and progressed into her writing her own short stories and then full blown novels. 

Other titles by J L Grange are Mayan Blood and The Amulet of Sekhmet, both part of the Lazarus Scholars series. 

Originally from West Yorkshire, she now lives in Manchester with her husband, two daughters and their pug named Barbarella. 

Ed Pope is an independent researcher and historian aged 76 who decided to publish three Oxford local history books that were launched in May 2024. Two were researched, written and designed by Ed Pope, and one was written by Rob Sykes and designed by Stig about events in which they both took part with Ed Pope in 1998. The titles are: Bill Hines (1839-1903) Oxford’s Socialist Chimneysweep and Six Hundred Years of Blackhall; and The LMS Occupation, Oxford’s 1998 Road Protest.

Ed Pope has also been a university dropout, a performance artist, a permaculture gardener, a naked protestor, a singer-songwriter and an unskilled labourer. His website edpopehistory.co.uk contains thousands of short biographies of forgotten individuals, mostly from 1750 to 1850 around London as well as some background articles including the full texts of his published books – all accessible free online.

John Webster was born in 1953 in the little-known town of Barnard Castle. Involved in alternative publishing since leaving school, he then created a collection of songs with lyrics by Shelley, Keats and Byron, and collaborated with Benjamin Zephaniah to produce documentary soundtracks on the poets. He has recently published a poetic memoir of a 70s overland journey to India, ‘The Rime of the Asian Highway’, and his new book, ‘The Closest Thing in History’ uncovers some unexpected and illuminating similarities between the Younger Romantics and The Beatles. He is married with one son and lives in Oxford.

I write since I was 12. First, diaries, then blogs, at 16, 17.

Academically – and existentially -, my interest concerns understanding people, thoughts, emotions and behaviour, and learning how we can be better people.

My first book, Ad Kalendas Graecas, is a compilation of disparate narratives, where the raw emotions of restlessness, heartbreak and the fall that they entail prevail. The texts, although separated from each other, are intertwined by passion, hope and the constant search for salvation, which always defeat cynicism, cruelty or carelessness. In a bilingual journey over a decade, the decade of early maturity, but without the experience of years, we read emotions made into literature. The letters save their author and hope to help save anyone who finds themselves in these fragments.

Published in February 2024 with Editorial Círculo Rojo, Ad Kalendas Graecas brings together in Spanish and English some of the texts written for years in the Ad Kalendas Graecas blog.

The Oxford Independent Authors are a mutually supportive group of writers who meet to share expertise, preserve independence and join together at collaborative events. The focus of this group is on marketing, promoting, selling and raising the profile of writers; it is not a creative writing group.

We meet once a month on Saturday afternoons at Headington Library in Bury Knowle Park, starting at 1.30 pm.

If you are an independent author or working towards becoming one and would like more information please send me a message on Facebook/Instagram – @colinwadeauthor, or on WhatsApp.

Established in 2017 and based at Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, ignitionpress is an award-winning poetry pamphlet press with an international outlook which publishes original, arresting poetry from emerging poets.

Pamphlets published by the press have been recognised with six Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice selections. Hinge by Alycia Pirmohamed was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award in 2020, whilst Fahad Al-Amoudi’s When the Flies Come and Clementine E Burnley’s Radical Pairings were both shortlisted for the same award in 2023.

The press won the Michael Marks Publishers’ Award in 2021.

Matthew is from Bristol UK. He has always been fascinated by how other animals perceive the world. He wrote the popular science book, The Case for a Living Universe, to take account of recent evidence around animal and plant cognition, which suggests that mind could be a basic consituent throughout nature.

Rohan Davies lives in Norfolk, overlooking the sea.

His debut fantasy novel, The Demon and the Witch, is a story of myth, magic and transformation.  Anike, a young herbalist, is cast into a new life while seeking a cure for her father’s illness. As she learns more about witchcraft, she must face former friends, monsters and betrayal before she can finally confront the consequences of her own power.

The Demon and the Witch is the first book of The Saga of the Witch. The second book, The Giant and the Witch, is due out towards the end of the year.

Rohan has read and enjoyed fantasy books his entire life, and has spent most of it designing and playing role-playing games. After a long professional career, he now writes and designs board games full-time.

Editor, publisher, and translator Tony Frazer founded Shearsman magazine in 1981, shortly followed by Shearsman Books. Based in south Oxfordshire, the imprint publishes poetry, plus poetry-related essays and literary criticism, and has a large and thriving translation list.

Great storytelling doesn’t just entertain, it energises. 

We are a small, independent and award-winning traditional publisher. We’re London-based and the majority of our books are about Britain. But our memoirs and travelogues take you around the world. So do many of our thrillers. 

We publish page-turners about politics. We grapple and engage, move and disturb, inform and entertain. 

Eniola Oyegunle is a mother to two neurodivergent sons, aged 10 and 6. Inspired by her experiences raising her first son, she recently published a book titled A Champion Speaks: My Son’s Journey to 10 Years and Thriving Beyond the Label. The book explores raising a child with speech and other developmental delays and concludes with practical guidance on encouraging child development in a supportive home environment.

Since writing the book, she has been building a “Thriving Beyond the Label” community to serve as a “safe space” for parents and carers of neurodivergent children. The community’s mission is to facilitate ongoing dialogue between parents and the professionals supporting their children to promote knowledge sharing. Raising her children has made her appreciate the uniqueness of each individual, a value she seeks to continue to promote. More details are available on https://achampionspeaks.com/

Janet has had shortlisted and prize-winning short stories and poetry published in online and print anthologies. Her 1st novel Beyond the Samovar, set in Russia and England, 1919-20, was published in 2019 by The Conrad Press. Her second novel The West in Her Eyes, a tale of exile, ambition and love in a fictional Russian family during the decade after the 1917 revolution was published in July 2024 by Resolute Books. At this year’s Book Fair, she will be selling both her novels and books by other Resolute authors.

Antonio Biggio (Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, 1970) is an international bestselling author, best known for his acclaimed thriller trilogy dedicated to Iron Maiden—a gripping blend of music, espionage, and adventure that has captivated readers in over 35 countries.

His passion for writing emerged early: at just five years old, he composed his first poems, and in 1991, he published the poetry collection Amore Teatro Malinconia. Meanwhile, theatre became his second great love. He made his stage debut at the age of nine and, in 1992, earned a Diploma in Acting and Directing from Starline (Cinecittà, Rome). Over the next thirty years, he built a career as an actor, director, and theatre instructor, founding three theatre companies—including the Compagnia Stabile del Teatro R&G Govi in Genoa where he served also as Production Director —and teaching performing arts in academies and schools.

In 2021, he made his fiction debut with Eddie Must Die, a thriller that quickly climbed the Amazon Bestseller charts and was later translated into English and Spanish. The success continued with Eddie’s Grave (2022) and culminated in 2024 with The Three Eddies’ Enigma, the final installment of a trilogy that has earned praise from both critics and readers worldwide.

Beyond fiction, Antonio curated the Italian translation of Loopyworld – The Iron Maiden Years by Steve Loopy Newhouse, published by Tsunami Edizioni in 2022.

Since 2013, he has lived in the United Kingdom with his family, continuing to nurture his passions: writing, theatre, football, cooking… and, of course, Heavy Metal and Iron Maiden.

About a couple of the Authors: Simon and Margaret contribute to the 3rd edition Côte Tales, Oxford. by the Walton Street Writers. Available at the Book Fair for £8.00.

SIMON HOWARD has been a screenwriter, director, lecturer, journalist and writer of all sorts. He taught film and drama at Prague Film School and the universities of Westminster and Roehampton. He still does drama sessions with kids visiting from Ukraine. For several years he worked as a writer and script editor for Just Betzer, producer of Babette’s Feast. His latest film project is as a writer on the Indian documentary Risk Takers about people living dangerous lives in Mumbai. He has been a special adviser to the National Army Museum. His novels Cupid’s Hypodermic, Rough Cut and World’s End are on Kindle. So are his poetry collections Children of Manu, Living Inside Strangers, Poems for Translation and The Accidental Post-Modernist. He splits his time between Oxford, India and a few other places – especially Tuscany.

M.S. CLARY has practised social work in London, Oxford and Miami. Has won prizes for short stories and published two novels, A Spell in France and Three Albert Terrace. Has worked in fashion, and enjoys fiction, art and film noir.

M.M. Wakeford lives with her husband and son in a London terraced house that gathers dust while she loses herself in her writing. A lifelong reader of romantic novels, she writes in many genres including contemporary, sci-fi and historical romance. All her stories strive to capture that heady feeling of falling in love, with authentic characters whose journey to a happily ever after is lined with dilemmas to overcome. If you’re looking for a page turning romance with high emotion and a good dose of spice, you’ve come to the right place.

Oxford based publisher of science fiction, paranormal, fantasy and horror. Come see our extensive selection of books from only £5 each.