Spike Island’s fourth book and zine fair brings together international independent publishers, designers and collectives whose work focuses on experimental design and literature.

Participants include: An Endless Supply / B.Books / Bedford Press / Book Works / Bronze Age Editions / City Edition Studio / Colin Sackett/UniformBooks / Copy / Eastside Projects / Foyles / Hato Press / Hyphen Press / Influx Press / Laydeez do Comics / Library of Independent Exchange / Mule Press / Museums Press / Nom de Strip / Penned in the Margins / Spike Associates 

Reading area: Åbäke / AND Publishing / APFEL / Sophie Dutton / Natalie Ferris / Gratuitous Type / James Langdon / Teller / Weng Nam Yap

Special book launches include:

• Book Works: Again, A Time Machine: from distribution to archive, edited by Gavin Everall and Jane Rolo

• Bedford Press: Public Occasion Agency 1–22, edited by Jan Nauta and Scrap Marshall

• Bedford Press: fm-scenario – Where Palms Stand – Mask – Delay, Eran Schaerf, edited by Joerg Franzbecker and Herbert Kapfer

• Mule Press: Showhome: Housing Developments of the South West, William Teakle

To accompany the fair, we also present a series of short talks, performances and readings by artists and writers. Alongside these are a rare exhibition of works by Modernist printer Desmond Jeffery and a temporary studio where Spike Island-based designer Jono Lewarne works with students from the University of the West of England throughout the day to produce a printed publication.

Schedule

12–5pm: Book and Zine Fair

1pm: I Am Dora
Claire Huss discusses the project I am Dora, a publication, online visual story and series of film screenings that explore how women's perceptions of themselves are affected by female characters in film.

1.15pm: Hyphen Press
Robin Kinross gives a short presentation focusing on the second edition of Norman Potter's book What is a Designer - his reason for becoming a book publisher.

2pm: Luke Kennard
Kennard reads from The Neropolis Boat (Holdfire Press), forthcoming poetry collection, A Lost Expression (Salt), and from recent science fiction novella, Holophin (Penned in the Margins).

2.15pm: Patrick Coyle
Coyle delivers readings originating from a recent series of small sculptures. Using the sculptures as mnemonic devices, the artist considers how a performance may be both scripted and documented using the same object. 

2.30pm: Samuel Hasler
Hasler reads from a work-in-progress, a prayerbook that is influenced by autobiography, film noir and art history.

5–9pm: Evening social

6pm: Holly Corfield-Carr 
The author reads a selection from her current project, Asterisms.

6.20pm: Marie Toseland
The Demise is a body of work incorporating image, text and objects. For this event, it is staged as a performance featuring a reading and projected images.

Followed by the launch of the Risograph print publication created by Jono Lewarne and design students from the University of the West of England.