Brixton Library will host another Readers and Writers Zine Fair as part of Lambeth Literature Festival next month, with several comic creators, including Ignatz Award Nominee Dominique Duong, Hannah Lee Miller and Alex Moore, and indie publisher Colossive Press.
A fair will host 20-plus stalls of fanzines, magazines, publications, artists, readers and writers with the best of the latest in small press. There’s a communal zine table, too, so you can bring along a zine you have made and the Library team can sell it for you too.
Stallholders in alphabetical order are artist, illustrator, travel sketcher and doodler, A.H Kunstwerk (Alison Hui); Aghh! Zine, a zine created in the heart of Brighton; artist Alex Moore; performance artist and writer, Antonis Sideras; Books Peckham (the bookshop!); artist Jared Miller aka Cholofroyo; Colossive Press; Confessions of an ex-zine editor, currently making a zine about zombies and Top of the Pops; artist Dominique Duong; Ear to lend; multi-disciplinary artist and zine maker Adriana Fracz, the creator behind the photographic project relationship between person and place, Explore Your Own Garden; Gazette Girlie, creator of nostalgic and interactive zines, collages and crafts; artists, cartoonist and sculptor Hannah Lee Miller; Canterbury-based small press and occasional distributor Less Than 500 Press; visual poet and translator, Lucia Morciano; the father (words) and daughter (pictures) team behind the Music memoir zine, Lunchtime for the Wild Youth and Meal Deal Zine; Page of Wands, a writers’ collective that meets weekly at SET Social in Peckham; Jess Dempsey of Paper Moon Zines, creator of self published zines and collages inspired by the Moon and astrology; Rachel Rowan Olive, who draw, writes, researches and teaches on mental health, politics, and pets; indie publishers the Silly Dogs Brunch Club; comics and zine maker Stefan Alexander; The Little Review, which, unless there’s another publication with the same name, is the York-based pocket magazine for anyone interested in poetry, publishing pithy book reviews, surprising features, scraps of news and mischief, and a handful of new poems, published by Tristram Fane Saunders; Tubbing Rummy zines; waiting2xhair zine; Wicked Reasoning; and yamahighway.
Brixton Library in the heart of Brixton, on Windrush Square is a beautiful Grade II listed building, open seven days a week. On the ground floor there is the children’s library, adult fiction and a gallery room that can be hired for events. On the first floor there is a large non-fiction library, quiet study space and a reference library.
The fair will be located across two rooms in the library: the first, the gallery, is on the ground floor at the front of the building, the second is in the basement events room, which can be accessed by the lift or staircase. There is a ramp accessible entrance to the right of the library on Rushcroft Road, the library has an accessible toilet opposite the lift also.
• Brixton Library Readers and Writers Zine Fair 12 noon – 4.30pm Saturday 7th June 2025 | Free | Tickets from EventBrite | Facebook Event Page | Brixton Library, Brixton Oval London SW2 1JQ
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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