The joy of the Oxford Indie Book Fair: inclusion, creativity, connection, fun & thought. The Lord High Sheriff gets it and describes it as ‘uplifting.’
https://highsheriffofoxfordshire.co.uk/a-morning-among-oxfords-storytellers
Oxib is run by a volunteer committee, and you can see from the faces of the delightful students volunteers from Oxford Brookes Publishing Course that as well as hardworking, they were enthusiastic.
There’s a pic of me when I was their age behind the Lord High Sheriff !
Here’s me now on my stand in 2025 ..ah well.
None of this could have happened without the support of Felicity and Richard Dick and the Lucy Group.
It is great to have an independent Oxford icon behind us. Shona Nicholson the experienced event organiser is neither an author nor publisher but manages everything on the day out of the goodness of her heart. It was great to see another incredible organiser at the fair Michelle Casteletti announcing the theme for The Oxford Festival of the Arts 2026 Signs Symbols and Secrets
The pics show that oxib is for EVERYONE. Dr Katie Isbester of Claret Press, my publisher, led the discussion of David v Goliath. She launched Secrets of Micro publishing… so if you want to start a publishing company get a copy.
