The Dublin Small Press Fair (November 28 and 29, 2025) will celebrate small-scale publishing in Ireland and welcome small presses from abroad. We hope to foster rich and diverse connections among and across literary magazines, small publishers, writers, bookmakers, and others whose work intersects with writing, reading, small/independent publishing, and book arts.
This two-day event (evening preview with sales and readings on Friday 28 November; all-day sales and events on Saturday 29 November, 2025) will feature readings, launches, panels,and exhibitions alongside many tables of books and book-adjacent work from about thirty small and independent presses, book binders, zine makers, and more.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE // April 10, 2025:
The Dublin Small Press Fair (2025) is now open to applications from publishers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, experimental literature, literary journals, artists’ books, zines, chapbooks, broadsides, and more. If you make chapbooks, pamphlets, zines, artists’ books, mail art; publish editions of fine press work; run a small- to mid-sized independent press; or edit a literary journal in Ireland, the UK, mainland Europe, or farther abroad, we would love you to be part of the Fair.
Application deadline 1 July 2025.
Free to apply; accepted vendors pay no tabling fees.
Responses will be sent in mid-September.
Please note: though we would love to be able to host all interested vendors, space limitations mean our acceptances will be limited as well. We are committed to supporting and showcasing a wide variety of presses and publishers of all sizes and approaches under the umbrella of “small”. Please don’t our space limitations put you off—we will make room for as many people as we can, and keep a list of all interested vendors for future iterations. Thanks in advance for your time and interest in the Dublin Small Press Fair. The application form will take approximately one hour to complete if you have images of your work already prepared.
About the organizers:
Tim Groenland leads the project ‘The Publishing Infrastructures of Contemporary Anglophone Literature’ at the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. He has written on publishing and contemporary literature in academic and popular venues including The Los Angeles Review of Books, Post45, and The Irish Times. His book The Art of Editing (2019) examined editorial relationships in US literature.
Éireann Lorsung is a writer and visual artist with a long history of small press work. She is the author of four collections of poetry including Pattern-book (Carcanet, 2025) and a fifth, Pink Theory!, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2026. Since 2011 she has run a small press called MIEL (currently on hiatus). Her current artist publishing project is Abundant Number.
The Dublin Small Press Fair is proud to be supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and Dublin City Council.
Special thanks to the staff and patrons of Pearse Street Library, Dublin for their hospitality and support.
Contact: dublinsmallpressfair /a/ gmail