Program
Multicultural Book Fair 2025
Readers for 2025
This year’s readers’ lots of publishers and their authors are reading on the main stage.
Performances start at 11 am for one hour and again at 13.30 for one hour.
Our gala show has more readings and an open mic for you to sign up. Doors open at 6 pm,
The Square Pig 30-32 Procter St, London WC1V 6NX
Multicultural Book Fair, Conway Hall Red Lion Square WC1R 4RL
Saturday 6th Sept Ticket Eventbrite
More reader to to announced soon
Amy neilson SMITH
Amy is a poet & Director of A Blind Bit of Difference (Insta) inclusive arts charity (Arts Council/British Council). She’s led disability ‘Sensory Spoken Word’ projects in Brazil, Africa & Bangladesh – her book profits (#DarkMatter) go to #Leedo, a Bangladeshi orphanage! As an activist poet, Amy’s performed at #HouseOfCommons (Saudha Arts), Sensory Artist: #RoyalAcademy & #WestEnd in the #PoetryBrothel.
11AM Main Stage
Molly aRBUTHNOTT
Molly Arbuthnott is a teacher, author, editor, and academic from Scotland. She is passionate about the promotion of children’s literature and has published seventeen award winning picture books. Molly crafts narratives based on people that have been important in her life and that are simultaneously honest and gentle, teaching children about empathy, teamwork and moral courage.
Find out more about her writing through her website- www.mollyarbuthnott.co.uk
Molly Arbuthnott 1:40 MAIN Stage
Timothy Adès
rhyming translator-poet, is a Trustee of Agenda Editions, with two bilingual French books from Agenda: Storysongs/Chantefables for children, by Robert Desnos with art by Cat Zaza, and The Madness of Amadis, by Jean Cassou. He has awards for both poets, and for others, and is on Facebook and YouTube.
Agenda Poetry 11:30 AM Main Stage
Elizabeth Barton
Elizabeth Barton is the Stanza Rep for Mole Valley Poets, in Surrey, and editor of their anthologies. She has a Cambridge degree and has lived in Madrid and Virginia, taught in secondary schools, and volunteered for overseas aid and environmental charities and for the Surrey Wildlife Trust. She reads from her debut pamphlet, If Grief were a Bird, 2022, from Agenda Editions.
Agenda Poetry
Caroline Maldonado
Caroline Maldonado, poet & translator, lives in London and Italy, and was chair of the Trustees for Modern Poetry in Translation. Laura Fusco’s Liminal about refugees (followed by Nadir) won her a PEN (UK) Translates award; she translated Isabella Morra and Rocco Scotellaro; in Mirror and Stone she translates Michelangelo.
Agenda Poetry
Kathy Casimir MacLean
Kathy Casimir MacLean is the author of “Black Man Listen”, the biography of her grandfather JR Ralph Casimir who was a Garveyite and Pan-Africanist from Dominica. Kathy was born in Dominica, but has lived and worked as an educationalist in London for most of her adult life.
Jane Ulysses Grell
Jane Ulysses Grell is a London-based storyteller, writer, teacher and poet. Her books of poetry include “White River Blues” and, for children, “Mosquito Bounce”. She was born and grew upon Dominica. Her work also features in the international anthology, “New Daughters of Africa”.
lIZ kENDAL
Liz Kendall is a poet and non-fiction writer based in Surrey. With Vilma Bharatan she co-authored Meet Us and Eat Us: Food plants from around the world, which celebrates biodiversity in poetry, prose, and fine art photography. Liz’s poetry is published in anthologies from Candlestick Press and The Hedgehog Poetry Press, and in journals including Mslexia, Flights, Clarion, The Dirigible Balloon and Amethyst Review. For Meet Us and Eat Us and a free monthly newsletter visit meetusandeatus.co.uk, and to read a selection of Liz’s poems visit theedgeofthewoods.uk. She is on Instagram @meetusandeatus and Facebook @rowansarered.
Liz Kendal 2pm Main Stage
Conway Hall & Gala Show Readings
Time slots
| Day Readings – Conway Hall | Timings | Gala Show Readings – The Square Pig | Timings | |
| Redeeming Features – S London books – 5-7 mins | 11.00am | Assorted Translations – Timothy Ades + Caroline Maldonado – 5-7 minutes | 7.00pm | |
| Alex Grehy – S London books – 5-7 mins | 11.10am | Bettina Schroeder – S LONDON BOOKS – 5-7 mins | 7.10pm | |
| Utopians – Yasmin Heinz – 5-7 minutes | 11.20am | George Harris – S LONDON BOOKS – 5-7 mins | 7.20pm | |
| Agenda Poetry – Timothy Ades + Elizabeth Barton – 5-7 minutes | 11.30am | Anna Somerset – S LONDON BOOKS – 5-7 mins | 7.30pm | |
| Bettina Schroeder – S London books – 5-7 mins | 11.40am | Jack Shamash – S LONDON Books – 5-7 mins | 7.40pm | |
| James Smith – S London books – 5-7 mins | 11.50am | Patricia Flowers – S LONDON BOOKS – 5-7 mins | 7.50pm | |
| Adelaida Monguillot – Amatista Books – 5-7 minutes | 12.00pm | Pip McDonald – S London Books – 5-7 mins | 8pm | |
| Suresh – 5-7 mins | 12.10pm | |||
| BREAK 8.10PM – 8.30PM | ||||
| BREAK FOR LUNCH 12.30 – 13.30 | ||||
| Rafa – Goat Star Books – 5-7 minutes | 8.30pm | |||
| Molly Arbuthnott – Arbuthnott books – 5-7 mins | 1.40pm | Colin Osborn – S London books – 5-7 mins | 8.40pm | |
| Patricia Flowers – S London books- 5-7 mins | 1.50pm | Alain English – S London books – 5-7 mins | 8.50pm | |
| Liz Kendall – 5-7 minutes | 2.00pm | Keith Bray – S London books – 5-7 mins | 9pm | |
| Jane Ulysses Grell. – Papillote Press | 2.10pm | |||
| Rafa – Goat Star Books – 5-7 mins | 2.20pm | 12 open micers – 3 mins each | ||
| Keith Bray – S London books – 5-7 mins | 2.30pm | |||
| Alain English – S London books – 5-7 mins | 2.40pm | |||
| Colin Osborn – S London books – 5-7 mins | 2.50pm | |||
| Kathy Mclean – Papillote Press – 5-7 minutes | 3pm | |||
| Lizzie Rose – S London Books – 5-7 mins | 3.10pm | |||
| Errol McGlashan – Insurgent Press – 5-7 minutes | 3.20pm | |||
| Rene S Perez II – Insurgent Press – 5-7 minutes | 3.30pm | |||
| Iris Sala – Insurgent Press – 5-7 minutes | 3.40pm | |||
| JD Halcro – Insurgent Press – 5-7 minutes | 3.50pm |
Multicultural Book Fair 2025
