May 3, 2025
12-5 PM
Join us for the ninth annual Indie Lit Fair, co-presented by the PEN World Voices Festival and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). This year, the Indie Lit Fair will feature 128 Lit, Alice James Books, Berlinica, Contra Mundum Press, The Evergreen Review, Fence / Fence Books, Fiction, Get Fresh Books, Indolent Books, Sagging Meniscus Press, Solid Objects, and Under the BQE. The fair will take place south of Astor Place, on the sidewalk of Lafayette Street, between Astor Place and Joe’s Pub. Free and open to the public, the Indie Lit Fair celebrates the vitality and diversity of independent literary publishing, showcasing new and established poetry presses, fiction and creative nonfiction publishers, and innovative literary magazines. Stop by to browse, buy, and bask in the breadth of the literary arts being published today.
CLMP will also be hosting Vital Voices from Indie Lit Publishers at 1 p.m. ET at Astor Place. This reading will feature Jacob M. Appel (author of The School of Anecdotal Medicine, published by Sagging Meniscus), Lauren Belski (author of Dark Enough, published by Under the BQE), David Greenwood (author of The Cloud Intern, published by Under the BQE), Jacqueline Johnson (poetry published in The Evergreen Review and author of A Gathering of Mother Tongues, published by White Pine Press), Inna Krasnoper (poetry published in 128 Lit and author of dis tanz, published by Veliz Books), Kim Rosenfield (author of Phantom Captain, published by Fence Books), Anton Solomonik (prose published in The Evergreen Review and author of Realistic Fiction, published by LittlePuss Press), and Bakar Wilson (author of Daddy Show, published by Get Fresh Books Publishing).
The Indie Lit Fair is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
