Join us on Saturday 17th August for Small Press Day 2024 – a hybrid SPD with events in-store and online! A celebration of self-publishing, DIY culture, and grassroots comics across the U.K and Ireland and the internet.
HOW TO TAKE PART IN-PERSON
Want to host an event in a shop or venue? All the details of how to here
Have your Small Press Day event all figured out? Let us know all the details here
This year’s official SPD listings: Where you’ll find the Small Press Day event closest to you
A flavour of Small Press Day 2023 here – to whet your appetite!
HOW TO TAKE PART ONLINE
One hashtag to rule them all – join us on Twitter with #SmallPressDay
Calling all artists, writers, and shops – showcase your small press publications! Continuing a tradition that started in 2020, our all-day Twitter SPD celebration is back!
Join us twittering throughout the day and share your creations, recommendations, and small press stock with photos, videos, and all-important webstores and purchase links. We’ll be using the hashtag #SmallPressDay to connect, platform, and amplify all your small press amazingness. *
Join us to take part, to champion small press, and to reach a wider audience – and lets spread SPD love across the world wide web.
* We reserve the right not to promote content/publications that may be considered inappropriate or harmful to our community. More info here.
SPECIAL SPD 1:1 WORK-IN-PROGRESS REVIEWS
On Sunday 18th August, Broken Frontier’s Editor-in-Chief, Andy Oliver will be holding free 1:1 work-in-progress reviews as a special supplement to SPD ’24. Andy will be offering a small number of 1:1 Zoom sessions with artists nearer the beginning of their comics journeys to look at work-in-progress, discuss self-publishing and the UK small press scene, and to give advice about raising profile and getting attention for your work. These will run in the style of the old ELCAF Springboard Meetings – an informal chat with plenty of opportunity for questions – as part of the ‘Broken Frontier Connects’ initiative.
There will be twelve 15-minute spaces available on Sunday 18th, in two blocks between 2pm-4pm and 5pm-7pm. There will be no charge for these meetings. Rather than a “first come first served” booking system, spaces will be allocated through an application process. Priority will be given to marginalised voices, first-time applicants, and work that embraces the language of comics. Open to creators resident in the UK and Ireland.
To apply fill in the Google form here
Alternatively you can e-mail us at andyoliver@brokenfrontier.com with ‘Broken Frontier One-to-One Meetings’ in the title field of the e-mail.
In your e-mail application please provide us with the following information:
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- Artist name (if different from given name)
- Website url
- Social media details
- Which bookings blocks you will be available for
- Three attached images representing your work
- A short bio about yourself and your practice (optional)
- Any access needs to support online participation (we’ll do our very best to meet these)
Applications must be received by the end of Friday 9th August. Successful applicants will be informed by the end of Monday 12th August.
Please remember: Broken Frontier is an inclusive platform seeking to celebrate the diversity of the medium and those who work in it. This means this opportunity will not be open to anyone who is either involved in, or who associates with those involved in, anti-progressive comics groups.
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