FULL-DAY (In Person)

READERS: spend a wonderful day in the company of a wide variety of authors from around the UK. Tickets still available from Eventbrite. Advance booking recommended as we can’t guarantee there will be any tickets left on the day.

AUTHORS: network with other authors and readers. The panels are full to take part but you’re welcome to purchase a ticket and have your flyers and/or bookmarks on the marketing table. There are spaces to take part in the October festival. See the Participate page for details.

TICKETS: available via Eventbrite. Half-day tickets (10am-2pm or 1pm-6pm) are £10 plus Eventbrite fee (c.£1.50) or £20 (plus fee) for all day.

WHEN/WHERE: The first ‘in person’ festival is being held on Sunday 26th April 2026 at The Holiday Inn, on the corner of New Road / Aston Clinton Road, Aylesbury HP22 5QT.

BOOKS: We will have a bookshop for panel authors’ books. They will  receive 100% of the agreed cover price. Any card fees will come out of ticket sales. There will also be book-related tote bags for sale at just £3 each. ALL the profits from the day goes to the three book-related local charities.

Self-Pub Fest has been created by Aylesbury author, tutor, mentor, WI/U3A speaker, blogger, podcaster Morgen Bailey, who you may know from looking after many of the local book swap libraries. She has three crime-writing friends on her unofficial committee (names in bold below).

APRIL: The April in-person festival will be held as hourly genre panels with approximately four authors in each panel. Each panel will last approximately 30 minutes including audience questions. There’s then the opportunity to purchase books, have them signed by the panellists and network before the next panel starts.

There are currently just 60 tickets available (£20 all-day or £10 half-day – plus booking fee) on Eventbrite.

The Sunday 26th April 2026 panels will consist of the following genres and authors. The names in bold are the festival committee members.

10am: Children’s/YA panel

11am: Crime panel

12pm: Historical panel

1pm: Morgen will be hosting a short workshop on ideas and inspiration followed by a Q&A panel session (with the moderators from the seven panels) on anything writing related. Do pick our brains! Then Bassie Gracie will be reading her poetry.

2pm: Non-fiction panel

3pm: Poetry and Short Stories

We’re very fortunate to have photography taken during this session by Captured By Charlotte.

4pm: Romance/Women’s Fiction

We’re very fortunate to have photography taken during this session by Captured By Charlotte.

5pm: Science-fiction, fantasy and horror

If you’re an author (self-published or traditionally published) you’re very welcome to buy a ticket and have your marketing material (bookmark and/or A5 flyer) on the marketing table. You won’t have your books in the bookshop on the day but hopefully you will be able to chat with potential readers. Should any of the listed authors not be able to attend on the day and you’re self-published ~ this is a self-publishing festival ~ you’re welcome to be a ‘reserve’ (you would still have to buy a ticket!).

Sunday 4th October 2026 ~ focusing on the nuts and bolts of publishing

  • There will be a mix of author panels as well as talks by ‘experts’: cover designers, editors, formatters, publishers etc. Again held at the Holiday Inn, Aylesbury.

Future dates

  • Sunday 25th April 2027
  • Sunday 3rd October 2027
  • then the last Sunday in April
  • then the first Sunday in October

If you’d like to take part see the Participate page.