Patrons & Partners

Author, actor, Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and now a regular on Radio 4’s Just a Minute!

Dr Janina Ramirez is a lecturer, researcher, author and broadcaster based at the University of Oxford. Her bestselling book, Femina was Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month for April 2023. She has presented a number of documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 and we are delighted she is a patron of our Book Fair at which she has appeared for book talks. She is touring this year to promote her latest book Legenda: The Real Women Behind the Myths That Shaped Europe.

Learn more about Janina on her website.

Founder of Hope4Creation, a charity providing training and education within faith organisations to help them adopt sustainability and eco-activism as core values, Charlotte is the Associate Vicar of St. John’s, Notting Hill, and was an Associate Priest at The University Church of St. Mary the Virgin. 

In 2021 she published Prayer for The Day (Oxfordfolio).

Learn more about Charlotte on her website.

Barbara Trapido is a well-known British novelist who was born in South Africa— the setting for her 2003 novel Frankie and Stankie (longlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize, as well as shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award). She is the author of seven novels including Brother of the More Famous Jack (winner of the Whitbread Prize). She currently lives in Oxford and is a regular attendee at the Book Fair.

Euton is a theatre maker and creator, working as a producer, director, writer and performer.
Euton left Pegasus Theatre as its Artistic Director and Chief Executive in 2013 to continue his passion very much rooted in a belief in community engagement in the arts and to explore and present black experience and culture and to give Black artists a performance platform.

Learn more about Euton on his website.

The award winning illustrator of the Winnie the Witch books, which have been translated into 44 languages and sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

Learn more about Korky on his website.

Weimin He is an artist working in different media and was artist-in-residence at the Ashmolean Museum and later at the Oxford University Estates Services where he created his Towers of the Winds book – in which he vividly portrays the transformation of the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers and a life drawing tutor at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University.

Oxford Festival of the Arts is proud to be the city’s arts festival, curating exhibitions, events and experiences across all art forms. With the festival office geographically situated in OX4 just off Magdalen Bridge, the festival acts like the metaphoric bridge between town and gown, contextualising events through exhibitions and artefacts, discussions, and performance, fostering partnerships locally, nationally, and internationally with cultural partners, schools, and the diverse communities in Oxford, whilst creating unique experiences, and commissioning new work, with public engagement at its core.

Writers in Oxford (WiO) was founded in 1992 to ‘provide opportunities for published writers to meet one another in an informal and friendly way’. The first committee included Philip Pullman and a number of other established writers. 

Today this Oxford Society’s membership has grown to around 200 and WiO has been an active society for writers, journalists and broadcasters in the Oxfordshire area to network, learn and enjoy each other’s company in a wide range of contexts.

The Poetry Centre is based at Oxford Brookes University under the guidance of Dr Niall Munro, Senior Lecturer in American Literature. The Poetry Centre is home to IgnitionPress, an award-winning poetry pamphlet press with an international outlook. The Poetry Centre has both exhibited and run poetry slams at all our Oxford Indie Book Fairs and we are delighted to be Partners.

As the biggest and best book fair in the country, OXIB is an essential arena for OxIA – Oxford Independent Authors – to promote the work of its members, enlist new members, and liaise with a wide range of writers, writers’ organisations and publishers.