The North’s biggest and boldest annual event for arts publishing returns to the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, from 25-26 October 2025. This year Bound welcomes over 90 artist publishers, collectives and small presses to share their work alongside a free public programme of talks and events focusing on ideas of gathering and congregation. Our free public programme explores the critical and creative capacities of dancing, altered states, collaboration and collective joy, from raves to LAN parties, sacred rituals to mosh pits, high school proms to UFO clubs. 

Exhibitors

0.08 Imprints
20k and a dead sheep
ABC [Artists' Books Coopertive]
Antiphon
Archidustrial Ltd
Bandit Bazaar
Boggart press
Bona Varda
Book Works
BOOT Mag
BOROUGH
Buku-Buku
BULLY MCR
BUNNY BISSOUX
Caterpillar Press
Cel
Ceremony Press
Chris Printed This
Corridor8
Dance Policy
Doesn’t Exist Magazine
DR.ME / Waiting Room Press
Erin Jackson Raynes
fifthmars
Fistful of Books
Footfall
FOUL Publishing
Gi Press / Uno Magazine
Groundworks
GULP
HARDEL
Holly Eliza Temple / FILLER
Idiosynpress
James Unsworth
Jaz Christou
Jessie Churchill
Jessie Natsumi Troutt
LandingRoom+ studio
Less Than 500 Press
Lucy Roberts
Lydia Davies
Lyricalmyrical Books
Manchester School of Art
Mersey Bridge Books
Monitor
Morgan Ambler + Anson Johnston
neverdone press
New Dimension
No! Wahala Media
object | multiple
OBOUT *
Offcuts X Duende
Out of Place Books
Overlapse
Overwhelm Press
PHOTOMAFIA BOOKS
Practising Empathy in Mirrors
Qu Press
Ra Bear & Pariah Press
Rachel Littlewood
Rear Window Editions
Rowland Hill & Elisa Artesero
SEEMAWORLD
Sepulveda Fialho
Set Margins' publications
Shire Studio
Short Supply
Silly Dogs Brunch Club
soak books
Soft Tofu Press
STAT
Sticky Fingers Publishing
Struggling Art Space
STUDIO PUBLIC HOUSE
Surface Editions
Sweet Tooth
TALKER
Team Trident Press
Tendencies & Tacabanda
The FATCANFLUB
the modernist
The Mosaic Rooms Bookshop
The Wanderin' Library
TONER
Useless
Village
Well Books
World Force Artifacts
Xavier Martin
Yuka Kobayashi
ZONE6
Find out more about our previous fairs in our Archive

Bound Art Book Fair's mission is to provide a platform for a diverse and international range of projects and exhibitors to share their work and reach new audiences, with a particular focus on those from the North of England. We build and sustain communities around print publishing practices whilst exploring the potential for expanded forms of publishing that engage or interact with performance, music, sculpture, fashion, moving image and activism. “Get involved!” is a foundational principle. Bound also instigates interim projects generating new publications and commissions, and we have worked with partners including the Working Class Movement Library, Derby International Photography Festival, and Sounds from the Other City. 

Bound Art Book Fair firmly opposes all forms of sexism, racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism and hyper-surveillance. We have a history of platforming under-represented and marginalised voices through our free public programmes, and have supported organisations that promote worker-led struggle, migrant's rights, decolonisation, and an end to cultures of incarceration. We believe that challenging systems of discrimination demands intersectionality and personal accountability. We stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine.