The first online ‘Self-Pub Fest’ festival, spotlighting authors in various genres (see below), will be held on Sunday 25th January 2026 between 10am and 6pm UK time via individual hourly Zoom genre panels with up to six authors participating in each panel.
I am thrilled to be taking part in the Non Fiction Panel at 3pm UK time with other fascinating, award-winning non-fiction authors.
Join the chats LIVE – where authors from across the globe will talk about their journeys – from WRITING the stories to PUBLICATION. Each festival panel session will last approximately 40 minutes, e.g. 10am to 10.40am, including audience questions, to allow time for setting up the next panel.
Entry to the event is FREE – this online version of the festival is listed on EventBrite but click on this link to access the Tickets page then select the relevant panel’s Zoom link.
If you can’t make the live online event, you will miss out on participating in the Q&A, however ALL sessions will be RECORDED and SHARED on Morgen Bailey’s YouTube Channel and on the Self Pub Fest website.
For further details: Click on the relevant genre headings below for further details about each panel:
If you are an author with at least one self published title and would like to participate in any of the panels not marked FULL below – please contact the organiser. Equally, if you are interested in participating in the other online festival, or appearing at either of the two LIVE events in Aylesbury later in the year, please contact Morgen via the website. https://self-pub-fest.co.uk
Panels at Self Pub Fest Online on 25th January 2026
Correct at time of writing: please check https://self-pub-fest.co.uk/online-jan-july/25-jan-2026-festival for the most up to date information on panellists.
- 10am: Children’s panel (4 spaces): Lee Benson (moderator) and Sumaira Ahmed
- 11am: Crime panel (FULL): AA Abbott, Alison Morton, Denise Beddows, Donna Morfett (moderator), Morgen Bailey (festival founder), Nikki Copleston.
- 12pm: Historical panel* (2 spaces): Alison Morton, John Lynch, Patricia M Osborne, Ronan Beckman.
- 1pm: Ideas Panel (2 spaces): David Wake (moderating with Morgen), Graeme Cumming, Paul Gitsham, Tony Forder.
- 2pm: Non-fiction panel (3 spaces): Cleonie McLean, Denise Beddows (moderator), Jacqueline Lambert
- 3pm: Poetry (3 spaces) and Short Story (2 spaces) panel: Lee Benson (poetry), Esther Chilton (short stories), Morgen Bailey (festival founder, short stories – moderator)
- 4pm: Romance / Women’s fiction (3 spaces) : Kerry Manning, Morgen Bailey (festival founder – moderator), Patricia M Osborne.
- 5pm: Science-fiction (SF), fantasy (F) and horror (H) panel* (FULL): BB Elsin (F), David Wake (SF/F), Duncan Brockwell (H), Lee Benson (SF), Peter Snelling, Shaun Allan (H).
My fellow non fiction panelists are:
Denise Beddows – True Crime, Biographical Fiction & Local History
Cleonie McLean – Memoir – a bold love letter to resilience, identity and rising through the ranks
Me! – Travel Writing
If you enjoy this online experience and are based in (or can travel to) the UK, the organisers of Self Pub Fest will be repeating the experience – with different authors – LIVE at the Holiday Inn hotel, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire on Sunday 26th April 2026.
Tickets for that are £20 (full day) and £10 (half day) – plus booking fee – via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1828267319769.
Further details including participating authors on https://self-pub-fest.co.uk/online-jan-july/25-jan-2026-festival.
Other Literary Events and Festivals in 2026
For other literary events and festivals, including other dates for the ONLINE and LIVE Self Pub Fest later in 2026, check out my Your Month-by-Month Guide to UK Book & Literary Festivals 2026 – Jacqueline Lambert Author
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I had not heard of this so I shall follow the link and have a look. Good luck for Sunday.
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Excellent – glad to have brought you the news. The organisers are also welcoming of authors, for this or the other festivals during the year, so definitely keep an eye on proceedings 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Have you come across Author Events which is based in Southobourne?! I was so surprised to find this on my doorstep and be completely oblivious 🙂 https://authorevents.co.uk/
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No I hadn’t. I shall look at that properly. I was always looking to see ‘what was happening’ when I first started writing. Obviously a lot more is happening now, but I got wrapped up in self publishing and blogging and it’s passed me by!
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I know the feeling, Janet! 🙂
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