Join us at Foyles for a summer showcase of award-winning authors to celebrate the 10th anniversary of independent publisher Dead Ink Books.About this Event
2026 marks 10 years of independent publisher Dead Ink Books. Based in Liverpool, Dead Ink is the award-winning alternative to mainstream publishing: publishers of the weird, bold and genre-defying. Join us to celebrate this milestone with a summer showcase event at Foyles.
Dead Ink Books are rooted in Liverpool, but global in outlook. Offering something outside of the expected by rewarding deep reading, transgressive imaginations and counter-cultural tastes, over the years they have award-winning authors, revived cult texts and launched wildly inventive, experimental projects.
Kate Collins is from West Cork, Ireland and now lives and writes in Oxfordshire. Her debut novel A Good House For Children was longlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award 2024. Her literary hotel horror novel Saint Death will be published by Dead Ink in 2027.
Dan Coxon has won a World Fantasy Award for Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology, two British Fantasy Awards, and has been shortlisted for the award eight times. He has also won a Saboteur Award and was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Awards. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including Shakespeare Unleashed, Beyond the Veil, Fiends in the Furrows III and Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana.
Lorna Elcock was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize Discoveries programme in 2021 and has been longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. She has an MA in Creative & Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her debut novel The Windhover will be published by Dead Ink on 23rd July.
Matt Hill is the Philip K. Dick Award-nominated author of Lamb, The Breach, Zero Bomb, Graft, and The Folded Man. He lives in Glossop, on the edge of the Peak District, and his latest novel Wrecks will be published by Dead Ink on 6th August 2026.
Katie Huttlestone is a disabled English Literature teacher from Hertfordshire, and a Faber Academy alumna. A Healthy Appetite was longlisted for both the Lucy Cavendish Prize for Fiction 2024 and the Blue Pencil Agency Prize 2023, and it will be published by Dead Ink on 13th August 2026.
Lucie McKnight Hardy is the author of, among other novels, Water Shall Refuse Them, which was shortlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition and longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award. Lucie grew up in West Wales and is a Welsh speaker. She has also lived in Liverpool, Cardiff, Zurich and Bradford, and now lives in Hay-on-Wye. Her new novel Night Babies will be published in April 2026 by John Murray Press.
Event Venue
Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 8.00 to GBP 10.00
