2024 Portland Indie Participants

  • Microcosm Publishing & Distribution, based in Portland and Cleveland, has books and zines to help you change your life, then the world, on topics like bicycling, writing, punk, witchcraft, Portland, gender, mental health, relationships, herbs, gardening, and more.

  • Cooklin is a cartoonist based in Vancouver, WA. Her work combines the arts of comics and journalism to tell stories about subjects that are personally important to her, such as depression, asexuality, and religious deconstruction. Through her writing and drawing, she aims to shed light on topics that get little attention in the mainstream.

  • LINDSEY DANAE PEREZ is a two-spirit multimedia Tongva artist who encourages self-decolonization through visual storytelling, giving voice to gender-nonconforming experiences, cultural reclamation, and spiritual awakening in their collection of handmade, self published comic zines. Lindsey is currently enrolled in the Comics Portfolio program at the I.P.R.C. and frequently participates in pop up markets across the west coast, selling handmade art prints, zines, buttons, stickers, sketch portraits and more. You can follow their artistic adventures on social media @LindzenatorDraws

  • Believe In Wonder is a youth focused publishing entity based in Beaverton, OR. Our focus is to promote imagination, inspiration, and positive thinking in kids and adults alike. In a time where social pressures and injustices threaten to take away our ability to dream of a better future, we hope to promote endeavors and education that uplifts and inspires, as well as provides creative outlets for the young and young at heart. We have an emphasis on bringing these opportunities to underrepresented communities and their allies, but we hope our work and message is embraced by many.

  • We publish PNW writers, translators & cartoonists along with European, Latin American, African, Asian & Australian, multilingually (in 3—11 languages). PNW writers get a world audience they wouldn’t otherwise have, as well as news &l gossip from NYC, Barcelona, Athens, Kolkata, Zagreb, Vilnius & etc.. We’ve done this for 20 years, with another global generation of writers & cartoonists. Traffic flows both ways: PNW writers & cartoonists get contacts, get to translate European artists & get published by European & Asian presses; foreign writers not only publish their work here, but also translate Americans into their languages.

  • Lovely Magazine isn’t really a magazine….It’s a one-woman zine and print shop that produces everything from poetry and prose, to false advertisements and horoscopes ~ all accompanied by an etching-like illustrative style.

  • Ree Artemisa is a self taught chicana artist. Her work focuses on themes of community, her heritage, BIPOC enjoying nature and LGBTQIA representation. They currently live and work in Portland, Oregon.

  • University of Hell Press is an indie press based in Portland, Oregon, that publishes irreverent and thought-provoking works across all genres. "Denting the world with words, one incendiary book at a time." @UHellPress

  • Kitchen Table Magazine: A Voice for Inclusive Food Culture.

  • Claire Gunville is a Portland-based artist whose work focuses on the ripping effects of our technological society, highlighting ecological and interpersonal changes through tech.

  • First Matter Press is a non-profit press in Portland, Oregon founded in 2018 to dissolve publication barriers for first-time poets and genre-breaking writers.

    We amplify local voices while empowering authorial ownership. With 22 titles available or in production, our annual releases center community and craft by inviting authors into a creative cohort where they crystallize manuscripts in dialogue with editors and fellow writers and collaborate with featured artists on original cover art.

    First Matter Press is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and our authors maintain 100% copyrights and sales royalties of their published work.

  • Stephanie Hatch is a contemporary artist, currently residing in SW Washington and working primarily with paint, collage, and glitter. Themes of identity, transformation, and a love for feminine power have long been common in her art, but in recent years her focus has shifted away from surreal figural work and moved toward landscapes. She revisits her childhood sense of wonder, joy, and belief in fantastic possibilities by creating dreamscapes drenched in a palette of saturated colors reminiscent of 80s and 90s pop culture (such as Lisa Frank, Hugga Bunch, Lady Lovely Locks, and Rainbow Brite.)

  • Airlie Press is run by writers. A nonprofit publishing collective, the press is dedicated to publishing beautiful, compelling books of poetry and offering a shared-work publishing alternative for writers in the Pacific Northwest. Our mission is to continue to support new and underrepresented voices, and to expand the reach and impact of a diversity of contemporary poetry, in the Pacific Northwest and nationally.

  • Brainfreeze Treats Club is an ice cream catering company operated by Molly Dennig, specializing in high quality, small batch frozen treats. All ice cream is made, churned, packaged, and served by Molly with so very much joy. Betcha get a brainfreeze!

  • Book Arts Editions publishes poet and multidisciplinary artist Marilyn Stablein who collaborates with international artists and designers as she works across genres. Hybrid works meld text, graphics, and design in limited editions, monographs, and mail art. Books include Bind, Alter, Fold, a monograph of 38 artworks, A Pot of Soup (designed by fluxus artist Dick Higgins), Company of Crows (cover art by Ukranian linocut artist ) and just released Tantric Song Lines: A Hybrid Sutra, printed in Nepal, 2024. Find her collectible work in special collection libraries—SUNY Buffalo, Yale Beinecke Library, Brown Univ. Library, The British Library & Univ. of Washington Allen libraries.

  • Sending scouts deep Into the Portland, Oregon literature and arts scene, Buckman brings together the cities sharpest and presents them to the greater world. Delivered with grit and cunning visuals, the printed medium is very much alive in Buckman.

  • Founded in 2011, Perfect Day publishes one book of creative nonfiction per year (or so).

  • Megan Chin is a queer mixed-race Chinese American visual artist who earned a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art while concentrating on gender studies. Megan has been an artist-in-resident at the Macedonia Institute in Chatham, NY as well as at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. In 2020, they exhibited work in the de Young Open exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Chin is a community member of the organization Anticapitalism for Artists and with grant funding from Regional Art and Culture Council organized an Anticapitalism Artists Book Club in Portland, OR.

  • The Poet Heroic is a podcast and small press publishing house founded and hosted by Timothy Arliss OBrien.

    We celebrate all writers and uphold the belief that anyone can be a poet.

    We celebrate all writers and uphold the belief that anyone can be a poet.

    We believe poetry can be words, photography collections, tarot decks, paintings, podcasts, secret envelopes, books hiding within books, crystal grids, drag queens, classical music, and quiet affirmations whispered into the dark.

    Submissions are always welcome.

    We have been featured at Powell's Small Press Festival, Reed College Zine Fest, Portland Zine Fest, and successfully funded our 2023 Pride poetry collection on Kickstarter.

    Check out our amazing work at: www.timothyarlissobrien.com/the-poet-heroic

  • My name is Kya, I’m an Energy and Tarot reader. I’ve been practicing for 6 years and counting. I’d be pleased to read your cards! @kyapapaya

  • Chess Club is a playground assembly of visual cultures. Featuring avant-garde magazines, art objects, and mineral waters. Launching in Old Town soon.

  • A Portland area trade press publishing a wide array of genre and titles

  • Pile Press is an alternative publishing collective located in Portland, Ore.. that is operated by SarahAnn Harvey and April Hernandez. Pile Press focuses on local and small batch printing. We publish a bi-annual literary journal by and for women + non-binary creatives, as well as a semi-regular Oregon centric lit + arts paper (CHUNK), by and for Oregonians.