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.
Ordained in 2005, Charlotte has served the Diocese of Oxford in numerous capacities for 17 years. In addition to varied roles within the University Church, Charlotte has been the Bishop of Oxford’s Adviser for Overseas Programmes; a visiting priest at Oxford’s twinned diocese Kimberley and Kuruman, South Africa; Catechist at Exeter College and Chaplain to the Mayor of Oxford. She is a member of the Oxford 3 Faiths Encounters and founder on the Oxford Annual Interfaith Friendship Walk. 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.

Euton was made an MBE in 2008 for services to the arts and young people. In 2013, Oxford City Council awarded him a Certificate of Honour for his contribution to the young people of Oxford across theatre, dance and creative learning. In 2015 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Rose Bruford College where he studied Community Theatre Arts from 1978 to 1981.

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. Weimin also painted the cover for one of OXiB regular attendees, author Elisabeth Hallett.

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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.

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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.