Events at Good Press
upcoming & information

From our home at 32 St Andrews Street, we host events like book launches, performances, screenings and reading groups with publishing at their heart. We provide the space for your event or group free of charge, all you need to do is promote it (or not if the occasion needs to be closed to a wider public.) We have lots of stools and a handful of backed chairs, we also have a toilet on site. If you are interested in holding an event here, please get in touch!

Events run from 6:30-8pm (unless otherwise noted)

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UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Thursday 2nd October

    LAUNCH: The Yellow Paper #6: ‘A Social Process of Unknowing Yourself in Real Time'

    On the night, there will be readings by Kate Briggs, Aurelie Chan Hon Sen, James Epps, Laurie Figgis & Lucie McLaughlin, Hazel Glass, Laura Haynes, Caitlin Merrett King, Phyllis McGowan, Sara O’Brien, Susannah Thompson, Kate Timney and more.

    A CONVERSATION: WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS IT FOR?

    ‘A Social Process of Unknowing Yourself in Real Time’: Work on Conversation documents collective thinking, workshop materials, exchanges, pedagogical rituals and new writing from a year-long group inquiry into practices of conversation. Kate Briggs was Practitioner-in-Residence at The Glasgow School of Art, hosted by the School of Fine Art’s Master of Letters in Art Writing, between 2022-2023.

    With contributions from Freya Alexander, María Garay Arriba, Kate Briggs, Oliver Canessa, Daniela Cascella, Aurelie Chan Hon Sen, Nicky Coutts, Kim Crowley, Esther Draycott, James Epps, Kaya Erdinç, Laurie Figgis, Naomi Garriock, Hazel Glass, Laura Haynes, Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe, Caitlin Merrett King, Nanjoo Lee, Esyllt Angharad Lewis, Sarah Long, Phyllis McGowan, Lucie McLaughlin, Andy Murray, Sara O’Brien, Rosie O’Grady, Clara Raillard, Ben Redhead, Becky Šik, Susannah Thompson, Kate Timney & Sarah Tripp.

    Edited by Kate Briggs and Laura Haynes.

  • Thursday 9th October

    READING: Funto Omojola, Adrien Howard & Nat Raha

    Funto Omojola is a Nigerian American writer, performer, and artist. Their work considers the ways death and visioning—as understood through West African folkloric systems of belief—are contextualized in relation to Western medical understandings of the (Black) body. Omojola is the author of If I Gather Here and Shout (2024), winner of the 2022 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Their writing has appeared in American Poets Magazine, The Baffler, Boston Review, Ghost Proposal, and The Offing, among other publications. They have received fellowships from Cave Canem, MacDowell, Millay Arts, and the Poetry Project, and presented their work at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn; Gladstone Gallery, New York; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. They live in New York.

    Adrien Howard     is an artist based on the west coast of Scotland. They work both independently and collaboratively to produce projects which are often embodied through writing, printed matter, voice, sound and performance. Adrien’s work has been presented at readings, events and exhibitions internationally. Most recently for Prototype 7, Prototype Publishing, London (2025); Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland; Glasgow International, Glasgow (both 2024); The Brooklyn Rail, New York (2023); and TULCA Festival, Ireland (2021). In 2025, Adrien was selected as one of the Foyle’s Artists in Residence at Hospitalfield House. There, he explored possible modes of expression for a project Models, an ongoing project which included a solo exhibition at Glasgow Project Room. Adrien has an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York and is a co-founder and director of Rosie’s Disobedient Press.

  • Tuesday 14th October

    LAUNCH: The Discreet Dash by Georgina Starr

    With readings by Georgina Starr & Sue Tompkins.

    Leaning back again on the chaise longue with something vaguely resembling cheese-dust melting on her tongue, Dora felt like a psychiatric patient about to undergo analysis, she was not at all comfortable with this new role...

    It's London in 2001. The lives of two strangers, Dora and Susan become connected via a 1950s movie resulting in collective time-travel through film fictions, dreams, and hallucinatory realities. The result? A series of sonic events leading to the birth of an unknown species...

    Drawing on historical female mythologies including The Legend of St Ursula, the Immaculate Conception, and ancient mother cults, The Discreet Dash is the debut novel of acclaimed visual artist Georgina Starr.

    ‘A slant-detective story as much as a queer tale of desire and repressed histories, told in prose reminiscent of Leonora Carrington herself. Hilarious and far more perverse than it first appears, Starr’s surrealist narrative is built around an empty hole, populated with mysterious larvae, esoteric magic and hazy filmic glamour; the unlikely protagonist a listening machine—‘an invisible ear, a huge self-conscious organ hiding in the shadows listening’—who slowly unravels the mystery into increasingly menacing fractals of revelation.’
    -Nell Osborne

    Internationally acclaimed artist Georgina Starr has been exhibiting worldwide in galleries and museums since the early 1990s. Her artworks, which span film, sound, sculpture, writing and performance, have been described as “magically complex works that challenge the viewer to re-examine the self, the unconscious and its ever –morphing biographies through a glittering and melancholic theatre of memory, mythology and fiction.” Her recent film Quarantaine was nominated for the Jarman Award. The Discreet Dash is her debut novel.

    Published by JOAN Publishing

  • Tuesday 21st October

    LAUNCH: This Too I Called Love by Kathia Huitrón

    This too I called love is a poetry collection that centres around the concept of love, aiming not to define what love is but to showcase the different range of things that love can signify for a person, from romantic relationships to the relationship with yourself.

    Kathia Huitrón is an Edinburgh-based Mexican author. She has a MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh, and she has recently founded her own publishing company called Nowhere Publishing. This too I called love is her fourth poetry collection.