VITAMIN BOOK FAYRE is back, and this time it's a full weekend.

Artist publications, riso prints, essay collections, literary journals, catalogues, magazines, comics, poetry, self-published everything. Two days dedicated to the book in every shape it can take. At Brno Book Fayre 2026, 32 independent publishers and bookshops from nine countries across Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the South Caucasus are setting up shop: Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, and Armenia.

afterhoursworkclub (RO/HU), Alarm (CZ), Artmap (CZ), BELLA triste (DE), Brot Books Deli (SK), DASEIN Magazine (AM), deposit (HU), GURA MARE (RO), Incipit (CZ), Kapitola (CZ), Local Gr0up (UA), Mark Pezinger Books (AT), Markham Press (CZ), Nakladatelství Euskaldun (CZ), Nakladatelství FaVU VUT Brno (CZ), Neklid (CZ), Pes Press (SK), POMIZH (UA), projekt Moribundus (CZ), prímerie bookshop (SK), Shrimptail Type Foundry (CZ), Softcover (AT), Solomiya Magazine (UA), Spector Books (DE), tanec press (CZ/JP), tranzit.cz (CZ), Typolab / VŠVU (SK), [TypospoT] (SK), Utopia libri (CZ), wo-men (CZ), Xao (CZ), ZINEK (PL)

The accompanying programme is put together by the literary group Odsek, tracking the book as a medium, from script to text to sound and voice.

Saturday
- UN(DER)COVER: a glimpse into Brno's culture scene (FA VUT)
- On Rotting Sounds w/ Mark Pezinger Books, english friendly
- How a reading club actually gets made, with Odsek, Frederika Halfarová, MZK, Argo
- (Kids') bookbinding workshop with Vít Groesl
- East of What? Publishing in Post-Communist Regions, with MOST mag (PL), english friendly

All day: a quiet reading room and Alma Sedláková's installation

Sunday
- [TypospoT] workshop: layers
- Fuksová reads: Napalm v srdci (Euskaldun)
- Barbora Trnková: The Look of the Internalized Machine Gaze (FaVU VUT)
- Čitateľným písmom: talking typography and graphic design (VŠVU, SK)
- WHO CARES CLUB: decorating archival gloves
- Touhy a sny: on Czech post-socialist pop, Alarm in conversation with Karel Veselý
- StanicaMiru, performance, english friendly

All day: a quiet reading room and Alma Sedláková's installation

There's also a Zine Table this year, a spot for first-time zine makers, for the early, fragile, not-quite-finished stuff: Fanfara, Kata Knežníková, 4AM Fórum pro architekturu a média, Adam Pol, Nina Böttcherová, Idinahui Publishing, Klára Michálková, Pavla Nečásková, Charlota Horáková, slovadoprazdna.

Venue: Centrum VUT Tržnice, Brno

Book Fayre is a project by Vitamin and Odsek.