The UK isn’t a particularly friendly place when it comes to small press published and independantly published authors. All the book fairs are by invitation only, and you only get an invitation if you’re already a celebrity.
So, we thought we would try to start up our own little con. Start small and grow sustainably 
If you’re interested in taking part in or helping to organise a (not too ambitious at present, but with potential) UK writers’ conference and book fair, please either join the yahoo group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/writingconference2010/
or bookmark the blog
http://britlitcon.wordpress.com/ Hopefully by 2010 we can all meet up at our own event!
Sounds exciting!