Submitting the application does not reserve your booth by itself. Your booth is only secured once payment is completed through Square. It is a 2-step process: this form, and the payment page to follow. When you submit this application, a payment link to make your booth selection and finalize your purchase via Square will appear on the confirmation screen.
Bitchcraft Fair is a curated Halloween marketplace, but we are trailblazers on broom-back who veer a little bit left of the status quo. Therefore, we are not a juried show and we do not run a traditional “panel review” process. Instead, we use a two-phase system designed to keep the vendor mix strong while staying accessible and transparent. This is our process because we believe in supporting small businesses without gatekeeping, keeping the vendor mix intentional without pretending we’re a jury, and offering a fair shot once early access is complete.
- Phase I - Invite-Only Early Access (ends March 1):
Before public sales open, we offer a limited early access window to
vendors we actively want to bring into the circle, based on past
participation, or local Makers & Mystics personally invited by our
team through direct outreach and trusted referrals.
- Phase II - Public Open Booth Sales: Once the Invite-Only window closes (or once those booths are secured), all remaining booths are released to the public and are available on a first come, first served basis through our application + payment link.
We do not send out our raven couriets to deliver confirmation emails outside of a receipt you will receive via our online merchant, Square. We also do not rely on email correspondence for mass messaging, as we have too many bats already loose in the belfry and the particularly rabid ones are most attracted to the gaping void in the corner that we don't like to talk about. Some call it a spam folder. We call it a mass communication failure on levels unfathomable. So we reiterate from above, keep tabs on the Portal page at
bitchcraftfair.com/portland-portal. Booth placements will be announced one month prior to the fair, so check there
by September 11.