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Creating new possibilities in the publishing of fiction & poetry through a flexible, interdisciplinary approach & the production of unique & beautiful books.

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We will soon be leaving this platform, along with so many others, and you'll find us on:

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Edinburgh friends!

Don't miss Caleb Klaces reading and in conversation with Martin MacInnes and Oli Hazzard this Thursday @GoldenHareBooks

Tickets can be booked via the link below or in the shop: https://t.co/EYHPfh4KV0

[English Association @EnglishAssoc]

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize. We'll announce the winner on #Nationalpoetryday. COngratulations to all the shortlisted authors!

@Carcanet
@picadorbooks
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@BloodaxeBooks
@FaberBooks

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You can order the collection with a discount of 30% in our summer sale with the code SUMMER30.

https://t.co/bD0EXaAU0D

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Really delighted to share the news that Hasib Hourani's rock flight has been longlisted for the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize.

Congratulations to all of the longlisted poets and publishers.

https://t.co/uQCpPa1Nao

[English Association @EnglishAssoc]

We are delighted to announce the longlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize. We'll announce the shortlist in September, and the winner on #Nationalpoetryday.
@Carcanet @NineArchesPress @picadorbooks @prototypepubs @BloodaxeBooks @dedaluspress @FaberBooks @ShearsmanBooks

[The Indie Press Network @IndiePressNet]

It’s #womenintranslationmonth – here are some fab books that you need on your shelves…

https://t.co/K15K6TgTku

Feat. @Istros_books @sinoistbooks @renardpress @DeadInkBooks @WeatherglassBks @bullaunpress @CorylusB @3TimesRebel @prototypepubs @SkeinPress @HeloisePress…

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So pleased that @niewview will be returning to @vocebooks in conversation with Sana Goyal in October:

https://t.co/VzqmZIANa4

[The Indie Press Network @IndiePressNet]

‘It’s very much a life as well as a job’

Indie Press Network’s Will Dady @renardpress talks to Jess Chandler about @prototypepubs, books, the indie-press scene and more on this month’s @spiraclehq’s indie-press Spotlight

https://t.co/ZJDDjLm20Q

[Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou @hhgsparkles]

Delighted to talk to the fantastic Kate Zambreno for @FaneProductions about her haunting & dazzling companion texts, Book of Mutter & Appendix Project, published in the UK by the phenomenal @prototypepubs

Book this deep dive conversation for FREE: https://t.co/T7D7F25unZ

[Dominic @le0nardpoetry]

Thank god for @imogen_cassels, whose first full-length book (from @prototypepubs) is just as luminous and brilliant as all her previous work would have promised. Annoyingly good. Buy it

[timrelfwriter @timrelfwriter]

'Death is what gets poets out of bed in the morning' - my new column about the poetry publishing sector in @bookseller @LisaDMKelly @TATFS @ignitionpress @prototypepubs @NiallMunro @tseliotprize @ForwardPrizes @Carcanet @GinaRozner @abosimian https://t.co/coSbOUAYxi

[Tom Chivers @thisisyogic]

Ten whole years ago today. My second, and final, book of poems.

[PoetsandPlayers @PoetsandPlayers]

Video of Sascha Akhtar performing at the @anthonyburgess last weekend @AkhtarSascha @prototypepubs
https://t.co/B0fctQE5Yp

[Astrid Alben @AstridAlben]

A few places remain on my advanced poetry workshop—10 Zooms Tues., 6:45–8:45pm (BST/GMT), start: 13 May 2025. 🐞

The course is designed to deepen your practice & take your writing to the next level, with a particular focus on translingual approaches.
https://t.co/GTgZqIt6cI

[Desperate Literature @DesperateLit]

⚡️EXTENDED DEADLINE⚡️for the 2025 Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction

You now have until April 30 to send us your stories!

desperateliterature/com/prize

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Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter is back in stock!

ed. Therese Henningsen & Juliette Joffé

with a new epilogue by Mireille Gansel

and an updated cover

https://t.co/8qitptLcRJ

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Huge congratulations to @sulaimanaddonia and all of the authors and publishers on the RSL Ondaatje Prize longlist!

[Royal Society of Literature @RSLiterature]

We’re pleased to announce the 2025 Ondaatje Prize longlist, a collection of 15 books that span a multitude of different genres and forms, all united by their excellence in evoking the spirit of a place.

The upcoming shortlist will be revealed on Monday 28 April.

[Royal Society of Literature @RSLiterature]

We’re pleased to announce the 2025 Ondaatje Prize longlist, a collection of 15 books that span a multitude of different genres and forms, all united by their excellence in evoking the spirit of a place.

The upcoming shortlist will be revealed on Monday 28 April.

[prototype @prototypepubs]

Proof copies of Jen Calleja’s Fair: The Life-Art of Translation are here! Publishing on 29 May.

Booksellers, reviewers, bloggers, let us know if you are interested in a copy!

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'Transient ideas and the Alps are closely related.
...
I find these short sprinklings of ideas useful to capture the details of a moment.'

An extract of Zsuzsanna Gahse's Mountainish, trans. Katy Derbyshire, is now on Tenement Press's Rehearsal blog:

https://t.co/NYi9xRBYdX

[Resonance FM @ResonanceFM]

To celebrate the publication of Milo Thesiger-Meacham’s ‘Audible Heat’ on Tenement Press, tomorrow at midday @ResonanceEXTRA broadcasts its audio counterpart, an extended documentary for radio, releasing 12th March on World Service.

https://t.co/OvndECfiRE