In Conversation with... Small Press Publishers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1913211533 ISBN 13: 9781913211530

Publisher: Fly on the Wall Press, 2021

Synopsis

A series of personal, curated interviews with the best of the UK's Small Presses. From advice on taking your manuscript to publication, marketing for authors and publishers and a look at contracts, these publishers wish to demystify the publishing process for budding authors, across a wide range of genres.

About this title

About the Authors

Isabelle Kenyon is a northern writer and the author of chapbooks: This is not a Spectacle, Digging Holes To Another Continent (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, New York, 2018), Potential (Ghost City Press, 2019), Growing Pains (Indigo Dreams Publishing Ltd, 2020) and one short story with Wild Pressed Books (Short Story 'The Town Talks', 2020). She is the editor of Fly on the Wall Press, a socially conscious small press for chapbooks and anthologies. She has had poems and articles published internationally in journals such as Ink, Sweat and Tears and newspapers such as The Somerville Times and The Bookseller. ​She was listed in the Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize 2020; 2019 and for The Word, Lichfield Cathedral Competition 2019. Her poems have been published in poetry anthologies by Indigo Dreams Publishing, Verve Poetry Press, and Hedgehog Poetry Press. She has performed at Cheltenham Poetry Festival and Verbose, Manchester in 2020, Leeds International Festival as part of the 'Sex Tapes', Apples and Snakes' 'Deranged Poetesses' in 2019 and Coventry Cathedral's Plum Line Festival in 2018 ​She is a fierce dog lover and a confessed caffeine addict. ​

Dr Charley Barnes is an academic and author from the West Midlands,UK. She is the author of several poetry publications, including: A Z-hearted Guide to Heartache (V. Press, 2018); Body Talk (Picaroon Poetry, 2019); Hierarchy of Needs: A Retelling, co-authored with Claire Walker (V. Press, 2020), and Lore: Flowers, Folklore, and Footnotes (Black Pear Press, 2021). Charley has also authored three short fiction releases: Death Is A Terrible House Guest (The Black Light Engine Room Press, 2019); Burn The Witch (The Black Light Engine Room Press, 2020) and Go On A Road Trip (Wild Press Books, 2020). Under Charlotte Barnes, Charley writes crime fiction, including the titles: Intention; The Copycat; The Watcher; and The Cutter (Bloodhound Books, 2019-2021). She has had individual poems and fiction pieces published by the likes of Ink, Sweat and Tears, Riggwelter Press, and Bind Collective. Charley is the current Managing Director of Sabotage Reviews, the editor of Dear Reader, and a lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Wolverhampton. She has spoken and performed at events such as Verve Poetry Festival, Cheltenham Poetry Festival, and Tamworth Literature Festival, where she formed part of a panel to discuss the practicalities of publishing crime for a contemporary readership. Charley was the Worcestershire Poet Laureate 2019-2020. She is now the Writer-in-Residence for The Swan Theatre, Worcester, and their associated venues. When she isn't writing, she's likely drinking tea, eating cake, or walking her dog.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fly on the Wall Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913211533
• ISBN 13: 9781913211530
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 70
• Editor: Kenyon Isabelle Kenyon Isabelle