Blue Press
@bluepresslit
Printed international literary magazine featuring work from debut authors. Submissions open | IG: @bluepresslit
We are so delighted to announce that the second issue of Blue Press will be released in 2 weeks, on the 31st of July We could not be more excited to publish work from the following debut authors:
Spotted in the @LRBbookshop! Looks like there’s only a couple of copies left, so Londoners, swing by the next time you’re at this iconic bookshop!
We have some very exciting news… We will be selling some copies of our magazine in a certain London bookshop and we are pinching ourselves! …stay tuned to find out where!!
We have some very exciting news… We will be selling some copies of our magazine in a certain London bookshop and we are pinching ourselves! …stay tuned to find out where!!
Just announced! The Artist by Lucy Steeds wins the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2025. An intoxicating tale of art, love and secrets set across a sun-drenched Provençal summer in 1920; find our gorgeous new edition with ribbon marker here: waterstones.com/book/the-artis… #WDFP
It’s time for the annual flip-through! This time, featuring the London skyline. We have work from the 23 best debut authors of the year in this issue, so don’t forget to mark your calendars for July 31st.
We’re so excited for the publication of @Marciathewriter’s debut The Mercy Step out with @CassavaRepublic When you inevitably fall in love with Mercy Hanson, check out Marcia’s short story in this year’s Blue Press for a slice of life with this extraordinary character
My debut solo novel The Mercy Step is out today 🎉 It's a tragi-comic coming of age story starting at year zero. #debutnovel #TheMercyStep #debutauthor #booktok #bookstagram #blackauthors
A while back, we asked 25 debut authors for their top piece of advice for getting published. Here's what the final 5 had to say... 🧵
"Blue Press welcomes pieces from authors debuting their work in the coming year. Self-publishing writers included. Show us your poetry, prose, essays, reviews, short stories and art." bluepress.uk/#submit #WritingCommunity
🔷 We are still accepting submissions for our second issue! 🔷 If you are a debut author, or a publisher of a debut author, contact us at [email protected] We pay our authors.
🔷 We are still accepting submissions for our second issue! 🔷 If you are a debut author, or a publisher of a debut author, contact us at [email protected] We pay our authors.
Les finalistes des Goncourt de printemps 2025 #premierroman #nouvelle #biographie 📚📚📚
Debut authors make up more than half of the 2025 @WomensPrize for Fiction longlist. The 2025 longlist also includes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout 👇 thebookseller.com/news/kaliane-b…
🔷Calling the debut authors of 2025 🔷 We are officially open for submissions for our 2025 issue. Send your best work to [email protected] No submission fees. We always pay our authors.
An incredible night! The energy at the @southbankcentre was unmatched. Best of luck to the wonderful poets for tomorrow. #tseliotprize
And that's a wrap for another year! Thanks to our poets, publishers, BSL interpreters and of course @IMcMillan! We'll see you tomorrow for the announcement of this year's winner! #tseliotprize
Fantastic reading from @gustav_parker’s wonderful debut collection with @bansheelit!
“I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to leave and yet somehow I’m back” - from High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett @tseliotprize @bansheelit > poetrybooks.co.uk/products/high-…
“Motherhood connects the three parts of the book: how I was mothered, how I have mothered, how nature mothers me now that I am beyond the years of fertility.” - @benedicta_be
New for November: an interview with Benedicta Norell @benedicta_be about her beautiful and important new poetry pamphlet, 'Terrible Mother', out now with @theblackcatpp - do read both! #poetrycommunity samszanto.com/post/benedicta…
“From the moment Kit Marlowe’s ghost stepped into my room, I knew I wanted to speak with him about queer existence,” writes @HessePhillips, author of LIGHTBORNE, in this original piece for @CrimeReads. 🕯️🪶 crimereads.com/christopher-ma…
TRVE CVLT, by Michael Bettendorf (@BeardedBetts) Heavy Metal. Horror. Choose Your Own Adventure. Bettendorf delivers on the promise of that amazing pitch and more in this wild gamebook from @TenebrousPress. →
Have you spotted these creatures our 2024 issue yet? 🔷 bluepress.uk/issue-2024/p/i…
Honored to have a portion of my novella in the gorgeous first issue @bluepresslit.