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Creating new possibilities in the publishing of fiction & poetry through a flexible, interdisciplinary approach & the production of unique & beautiful books.
We will soon be leaving this platform, along with so many others, and you'll find us on: 🔵Bluesky at @prototypepubs.bsky.social 📷Instagram @prototypepubs You can sign up to our mailing list at prototypepublishing.co.uk/about/contact/
So pleased that @niewview will be returning to @vocebooks in conversation with Sana Goyal in October: eventbrite.co.uk/e/jen-calleja-…
‘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 spiracleaudiobooks.com/articles/spotl…
Dogs welcome! The Uncorrected Independent Publishers Fair = "Unsponsored, Uncorrected, Independent!" Featuring: Book Works MakinaBooks @PressPeninsula @prototypepubs @TiltedAxisPress Rough Trade Books + Tangerine Press + @L13LIW "dishonesty box" Venue = @PeckhamPelican
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: fane.co.uk/kate-zambreno
Getting closerererer! 21st June, 11-6. Readings 2pm. Free entry, all welcome. THE UNCORRECTED INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS' FAIR Seven of the best indie publishers operating in these strange isles today! Unsponsored, uncorrected, independent!
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
'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 thebookseller.com/comment/mags-p…
Video of Sascha Akhtar performing at the @anthonyburgess last weekend @AkhtarSascha @prototypepubs youtu.be/bKiR-SrdirY
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. poetryschool.com/courses/interd…
⚡️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
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 prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/strang…
Huge congratulations to @sulaimanaddonia and all of the authors and publishers on the RSL Ondaatje Prize longlist!
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.
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.
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!
'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: tenementpress.com/Mountainish
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. tenementpress.com/Audible-Heat
Cover(s) reveal and pre-order for my next book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION out 29 May @prototypepubs (our fourth book together) prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/fair/
ALL ABOUT THE PRIZE! Calling writers of innovative fiction under 2k words! Prizes: €2000 or 1000€, residencies @civitellaitaly and (NEW) at DL in Madrid, manuscript assessment w/ @TLCUK, publication, salons, and more... desperateliterature.com/prize