Announcing the Long Listed Proposals: August 2023 Call for Submissions
We are excited to announce the longlisted submissions from our August 2023 open call requesting poetry and prose pamphlets for adults and poetry & fiction for children.
Thank you to all the writers who submitted for trusting us with your work, and congratulations to the longlisted authors.
In this call we received over 500 submissions across genres which made the longlisting process especially challenging, and the achievement for each of the authors even greater.
Our newly established Birmingham Editorial Readers Group will be assisting our team to create a final shortlist and decide on the book/s The Emma Press will publish next. In the meantime, we’d like to celebrate the longlisted authors!
Longlisted Authors
Adrian Johnson, The Black Country GIANT
Twitter @Adrianj51513532 | Instagram @AdrianJohnson6834
Alyson Kissner, Prayer w/o Punctuation
Twitter @Alykissner | Instagram @Alykissner
Antony Huen, A Manual for Boys
Twitter @AntonyHuen | Instagram @AntonyHuen
Caitlin Stobie and Kharys Ateh Laue, The Smell of Blood and Other Stories
Twitter @CaitlinStobie | Instagram @Caitlinstobie
Chris Jenkins, Things we soothe with dock leaves
David Ball, a translation proposal of To Live in the World by François Migeot
Hanna Leliv, translation proposal of Коні та портрет мого дядька [Horses and My Uncle’s Portrait] by Valentyna Kyrylova
Blog hannaleliv.com
Hugh Dunkerley, The Moose in the Caboose
James McGrath, Word-Castles and other Mental Variations
Jessica Rushton, Bavarde
Instagram @Jrushty
Lewis Buxton, Mate Arias
Twitter @LewisBuxton93 | Instagram @Lewisbuxtonwriter
Luis Guzmán Valerio, translation proposal of Elusive Memory by José Alcántara Almánzar
Mark Ward, Masters
Ojo Taiye, Midnight Feast
Olena Ebel and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, translation proposal of Сніговий тепл [The Snow Warm] by Kateryna Babkina
Phoebe T, building
Twitter @pp_ph0ebe
Pratyusha Prakash, Glacial Voices
Twitter @nala_e_bulbul
Rachel Jeffcoat, Moult
Twitter @rachel_jeffcoat | Instagram @rachel__jeffcoat
Ramona Herdman, The Moss Cure
Twitter @ramonaherdman
Ruth Donnelly, translation proposal of Matilde by Carola Martínez Arroyo
Twitter @rudo151
Taylor Edwards, House in the Sky
Yana Ellis, translation proposal of Таралежите излизат през нощта [Hedgehogs come out at night] by Jordanka Beleva
Twitter @YanaEllis | Instagram @YanaEllis
Yerkezhan Berkembayeva, In a Heart Glow
Instagram @zhan_poetry
[Cover image from Eggenwise, by Andrea Davidson, illustrated by Amy Louise Evans]
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