Job vacancy: Publishing Assistant
We are looking for a Publishing Assistant to join The Emma Press team. You will run the in-house publicity campaigns, post out webshop orders, and manage a range of operational and administrative responsibilities. This role requires organisational skills, personal time management skills, strong communication and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Writing Your EP Essay Collection Proposal – A Guide
This post gives some guidance on writing your proposal for our upcoming submissions period.
Lost City: From Detroit to Birmingham
Ten years ago I came across some haunting photographs of abandonment and ruin in Detroit. These were photos of unpeopled landscapes: schools, libraries, dentists, police stations, factories, theatres and ballrooms, all emptied out, as if some invisible apocalypse had breathed
Announcement of The Emma Press pamphlet poets of 2022
The Emma Press is delighted to announce the pamphlet poets of 2022, chosen from 413 submissions (from the 2019-2020 call for submissions). The selected poets were chosen by publisher and editor Emma Dai'an Wright, and the new pamphlets will all join
The Emma Press is relaunching our submissions program – first up, ESSAY COLLECTIONS
We'll start our new programme with a soft relaunch in June 2021. For this call we will be looking exclusively for essay collections, to continue our series that began with Nina Mingya Powles' Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in
Announcement of the EP pamphlet poets of 2021
I'm delighted to announce the pamphlet poets of 2021, chosen mostly from the 2019/20 call for submissions. I'll be announcing the 2022 poets next month, after I've had all my video calls with them, but for now I wanted to share with you the brilliant poets who will form my 2021 poetry pamphlet list.
Acquired: pandemic-themed children’s poetry debut
The Emma Press has acquired world rights to My Sneezes Are Perfect, the debut children's poetry collection by Rakhshan Rizwan, author of Kashmiri Life Narratives (Routledge, 2020) and Paisley (The Emma Press, 2017).
The Emma Press acquires rights to poetry debut by Atangana Bekono
The Emma Press has snapped up the debut poetry collection of Dutch author Simone Atangana Bekono.
