@arachnepress.bsky.social
Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, Welsh poets, and geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
@jftherapy.bsky.socialReposted by @arachnepress.bsky.socialCome to our 📖 launch Sunday 11th October at 3:00pm 🐅 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @arachnepress.bsky.social
"Poetry is an act of resistance, it gives us strength"
I'll be reading my first published poem!
Here's the 🔗 for 🎟 (they're free): www.outsavvy.com/event/39181/...
@rabgreen.bsky.socialReposted by @arachnepress.bsky.socialUP//ROAR Poems of Queer Resistance, an anthology from @arachnepress.bsky.social
Officially launched on October 11th, to coincide with International Coming Out Day, available for pre-order:
arachnepress.com/Up-Roar-p815...
#poetry #poetrysky #booksky #writingcommunity #nationalpoetryday
@arachnepress.bsky.socialFirst review for Up//Roar. Thanks, Emma!
@arachnepress.bsky.socialIn person launches @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social salon (stroud) 1st Oct @keatshouse1925.bsky.social 7/10 folkestone bookshop 23/10 @housmansbookshop.bsky.social 17/11 @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social (york) 20/11
links at arachnepress.com/events
@arachnepress.bsky.socialfabulous poem from Eve Xin for Up//Roar #Poems of #Queer #Resistance. Come to one of our launch events, pre-order the book, which is out for #comingoutday 11th Oct when we will be launching online at 3pm.
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
@arachnepress.bsky.socialwe are touring London, York, Brighton, Folkestone - would like to include Manchester, Liverpool and Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh and somewhere south of the river in London too, if anyone would like to host us. get in touch!
@arachnepress.bsky.socialWe are releasing videos in the run up to publication. We are printing postcards (should be with us around 21st Sep - let me, or your Inpress rep know if you would like some)
@arachnepress.bsky.social#booksellers! esp #UKBooksellers look at that catalogue from @inpressbooks with our beautiful sassy tiger at the bottom. That's the cover (by the talented @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social) for Up//Roar #Poems of #Queer #Resistance out 11th October #comingoutday (yes it's a Sunday)
@jeremydixonpoet.bsky.socialReposted by @arachnepress.bsky.social“you may be a worn out rainbow
but now is not the time to hide”
UP//ROAR: Poems of Queer Resistance! has arrived back from the printers! Thanks to all our wonderful contributing poets and to @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social for the cover illustration! Follow @arachnepress.bsky.social for launch details.
@arachnepress.bsky.socialand/or come to one of our events
October 1st Stroud www.dialect.org.uk/events/ipnoct
October 7th @keatshouse1925.bsky.social
October 11th Online
www.outsavvy.com/organiser/ar...
#queer #poetry #lgbtq+
@arachnepress.bsky.socialEditor Cherry Potts reading her poem Gratitude from UP//ROAR Poems of Queer Resistance.
pre-order your copy arachnepress.com/Up-Ro…https://arachnepress.com/Up-Roar-p815446085
#queer #poetry #lgbtq+
cover design by @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
@mxfrankduffy.bsky.socialReposted by @arachnepress.bsky.sociala little joy in the bleakness: @arachnepress.bsky.social's latest anthology of queer poems has arrived, with tiger illustration by yours truly on the cover
@rabgreen.bsky.socialReposted by @arachnepress.bsky.socialUP//ROAR Poems of Queer Resistance
Contributors copies have arrived ahead of the publication in October.
Pre-order with @arachnepress.bsky.social
arachnepress.com/Up-Roar-p815...
#poetry #poetrysky #queerpoetry #booksky #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #lgbt #lgbtqia
