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A longer journey to publication

July 30, 2020 , posted in BLOG
It worries me that the literary world continues to turn away from talented older writers while young authors, especially young first-time authors, are sought out and celebrated.
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May We Borrow Your Country – One Year On

January 17, 2020 , posted in BLOG
In January 2019 The Whole Kahani released May We Borrow Your Country to a packed hall at Waterstones Gower Street. Our first reviewer, Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone wrote: ‘…while these stories might suggest a readership because of their authorship, the collection is exactly about fighting against such easy assumptions…These stories are part of the whole story and as such essential reading for everyone.’ Those are exactly our thoughts. We are grateful to the literary festivals that gave us a platform [...]
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Going in with flowers

July 10, 2019 , posted in NEWS
Avril Joy is no stranger to quiet but significant achievement. In her previous life, she worked for twenty-five years as a teacher and then Senior Manager in HM Low Newton, County Durham, and was awarded a Butler Trust Travel Award for ‘outstanding contribution to prison care.’
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Selling a book is a roll of the dice

June 5, 2019 , posted in BLOG
"I’m so excited! My book came in the post this morning1. I’m holding it in my hands. The cover is gorgeous." A small indie press talks to a ‘little known Asian author.’
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The Whole Kahani – our journey until now

April 17, 2019 , posted in BLOG
The Whole Kahani is in a celebratory mood. The writing collective has just been nominated and shortlisted for the 2019 Saboteur awards for our second anthology of short stories and poetry, May We Borrow Your Country.
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Baby, you hold on, and I will hold on…

April 17, 2019 , posted in NEWS
Mona Dash's first child is born with SCID (Severe Combined Immuno-Deficiency) for which there is no treatment in his country. And so begins her roller-coaster journey which spans ten years, takes her from India to London, and involves her in the complexities of genetic medicine.
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May We Borrow Your Country

January 7, 2019 , posted in BLOG
With only a fortnight to the launch of May We Borrow Your Country, the new anthology from The Whole Kahani (TWK) collective, I’m being asked more frequently about the title and having more discussions about its wider interpretations.
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Linen Press – a new venture twice over

October 9, 2018 , posted in NEWS
We have branched out with a flourish. Adding to our list of novels and memoirs, this is the first book of short-form writing to be published by Linen Press as well as the first book written by an established collective of writers.
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The Missing List

July 11, 2018 , posted in NEWS
NEIL I wanted so desperately to do full justice to your words, Clare, whilst creating something eye-catching. Within the stop-frame rectangle I introduced some mauve that may, or may not, be a glimpsed landscape. This seemed to add to the flickering mystery; that sense of something tantalisingly tangible, but just out of reach. The new colouring and forms for ‘Clare Best’ and ‘a memoir’ have done something wonderful to the mauve rectangle: it fizzes now like a dishwasher tablet [...]
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The Rich People’s Prize

March 19, 2018 , posted in BLOG
‘You have a set of literary Russian dolls with some authors forever hidden in the last, tiniest one because they can’t meet the conditions that would confer advantage.’ Last year, Linen Press author, Avril Joy, won The People’s Prize Best Achievement Prize. This year, I’m withdrawing three good candidates because The People’s Prize, now ironically named, has joined other awards in charging a hefty sum for entry. Avril Joy won the award for her mesmerising portrayal of a 1930’s river [...]
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Linen Press acquires The Red Beach Hut and Run Alice Run

March 19, 2018 , posted in NEWS
Linen Press has acquired all rights for Run, Alice, Run and The Red Beach Hut from Inspired Quill. They were published in 2015 and 2017 respectively.
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A revolving door of interns

February 28, 2018 , posted in BLOG
Linen Press is a one woman band run for the past ten years pretty much single-handed so the interns who pass through the revolving doors of our tiny women’s press are invaluable. They bring their interest in social media, fresh perspectives, up-to-date skills, youthful energy. I love working alongside them and without their input and support, we could well grind to a halt.
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Linen Press is delighted to have signed Clare Best to its list

February 26, 2018 , posted in NEWS
Clare’s memoir, The Missing List, is poised at the approaching death of a father who may never acknowledge or resolve family secrets that brought her untold distress in her childhood and into her adult life.
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Submissions: a policy of inclusion for authors from all backgrounds

February 7, 2018 , posted in BLOG
A question I’m often asked by well meaning people is what do I mean when I talk about the working class, as if I could sum up everything that this label means.
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Ali Bacon: “A Lot of Linen Going On”

October 31, 2017 , posted in BLOG
Linen Press's newest signing Ali Bacon shares her experience of returning to her home town of Dunfermline , a town once famed — quite fittingly — for its linen industry.
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Red Beach Hut Day

October 9, 2017 , posted in NEWS
October 4th was publication day, after a long two year wait in the publisher queue, for Lynn Michell’s third novel, The Red Beach Hut. Over on her blog, she talks about her reluctance to let it go and her nerves as it goes on display to both kind and critical eyes.
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Lynn Michell on literary prizes in The Bookseller

September 14, 2017 , posted in NEWS
Lynn wrote a guest blog for The Bookseller, arguing that prizes should support authors and presses, not charge them for participating.
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Ali Bacon: “I agree with Lynn”

September 14, 2017 , posted in BLOG
Ali Bacon writes about her relief at having someone looking over her shoulder as she works on the final draft of her historical novel In the Blink of an Eye, to be published by Linen Press early next year
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Linen Press signs Ali Bacon’s In the Blink of an Eye

July 20, 2017 , posted in NEWS
We are excited that Ali Bacon has joined our list of talented authors. Ali is known as a writer and blogger with her website Between the Lines and has been reviewing Linen Press books for quite some time. Ali has followed her first novel, Kettle of Fish, with a work of historical fiction set in Scotland.
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Guest blog: Avril Joy on 10 things writers should stop doing

July 12, 2017 , posted in BLOG
Here are 10 things we should stop doing as writers, especially if we want to reach our true creative potential and enjoy what we do. I confess I’ve done them all.
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