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Galley Beggar Press

2 months

It's been another stellar year for the GBP Short Story Prize - and we're delighted to announce that the winner of the 2023/24 award is Max Lury and 'Santa Fe'. Congratulations Max! Please join us in raising a great cheer, and read 'Santa Fe' here:

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Galley Beggar Press

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8 years

There is no way that we would contribute to this list. I'd rather go to jail. It's Brexit that shames us. Not our friends around the world.

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4 years

Oh my god, people. No words.

Kate Thorpe

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4 years

@GalleyBeggars you’ve done it!

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4 years

Friends: Galley Beggar is facing the biggest crisis in its seven year history. You can read more about it by following the link - and we desperately need your help. Please support however you can (including RTing). We’d be so grateful.

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4 years

A man just knocked on our door and gave us two hundred and fifty pounds. People. Just - oh.

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7 months

We started reading a submission on Friday am - put everything aside to read it pm - did nothing but read read read Saturday (am, pm) - had a meeting with the author Sunday pm; made offer Sunday pm - offer accepted Monday am. (i) HOORAY! (ii) BLISS (iii) This novel is MIRACULOUS.

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Galley Beggar Press

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4 years

1/4 We're crazy tired and more than a little emotional. And we should probably get some sleep. For now, one last update from us: This morning, we woke up in a crisis. This evening, we're going to bed knowing that the company is safe - and that it's been saved, by YOU.

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Galley Beggar Press

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6 years

ATTENTION! From 26 March until 11 April, we'll be opening a submissions window. This is for female writers only (and in the hopes of redressing an imbalance in the number of women who submit to us). More details to come; until then, we need to get this message out, so please RT.

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6 years

Fuck Amazon prime day. Unfollow anyone tweeting their bullshit propaganda. Instead, here’s to unions, paying taxes, and a flourishing diverse publishing industry. Bring an end to zero hours contracts. Destroy the spyware gathering personal date in your home. Up yours Bezos.

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Galley Beggar Press

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4 years

We've gone from heartbroken to... wow... in the space of two hours. For the GoFundMe page, in a moment of wild optimism we've updated the limit to the full BP amount (40K). If we can keep going, it would mean the world. Either way, THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH.

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4 years

No respectable artist or art organisation should have anything to do with this degrading and morally reprehensible nonsense:

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Galley Beggar Press

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14 days

What does a book cost? Back in 2015 we ran some calculations to figure out what a book costs, what it sells for, and where the money goes. We've done the sums again - for 2023 -and you head here for some grim, but hopefully also interesting, reading:

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4 years

We’re happy to announce that we've been awarded an @ace_national emergency grant thanks to public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England. It means we can carry on - and keep on trying to put out books that matter. We’re very grateful.

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4 years

Friends: When we woke up this morning we thought we were going to have to announce the closure of Galley Beggar in the New Year. Now, thanks to you, almost three quarters has been recouped. We can't even begin to say how much this means to us.

Galley Beggar Press

@GalleyBeggars

4 years

We've gone from heartbroken to... wow... in the space of two hours. For the GoFundMe page, in a moment of wild optimism we've updated the limit to the full BP amount (40K). If we can keep going, it would mean the world. Either way, THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH.

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4 years

God. Thank you everyone. I wish I could reply to all your messages and thank everyone individually. It’s been an overwhelming hour or so. I can’t believe it. We may actually raise enough for the entire shortfall if this continues. Thank you.

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5 years

INTERVIEWER How much rewriting do you do? HEMINGWAY I rewrote the ending to Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. INTERVIEWER Was there some technical problem there? What was it that had stumped you? HEMINGWAY Getting the words right.

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4 years

Another fantastic outcome is that we will be going into @thebookerprizes in the New Year to put our heads together on how to make things easier for small presses in the future. They really want to help, and this is wonderful for us all.

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4 years

This is a tough development for all authors and publishers - and small presses. Tabletops are heaving, review spaces are vanishingly rare - so if you do pick up a new book by an indie author, and love it, please make all the noise you can. It will help!

Literary world overwhelmed by 600 books to be published on one day

Hundreds of titles will flood the market in September because of Covid. It’s bad news for minority authors, says former Booker prize judge

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

WRITERS! Our women-only submissions window is open. Hooray! We're excited! Please, please submit if you think your work is suitable (i.e., think carefully about our list and what sort of writing we publish) - and RT. We're very actively looking for thrilling new voices for 2021.

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4 years

One of the most amazing things about this day - apart from YOU - is that we were so worried, not just for ourselves but our author, who stood to lose the royalties she would have received on that payment. Now, she'll receive every single penny. ... We can't thank you enough.

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Galley Beggar Press

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6 years

CALLING EXCEPTIONAL WOMEN! From 26 March until 11 April we have opened a special submissions window for women writers only. (There has been overwhelming support so far; we'd be extremely grateful if you could RT and keep the momentum going!) Full details:

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4 years

This whole day has been humbling. We have about two thousand thank you messages to write. Also: I need gin.

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4 years

On a day that 600 books are published, we'd like to wish all authors, publishers and booksellers bon chance - and also, for our own dear indie community - start this thread as a way to highlight some of the wonderful autumn releases coming out from small presses /1

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6 years

Let us tell you a story: might take several tweets, and we might get into trouble (there's a reason for confidentiality clauses on discounts - its so booksellers like @WHSmith and @AmazonUK aren't held to account, and can get away with it).

Big Green Bookshop

@Biggreenbooks

6 years

This has to be stressed. Publishers being bullied into giving ridiculous discounts on books is so bad for the industry. It's bad for the author, the publisher and (of course) the shops that don't have the power or the wish to demand this.

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4 years

On a day of sad news, please join us to raise a mighty cheer for @GuardianBooks and the team behind it - @justine_jordan , @carmitstead , @siancain ... - who are such brilliant editors, as well as stalwart supporters of small presses and their writers.They are superstars, full-stop.

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2 years

In memory of our wonderful writer Uschi Gatward, 1972-2021: We are so sorry to have lost her and her remarkable talent.

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3 years

Terrific news in an email from @TheBookerPrizes and makes an enormous difference to small presses. A HUGE thank you from us. (Feel quite emotional.) All the cheers.

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4 years

Astonishing. As if class discrimination hadn't benefited these people for centuries. As if (most) state educated kids weren't up against a squeezed funding system which makes it so hard for them to flourish. Sorry, but: WANKERS.

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@GalleyBeggars

2 years

Harvard University have digitally archived Virginia Woolf's personal photo albums. Literally hours of joy; what an endeavour:

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7 months

This week, we've had seven parcels returned after (wrongly) *failing* electronic customs. This totals around £65 - and, over the year, a £3k+ loss to our income. ... We can't begin to say how catastrophic this is for a small company like ours. (Also: a direct result of Brexit.)

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@GalleyBeggars

4 years

Look out! Mordew proofs are on the way. We’re doing it. We’re printing it. We’re putting it out in August. Damn the virus. We hope and hope it gets the millions of readers it deserves - and brings them the delight they deserve.

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4 years

For our own sanity more than anything, here's a thread of Literary Dogs. We'll be adding to it through the day. Feel free to join in with your own. First up, here's Radclyffe Hall and a very handsome companion.

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@GalleyBeggars

4 years

We are still a European publisher. You can take it from our passports, but you can’t take it from our hearts.

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@GalleyBeggars

3 years

One year ago today, roundabout this time in the morning, we thought we might be ruined. But we were saved by the incredible kindness and generosity of hundreds of strangers (and friends!). We'll always be grateful. And it makes every book we publish mean even more. Thank you.

The Guardian

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4 years

Book People collapse plunges small publisher Galley Beggar into crisis

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4 years

July 4th! Please join us and raise a cheer for the 1 year publication anniversary of Ducks, Newburyport. ... Those of you who have read Ducks will know just why we love it, and @FictionAtelier , so very much. What a book. What a writer. How lucky we are, as publishers and readers.

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We've been quiet today. It's because we've wrapping books until our arms fall off (still at it; arms still here). But we haven't forgotten what you did. Those thank yous are coming, and we'll do everything to repay your faith in us. (Lump in my throat just thinking of yesterday.)

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4 years

Woke up realising that we missed our birthday this year (August 20). Eight years old! Eight years of wild adventure, Sticking It To The Man, amazing writers, booksellers, and readers - and so much fun. Here's to the next eight. Hooray!

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4 years

People, 950 books have been wrapped and sent. Took seven days and seven nights. I'm now going to drink some gin and read an Agatha Christie. (Thank you, readers! You're the best.)

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4 years

Literally sitting here sobbing, guys. Thank you.

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5 years

We love her. End of. #TheFactThat

The Goldsmiths Prize

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5 years

The fact that Lucy Ellmann just won the #GoldsmithsPrize2019 ! 🦆🦆🎉🎉

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Oh! Absolutely delighted to say that the amazing, wonderful @FictionAtelier and her novel Ducks, Newburyport have won this year's James Tait Black Prize for Fiction. All the applause! Lucy! Hooray! ... And what a shortlist. @edbookfest , @DGALitAgents #jamestaitblack

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5 years

Whenever I'm having a hectic day a work, I look at this corrected galley of Ulysses and think of Sylvia Beach.

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5 years

Today's the day! It's been an honour to see @FictionAtelier on @TheBookerPrizes shortlist, and with five other terrific writers. ... We love Lucy! We love Ducks, Newburyport! Please, please join us in wishing Lucy the best of luck, and a big cheer for everything she's achieved.

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3 years

Morning! We made a cake!

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5 years

His and hers swears at London Book Fair

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4 years

From now until the end of 2020 we'll be donating 15% of all direct orders to FareShare, the UK charity combining environmental awareness with tackling hunger and poverty. Find out more about it at . For a cracking book, head here:

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5 years

Once every year or so, eavesdropping pays real dividends. Today, on the bus, a woman with a soft voice: "You know what she's like; I told her not to get that machete. It's only a matter of time." (Temptation is to base an entire short story competition on this piece of dialogue.)

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3 months

Ah well that’s us fucked!

Arts Professional

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3 months

APNews: Arts Council England ( @ace_national ) has updated its policies, warning that "political statements" made by individuals linked to an organisation can cause "reputational risk", breaching funding agreements (1/5)

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4 years

This is really important. Shakespeare & Co revenues are down over 80%. Losing @Shakespeare_Co would be like losing the heart of the world. They need support. They’ve got loads of wonderful gifts in their shop. Not to mention All The Books:

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4 years

Writers! We'll make a proper song and dance about this on Monday - but for now, delighted to say that the 2020/21 GBP Short Story Prize is officially open. And with judges @KatyaTaylor , @fishersamuk and @GiantRatSumatra , it's going to be an amazing year:

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3 years

We’ve got five slightly damaged copies of Ducks, Newburyport. We don’t want to put them in the recycling bin. If you’ve been hankering to read it but can’t afford to buy a copy, drop us a line below. (Lucy will still receive royalties! Don’t worry.)

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4 years

This is amazing. Listen to the joy.

Holly Peppermint 🍬 @ Bald Austin Butler

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4 years

All of Manhattan is literally cheering in the street right now. We did it 🥺

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Um.

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And, lastly, the much talked about book I’m hoping to read over the Xmas period. Looking forward to it, but also slightly daunted...1000 pages, single sentence. 📚📚📚📚📚

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My childhood was riddled with abuse. Many *fathers*. One would beat us if we put the milk bottles out wrong. Another wouldn't let women speak at the dinner table. My sister, pushed down the stairs for being 10 mins late home. The misogyny on here, in national papers, please, STOP

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4 years

The Sun and their poison can fuck the fuck off. Instead of sharing their front page, let’s share the details for Refuge.

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3 years

Small Press Down! We've got Covid. Sam is calling it the Boris Variant. (Sympathy much appreciated. And Lemsip.)

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2 years

Overjoyed to say that Selby Wynn Schwartz is on the Booker Prize longlist - and with so many other brilliant authors and novels! We’re delighted that many more people will get to encounter After Sappho; and huge thanks to the judges… #bookerprize2022

The Booker Prizes

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2 years

We are delighted to announce the #BookerPrize2022 longlist! From debut novels to returning Booker Prize authors, find out more about the longlisted books and authors: @ShahidhaBari @hrcastor @amabanckou @mjohnharrison

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Today's the day: WE'RE TEN YEARS OLD! Can't quite believe it: how the time has rushed past; how much our amazing writers have achieved; all the support from booksellers, readers, reviewers (so, so many people...). Here's to another ten years, then another, and another. 1/3

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6 years

Just noticed this new rule for the @WomensPrize . Catastrophic for small publishers. £1000 isn't small change to us. (Our author won this prize a few years ago when we were even smaller. It would have been near impossible for us to enter with these rules.)

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3 years

How to decline an invitation.

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3 years

Morning! (Toddler just walked down the street and screamed: "It's all so FUCKED!" I love her.)

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5 years

Whoppeee! So happy. Well done Lucy. Thank you for all the tweets. We’re over the moon

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5 years

Bravo to the amazing, magnificent @FictionAtelier , who has been longlisted for this year's Booker Prize. Look at those books! And oh, Lucy! Our hearts...

The Booker Prizes

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5 years

The 2019 Booker Prize longlist has been announced. Watch what our judges had to say and read more here: #BookerPrize2019 #FinestFiction

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6 months

Sunday reading - and this is one of the greatest books I’ve ever read. Cruel, stripped back, almost unbearable - and extraordinary.

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5 years

Just - wow! From such a wonderful longlist, these six magnificent books... All the hoorays in the world for our wonderful, brilliant, marvellous, extraordinary @FictionAtelier

The Booker Prizes

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5 years

We are pleased to announce our #BookerPrize2019 shortlist. Watch what our judges had to say about the six selected books. #BookerPrize2019 #FinestFiction #BookLoversDay #shortlist #announcement

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Preti Taneja's 'awe-inspiring' reimagining of King Lear wins Desmond Elliott prize

We That Are Young, which reimagines King Lear in modern India, wins £10,000 award after early struggles to find a publisher

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Living room, Monday night. We’re going as fast as we can!

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4 years

Absolutely heartbreaking. For all of the Saturday supplements - but the Review? An essential, not to mention deeply loved, part of the UK's literary landscape. ... I cannot quite stress how much poorer we are without it.

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4/4 ... redirecting to wonderful initiatives like The Trussell Trust, in real need of funds and currently benefiting from a drive set up by our friends at @InfluxPress : . Thank you again. Here's to art - and to you!

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3 years

Completed the collection. (Printed as a four-part pamphlet because of Second World War paper shortages.) Love the Four Quartets; very pleased.

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6 years

We want to end the day with a heads up to those ace bookshops and individual booksellers who work so tirelessly to support smaller publishers. Please RT, add your own favourites, and here's just a few who we owe so much to - @Biggreenbooks , @Norwichbooks , @Shakespeare_Co ...

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5 years

We're away at the moment and will have to celebrate properly when we get back... But we want have just a little hip hip hooray because Galley Beggar is 7-years-old today. So proud of our little press, amazing supporters, mind-blowing authors. Yay! #StickingItToTheManSince2012 .

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5 years

In a trampoline park with Polly and her friend - and there's a teenager behind me to die for. Teenager 1: My dad said he's going to get my mum a new hoover for her birthday. Teenager 2: Sounds like the only thing your mum needs is a divorce.

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The GBP Short Story Prize 2023/24 will open to submissions tomorrow - and while we wait, we're delighted to say that, this year, we'll be joined by four fabulous judges: Alex Clark, Chigozie Obioma, Tomiwa Owolade, and Susan Tomaselli. ... What a line up! (Let the fun begin.)

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3 years

We've just had a fucking great idea and we're going to do it. That's all you're getting for now. (The End.)

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4 years

Mordew! Out in August!

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3 years

Wrap 800 books - take dog for a walk - fall over - break arm - wait for morphine in A&E. (Clearly I’m after loads of sympathy but also: NHS - heroes. Everyone has been so kind.)

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4 years

Wonderful news to share: We've just signed a two-book deal with @alexpheby for Malarkoi and Waterblack - the second and third books in the Mordew trilogy. Hoorays all round! We're absolutely delighted - and hope readers will be, too.

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3 years

Morning.

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5 years

If we were to crowdfund a climate crisis anthology, with passionate voices and (if we can make crazy publishing sums work) a % of the proceeds going to Extinction Rebellion - who here would sponsor such a work? (Would love to but need to see if it's possible... Hence feelers.)

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Ducks, Newburyport has won the Swedish Kulturhuset Stadsteatern's International Literature Prize 2023 - bravo to our brilliant Lucy Ellmann! And her amazing translator, Eva Åsefeldt:

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5 years

What a journey. And oh lord, my nerves.

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2 years

We've been keeping this under our hats all week - but absolutely delighted to share that we'll be publishing the amazing @meenakandasamy , and The Book of Desire, in January 2023. The best Christmas present we've ever had! @turnarounduk @DGALitAgents

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He’s talking about our friends and neighbours. Our families. People we love and who love us. People who have paid into our state for decades, given us expertise, ideas, art, fun and years of hard work. He wants to tear our hearts out and leave us as hateful and empty as himself.

The Times and The Sunday Times

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4 years

EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum campaign.

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We're delighted to announce that the winner of the 2020/21 Short Story Prize is: Edward Hogan, 'Single Sit'.

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The destruction of the arts is just one of the side effects of being governed by soulless sociopathic criminals.

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4 years

Pals! Some crazy news for you: two weeks on from publishing @AlexPheby 's Mordew, and we need to do a reprint! The warehouse is down to the very last smatterings (from a very healthy run of 3k)... Wow! Oh lord. ... And: /1

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5 years

It's easy to think of publishers as impersonal office blocks somewhere or other, devoid of human emotion - but I can tell you, when we're getting ready to launch a book, we feel literally sick with anxiety. ... It's like letting your child walk to school alone for the first time.

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1 year

Galley Beggar post room almost finished - and definitely ready for a working day. (Our first dedicated room in ten years - a long time coming.) Hooray!

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4 years

We've got a little database going here of the best indie bookshops/booksellers in the country - will you help us add to it with some recommendations?

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2 years

Someone posted their beautiful Christmas cake the other day (stupidly took only a screenshot, and cannot now remember who) - and I loved it so much we’ve spent the afternoon painting our own version. Three hours of happiness.

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OK so we thought, if we're going to join the Smug Bread Baker's Club, we might as well go all out...

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5 years

Readers! DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT is available to buy direct from us. And for every copy sold we'll be donating £1 to the ACLU (specifically, their campaign to bring an end to the Trump administrations inhumane detention and deportation policies). Please RT!

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6 years

Please buy some books from us so that when people come round we can at least *pretend* to have a normal life

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3 years

I just bought a packet of tea (yeah, yeah: birthday present) from Fortnum and Masons - and the 'Title' section at checkout is a thing to behold.

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Galley Beggar Press

@GalleyBeggars

4 years

Friday pm! The week is almost done and a small detail to leave you with for the weekend: One of our writers has just submitted a new draft of something that is probs a masterpiece. Me and Sam both welled up on the first page. Jesus Christ. Watch out, 2022.

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Galley Beggar Press

@GalleyBeggars

2 years

Dionne Brand, Anne Carson, Carmen Maria Machado, Renee Gladman, Danielle Dutton, Saidiya Hartman, Lucy Ellmann and more - an absolute Dream Team of writers in Selby's Top 10 over at the Guardian. What a fantastic way to end the day:

Top 10 experimental feminist books

Bringing historical women to life, exploring mythical cities or telling a life through a 1,000-page internal monologue – these are form-breaking feminist books

www.theguardian.com

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Galley Beggar Press

@GalleyBeggars

3 years

We're delighted to say that we're going to be publishing @FictionAtelier 's collection of essays, THINGS ARE AGAINST US, on July 4th next year - exactly two years to the day from Ducks, Newburyport.

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Galley Beggar Press

@GalleyBeggars

4 years

OK! It's taken two days of legwork but - Look! EBOOKS! In the shop! They're all £2.50 (except Ducks, which is £3.50 - still a steal) and pretty much every single one has been longlisted, shortlisted or the winner of a literary award. THEY ARE AMAZING!

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Galley Beggar Press

@GalleyBeggars

5 years

1/2 Coming up for air after a wild night. So proud to be part of the Booker Prize shortlist and most of all Lucy and her ground-breaking novel. Long may it prosper - and three cheers from us to our amazing author, who not only pulled out all the stops, but pulled it off.

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Galley Beggar Press

@GalleyBeggars

4 years

The GBP Short Story Prize 2020/21 is open to submissions! With a £2000 first prize, three magnificent judges, and a stellar list of past winners, we're gearing up for another cracking year. For full details (including a number of free spots), head here:

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Galley Beggar Press

@GalleyBeggars

4 years

Cover reveal! Here's Mordew, coming out in August - the first in a fantasy trilogy from the wonderful @AlexPheby , illustrations by the incomparable @JamesNunnArt . ... We're so excited!

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