And the winners are...

🏆 Naomi Booth wins the Readers' Prize for her story 'Sour Hall'

🏆 Bernie McGill wins the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2023 for her collection THIS TRAIN IS FOR

Find out more here: lrb.me/fk3

pru rowlandson Granta Books Profile Books Leon Craig ayesha manazir siddiqi Sally Magnusson Saskia Vogel Best creeped-me-right-out: Seven Empty Houses
Best queer horror: Eyes Guts Throat Bones
Best modern ghosts: Night Side of the River
Best bloody poetry: Blood & Cord
Best queer essays: It Came From the Closet
Best non-fiction that fully blew my mind: Matrescence

Great review here for Blood & Cord #parenthood The Emma Press
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Delighted that my Animals are amongst these brilliant collections! Thank you Edge Hill Prize. And Ty to dream team Dead Ink Books , Ella Chappell, Dan Coxon, Sabhbh Curran 🐰🖤

Some news!! I passed my viva yesterday.

I am truly grateful for my incredible supervisors Jean McNeil KarenSchaller - thank you for everything. And very big thanks also to my examiners Julia Bell Abi Curtis for making it so enjoyable & reading my thesis w such care

Enormous congratulations to Daisy Hildyard - a fantastic writer! If you liked Emergency, we're delighted to have a brilliant new short story of Daisy's in our new anthology Blood & Cord edited by Abi Curtis theemmapress.com/shop/prose/sho…

🎉GIVEAWAY TIME 🎉

We're so excited to share that we've partnered with @thestorygraphto host a giveaway of our latest book BLOOD & CORD edited by Abi Curtis.

Enter here: app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/96d9…

Can't wait that long? Order a copy here: theemmapress.com/shop/prose/sho…

The Republic of Parenthood.

Join us on Friday, July 7 📅 for this incredible one day symposium, exploring how parental experience can be an impetus to art and writing, and rearticulated through them.⬇️
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Good to be part of last night’s launch. I loved hearing everyone’s powerful words. Thank you Abi Curtis The Emma Press for providing space for such honesty.

‘Blood and Cord’ is out now theemmapress.com/shop/prose/sho…

Rebecca Goss Abi Curtis The Emma Press Such powerful, courageous, honest and tender readings at the launch of Blood and Cord. A privilege to listen to these wonderful writers. ♥️

Published today - Blood and Cord: Writers on Early Parenthood 🍼 🫠 Find out more and book onto our launch via the Emma Press newsletter- mailchi.mp/theemmapress/t…

Hyped to be listening to Abi Curtis @Janinebradders Naomi Booth and other brilliant writers read their pieces from this amazing collection!

It's almost time... We are SO excited to be celebrating the launch of BLOOD & CORD 🩸on FRIDAY, 19th May. Come and join us!

RSVP below! And don't forget to pre-order your copy.✨

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Come join us via Zoom for the launch of BLOOD&CORD! Tomorrow! Feat. the brilliant @Janinebradders Rebecca Goss Rachel Bower and edited by Abi Curtis, who'll be talking about the making of this collection.

A great job opportunity:

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Read and listen to a new poem by Abi Curtis live now in Issue 11

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Blog post on editing Blood & Cord : Writers on Early Parenthood. #parenthood #babyloss #motherhood #fatherhood #newborn

I have poems in this lovely anthology on early parenthood edited by the beautiful and brilliant Abi Curtis

Exciting book post! Thrilled to be part of this beautiful new anthology edited by Abi Curtis feat loads of brilliant writers incl. Rebecca Goss Liz Berry Naomi Booth & many more! Available to pre-order now The Emma Press theemmapress.com/shop/prose/sho…