Arachne Press

Kate Foley is a much published and respected poet with many awards to her name. This, her 8th collection is made from meeting, migration and marria...

The South Downs lie at the heart of this collection - the sunsets and huge skies, cliffs and fossils, fishing vessels and windmills, people and she...

Jeremy Dixon's first full poetry collection A VOICE COMING FROM THEN starts from his teenage suicide attempt and expands to encompass themes of bul...

November 2018 marks the centenary of the end of WWI. After all the commemorative works of art over the past four years, we felt it was important to...

On her twelfth birthday Brats father disappears. She waits, but he never comes back. When she goes looking she is laughed at, and her belongings st...

Stories and poems about leaving, and being left behind; or that take an unexpected turn, going completely off piste. From authors featured at The S...

Just as Neil Gaimans The Graveyard Book reworked Kiplings The Jungle Book for a modern audience with a liking for the supernatural, Devilskein &...

The Solstice Shorts Festival celebrates the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year with time themed stories poems and songs. 2017 saw the fe...

In the red corner: the muck, grit and harsh truths of life. In the blue corner: the beauty of the natural world and the vivid variety provided by i...

A showcase for authors Arachne Press has published previously in anthologies, giving a wider perspective on their writing. The collection as a whol...

POETRYJoy Howard has something to say in her poems about nature, and human nature, and about grief, and time, and memory. Her combination of tender...

Language has its own relationship to time. When Jennifer falls for Sam at his execution, she doesn't immediately realise that she can still find an...

Deliciously Twisted In the realms of fantasy, it is foolish to upset the wee folk. Downright dangerous to incur the curse of a witch. And above all...

While working in a well-known pharmacy chain, Jeremy Dixon found surprising inspiration. His poems were written on the ends of till rolls and smugg...

There is a double meaning in the title to this debut collection from Jane Aldous Jinn was her family nickname, and writing poetry feels like letti...

2015 marked the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and Arachne Press celebrated with an evening of stories, poetry and song on the subject of Liberty...

From the mean streets of Hackney to sleepy South London suburbs, from boho Bloomsbury to City wine bars, London Lies is a tour of the capital as yo...

Liars' League teams up with Arachne Press for a second outing bringing the freshness, wit, imagination and passion of their authors to a wider audi...

Ness Owen lives on Ynys Môn off the North Wales coast. This is her first collection, and is partly bilingual. The poems journey widely from family ...

The subject of Menopause is just beginning to break the barrier of taboo, and become a mainstream discussion point, but that discussion has until n...

The subject of Menopause is just beginning to break the barrier of taboo, and become a mainstream discussion point, but that discussion has until n...

This series of poems, based in post war Edinburgh, tell the story of Linda, fleeing with her 11 year old daughter from England and an abusive relat...

Originally published twenty years ago, the sixteen short stories in Mosaic of Air reflect and explore Lesbian life in the 1980s through myth, histo...