Honno Press

09/10/2025

Just one week to go until the publication of Witsh by Mari Ellis Dunning.

Set in sixteenth century Wales, amid the relentless rain and failing crops, midwife Sara Gwen is accused of witchcraft and her neighbours turn against her. Through the eyes of Doli Maredudd, a naïve gentry woman, Dunning weaves a dark tale of suspicion and fear.

Inspired by largely unknown Welsh witchcraft history, Dunning has nurtured a magical novel rooted in tradition and realism, creating a tale rich with bold feminism that will captivate readers of “witcherature” fiction.

'Mari Ellis Dunning’s latest novel is a triumph of historical fiction; atmospheric, lyrical and fiercely resonant ... Dunning’s poetic brilliance shines through, bringing the narrative to life with language that is both haunting and beautiful.' Natalie Holborrow

05/10/2025

We're up for a prize! We're very pleased to announce we have been shortlisted for the Creative Arts & Literature Award at this year’s Menter Aberystwyth Awards.

Thank you to Menter Aberystwyth for recognising the work we do. Good luck to all the nominees!

03/10/2025

Honno Welsh Women’s Press is looking for a Sales, Marketing and Business Officer. This is a four day a week job, managing sales and marketing for our books, as well as budgets and funding.

Mae Honno Gwasg Menywod Cymru yn chwilio am Swyddog Gwerthiant, Marchnata a Busnes. Swydd pedwar diwrnod yr wythnos yw hon ar gyfer rheoli gwerthiant a marchnata llyfrau, ynghyd â chyllidebau a grantiau.

Honno Welsh Women’s Press is an independent cooperative managed by a volunteer committee. We publish nine books a year, fiction and non-fiction, by women from Wales. We are committed to producing quality books and are an equal opportunities employer.

Cwmni cydweithredol annibynnol yw Honno Gwasg Menywod Cymru a reolir gan bwyllgor gwirfoddol. Rydym yn cyhoeddi naw llyfr y flwyddyn, ar ffurf ffuglen a ffeithiol greadigol, gan fenywod o Gymru. Rydym wedi ymrwymo i gynhyrchu llyfrau o safon ac rydym yn gyflogwr cyfle cyfartal.

https://www.honno.co.uk/articles

For more information and the job description please email [email protected]

Am ragor o wybodaeth a swydd-ddisgrifiad, cysylltwch â [email protected]

19/09/2025

Congratulations to on being shortlisted for the for One Woman Walks Europe. We’re so chuffed for you and your fellow nominees. 👏🏼

18/09/2025

Born to the Land, Bound to Defy it

Cerys Steadman was born to protect the land. Bound by magic and a bloodline rooted in tradition, she guards her gift, walking the line between duty and defiance until the omens begin…

A new voice in Welsh fantasy

‘A striking example of how women have the power to challenge and reject the roles and duties a society expects of them.’ Gemma June Howell

Killing Hares by E. M. Duffield-Fuller
Coming January 2026

Will you heed the call?
Share the cover. Pre-order now https://www.waterstones.com/book/killing-hares/e-m-duffield-fuller//9781916821415

17/09/2025

Thank you Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru / Books Council of Wales for making Sue Mccormick's Red as any Blood Book of the Month for September.

📚Red as any Blood by Sue McCormick is our Book of the Month.

📚1950: Actress Dame Elspeth Hollanby (Holly) and her dresser Ivy are heading to Black Gairy, a remote mansion in the Galloway Forest, for a reunion with old theatre friends, and Holly is determined that young widow Ivy has some much needed fun.

📚When storms hit the house the reunion is snowed in, the phone lines are down, and one of the guests is a murderer.

📚In a house brimming with secrets it’s up to Holly and Ivy to uncover the dramatic truth...

📚Available now from your local bookshop.



📚Red as any Blood gan Sue McCormick yw Llyfr Saesneg y Mis.

📚1950: Mae'r actores Dame Elspeth Hollanby (Holly) a'i gwisgwraig Ivy yn mynd i Black Gairy, plasty anghysbell yng Nghoedwig Galloway, i aduniad gyda hen ffrindiau theatr, ac mae Holly yn benderfynol bod y weddw ifanc Ivy yn mynd i gael hwyl!

📚Pan fydd stormydd yn taro'r tŷ mae criw'r aduniad yn sownd yn yr eira, mae'r llinellau ffôn i lawr, ac mae un o'r gwesteion yn llofrudd.

📚Mewn tŷ sy'n llawn cyfrinachau, mae'n rhaid i Holly ac Ivy ddatgelu'r gwir dramatig...

📚Ar gael nawr o'ch siop lyfrau leol.

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16/09/2025

Delighted to see and are two of the many fantastic contributors to the next issue of @.

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15/09/2025

We're closing our submissions for a couple of months while we catch up on our reading.

We will reopen in November. Please check our website or watch this space for updates.

11/09/2025

Huge congratulations to Sue McCormick on the release of RED AS ANY BLOOD today, the first in the Holly and Ivy Mystery series, mixing 1950’s show business with the shadows left behind by the war.

Pick up your copy from your local bookshop or through the link in our bio.

1950. Actress Dame Elspeth Hollanby (Holly) and her dresser Ivy are heading to Black Gairy, a remote mansion in the Galloway Forest, for a reunion with old theatre friends. They are worried to hear that vicious press tycoon Sir Max Coyle has manipulated his way onto the guest list. Storms snow them in, the phone lines are down, and all too soon one of the guests is a murderer…

‘With writing so rich, dramatic and powerful, it’s a must read.’ Lucy Beaumont, comedian.

'Meet your new favourite cosy crime detective duo.’ Joanne Owen, LoveReading

September Book of the Month at Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru / Books Council of Wales

05/09/2025

📣📣📣 SIGNING ANNOUNCEMENT

Honno is delighted to announce the signing of The Wildness by Anne Keer, a novel that puts nature, and especially an old oak tree, at its heart. As poet, novelist and Booker Prize judge Ruth Padel says: ‘The world needs this book.’

As the Enlightenment dawns, Hannah Sentance finds herself increasingly disturbed by her husband Walter’s unyielding desire to transform the land around their estate into an elite Gentleman’s Park. Local people will be evicted, an old way of life lost and an ancient oak tree felled. A symbol of resistance, wildness and a young woman’s love affair with nature, the tree embodies Hannah’s struggle for a way of belonging. But how can she – and it – survive?

Will be loved by readers of Melissa Harrison’s All Among the Barley, Richard Powers’ The Overstory and Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent.

‘I am so thrilled that we have signed The Wildness; a remarkably unique novel which asks what it takes to resist – and to rewild – in a world shaped by control.’ Dr Gemma June Howell, editor of The Wildness.

Anne Keer lives on a hill in rural mid Wales where nature and the land have given shape to her ideas about the natural world. Previously she worked as a journalist in the Middle East, then in television documentary and drama for the BBC and Channel Four. Anne read History at Oxford and has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing from Aberystwyth University. She runs a small creative writing class and tries to give nature a bit of space on the land she and her partner look after.

www.annekeer.co.uk