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Run by women, for women: Website www.linen-press.com and Twitter https://twitter.com/LinenPressBooks Linen Press is small, new, bold and inspiring.

Run by women, for women, it publishes writers with innovative voices who inspire readers with their wisdom, integrity, distinctive style and beautifully crafted writing.

05/01/2026

Our author Jess Watts shared some lovely words about Linen Press and the importance of finding a publisher that is aligned with your voice. You can find The Sun-Room by Jess Watts on our website, and the link for the Writers&Artists Blog post down below:

https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/why-small-press-was-perfect-home-my-unconventional-debut

Hope you all have had a lovely start to 2026!

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12/12/2025

Here are some more wonderful words from writers Tony White and Shanta Acharya about Map of the Self by Mona Dash🫶🏻

This would make a wonderful present in time for Christmas✨

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10/12/2025

Linen Press is looking for engrossing, fast-paced, multi-layered fiction which explores issues relevant to women against social or historical backdrops. We publish complex novels, not stories about relationships or family sagas or romances. We want edgy and original. We want lyrical and spellbinding. We would love top-end crime and psychological thrillers. For comparisons on our list, check out Broken Horses, White Lies and Manual for a Decent Life. And I’ll say it again - we are looking for exceptional writing.

Romance and Family Sagas may be complex in terms of the relationships explored, but they tend to be quick reads that focus on a few individual characters in domestic contexts, and don’t explore wider, in depth themes such as identity and independence and our personal connections to place, to the past and to society. We’re looking for reflective, outspoken and experimental writing that reflects on what it is to be female.

Please don’t email Lynn Michell directly but follow the directions on our Submissions page on our website: www.linen-press.com, and add a note that you are responding to this call-out for fiction🫶🏻

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04/12/2025

Map of The Self by Mona Dash is a poignant poetry collection we believe you should make your next read, but don’t just take our word for it….

Bashabi Fraser and Yogesh Patel, both celebrated and reputed literary figures, offer wonderful insight into the collection. Capturing how Dash navigates identity, belonging, and human connection alongside the idea of how the self is made.

A perfect gift for loved ones or yourself this festive season✨ available on our website www.linen-press.com

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23/11/2025

We are so proud of our authors and poets, especially at Reading Poet’s Cafe. All are published with Linen Press and took to the stage to read from their own collections as well as their work within the anthology Look Away Now.

From left to right we have Kavita A. Jindal, Katherine Meehan, Reading Poet’s Cafe Vic Pickup, Reshma Ruia, Mona Dash, and Khadija Rouf.

Thank you to the wonderful ladies for braving Storm Claudia and showing up to support each other’s important writing. Linen Press wouldn’t be the same without you all!🫶🏻

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19/11/2025

Last week at the Poet’s Cafe in Reading, Kavita A. Jindal took to the stage to read her poem from Look Away Now. Alongside Jindal were the poets of The Whole Kahani, who were also guest speakers at the event. The Whole Kahani is a British fiction writers collective of South Asian origin formed in 2011 to give a new voice to British Asian Fiction.

The poem History Judges Us, Too Late For Our Times is a powerful poem, recording the feeling of rage and fatigue to history constantly repeating itself. Jindal captures the internal conflict of a person wanting to remain comfortable yet knowing that silence enables harm.

This is a thoughtful and quietly urgent poem, Look Away Now is an anthology of women’s voices that record a communal cry of disbelief, anguish and fear. Yet, amongst the sorrow, you will find hope and courage.

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06/11/2025

We had such a wonderful launch with Mona Dash for her new poetry book ‘Map Of The Self’🩷 Thank you to everyone who came along to celebrate the release, the book is available to purchase online at linen-press.com💐

Mona is an award-winning author with an illustrious publishing history based in London. Her work includes her memoir A Roll Of The Dice, a short story collection Let Us Look Elsewhere, a novel Untamed Heart and three collections of poetry, A Certain Way, Dawn Drops, and her recent Map Of The Self. Her work has been presented on BBC Radio 4, included in the Best British Short Stories 22, and published in more than thirty-five anthologies. She is represented by Portobello Literary. When Mona isn’t writing, she works as a business leader in AI for a global tech company.

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28/10/2025

We are excited to announce the launch of our newest poetry book Map Of The Self by Mona Dash🩷 Linen Press fans and poetry lovers are welcome to join Mona at her launch this Sunday 2nd November at The Devereux Pub, Temple, London from 3pm-5pm✨

In Map of the Self, Mona Dash traces the intricate landscapes of identity, belonging, and human connection with clarity, lyricism and emotional depth. Divided into two related parts, the first charts our inner terrain and explores memory, language, and the shifting borders of selfhood. In the second part, the poems examine how the self is shaped and reshaped in relation to others: in love and loss, in intimacy and estrangement, in family and society.

Whether navigating the dislocations of diaspora or the quiet revelations of everyday life, Dash writes with a voice that is both intimate and expansive. She invites the reader to walk alongside her, to pause at key moments along the way, and perhaps to locate and reimagine parts of her own story.

Available to purchase online at linen-press.com

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24/10/2025

We had our poetry anthology launch last night at the wonderful in Edinburgh, providing the perfect backdrop for Look Away Now🩷

Thank you to all those who attended, and a massive thank you to Regi Claire, Jess Richards, Sally Morgan, Carol McKay, Chris Baral, Lindsay Kellar-Madsen, and Constance Hills🫶🏻

Look Away Now is available to purchase in selected bookshops, and online at linen-press.com! All proceeds will go to Médecins Sans Frontières.

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06/10/2025

Kate Beales introduces us to the first chapter of her novel Broken Horses. Here we get a glimpse of the main character Georgie Carruthers after crossing the ocean to reach Southern Patagonia, forgetting her past and starting a new life on the island🐴✨

Broken Horses is available to order directly on Linen Press - www.linen-press.com

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03/10/2025

Submissions for Literary Fiction are wanted at Linen Press✨

We are looking for engrossing, fast-paced, multi-layered fiction which explores issues relevant to women against distinct social or historical backdrops. We publish complex novels, not stories about relationships or family sagas💐

Email your submissions to - [email protected]

www.linen-press.com

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10/09/2025

Look Away Now, our newest addition to Linen Press is a collection of harrowing but hopeful poems written by women.

Wars, genocide, famine and a melting planet have reduced some of us to a powerless silence. Others have found the courage and strength to clothe unbearably painful thoughts and emotions with words. Women poets, emergent and established, come together to write about their incredulity and fear.

It is an honour for Linen Press to have these wise voices in a single book. All profits will go to Médecins sans frontières, an international humanitarian charity providing medical aid to those in conflict zones, epidemics, and natural disasters.

Out 21st September 2025

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