Cornwall Writers

09/10/2025

We're hosting our first poetry night on Friday 17th. We're really excited to try and provide a relaxed, intimate environment where peope will feel welcome to come and share poems they've written or poems they love.

04/10/2025

We are at the boohfair today with a table full of homegrown Hermitage books and a collection of Adult Fiction from some outstanding Cornish Authors, so pop by if you're at festival or

https://hermitagepress.co.uk/collections/hermitage-books

02/10/2025

Last one for today is the biennial adult novel prize to honour the much-loved double Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel.
The prize will focus on work in progress from unpublished writers, with the aim of offering the mentoring and financial support to assist the best of the next generation in finishing their work.

Entry will be online and will be open from 22nd September to 31st December 2025. The first of the biennial prizes will be awarded in early Spring 2026.

AM Heath are launching a biennial adult novel prize to honour the much-loved double Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel, who died in 2022. Hilary was a staunch supporter of countless first-time novelists, so the prize will focus on work in progress from unpublished writers, with the aim of off...

02/10/2025

Another window of opportunity...

Discoveries is completely free, and writers in the UK and Ireland are not required to have finished their novel to enter, but are instead invited to submit the opening of their novel in English (up to 10,000 words) along with a synopsis and a bit about them.

Discoveries 2026 is now open for entries, until 12 January 2026!

Discoveries is the Women’s Prize’s writer development programme designed to address the specific challenges that women face as writers.

02/10/2025

The submission window closing on the 16th October for debut work which amplifies underrepresented narratives, with particular focus on....

Working-class writers and narratives
Writers from marginalised communities - LGBTQ+, neurodiverse, Black, Asian, and diaspora voices in the UK
Stories addressing mental health

Is this you?? Then don't hesitate to send off your work...

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01/10/2025

For any short story writers out there....

It's an exciting day today for Hermitage Press and as we announce the launch of our first short story open call for a new anthology - Salt & Stone

Salt & Stone will be a short story anthology that seeks to capture the raw essence of Cornwall - its weathered coastlines, tight-knit communities, quiet storms, and enduring beauty. The title evokes contrast: the shifting, fluid nature of life (salt), and the hard, unmoving truths we carry (stone). Stories may be contemporary, historical, speculative, or surreal, but all must be rooted in the atmosphere of Cornwall and its emotional terrain.

We’re looking for fiction that explores what it means to endure: people shaped by isolation, erosion, tradition, change, or the power of place. Whether set by windswept harbours or within crumbling granite walls, these stories should feel grounded in Cornwall’s spirit, even when the setting isn’t literal - tales of people enduring, transforming, or confronting the forces that shape them. Interpret the theme broadly, but all submissions should feel emotionally or atmospherically grounded in Cornwall.

We're looking for a word count of 3,000–5,000 words and our submission window is only open until the end of the year 01st October - 31st December 2025

More details and a how to submit are on our blog post...
https://hermitagepress.co.uk/blogs/news/short-story-open-call

01/10/2025

If you haven't visited already, we've got a new home!

The grand merger with Hermitage has finally come to it's conclusion and a new website has been created with our very own directory of Cornish writers, who also have their stories housed in the vast Hermitage Press online bookshop and within the shop of Terrace Gallery Cornwall in , which in 2026 will become a dedicated bookshop/gallery...

https://hermitagepress.co.uk/collections/cornwall-writers

01/10/2025

Go on journey through time with Michael Rosen and Ed Vere with Out of This World, a poetry collection to make you laugh, smile and think. 💭

“I can dream myself back and back and back as far back as when I was seven or eight” from The Shloch

Read an extract of The Shloch 📖 https://bit.ly/3z1nEXF
Read Out of This World full collection 📔 https://amzn.to/4mgap8s

01/10/2025

As we head into the autumn, our Weekly Reads for this coming month will highlight short stories inspired by Cornwall, with interesting collections to dip into as the evenings get darker.

We begin with ‘Diving Belles’ by Lucy Wood. Across twelve stories, the author weaves the sea, land, people and the folklore of Cornwall into haunting yet modern tales. Cornish legends slip into everyday life with hopes, regrets and memories mixing with standing stones, wreckers’ lamps and giants.