Hermitage Press

14/09/2025

We're really looking forward to the Looe Festival of Words this year and hope to see you all at the Book Fair on the 4th of October where we'll be selling our 'Home-grown' books alongside some of our favourites from our new bookshop collection...

14/09/2025

It's fantastic to see this gorgeous little poetry book - Murmurations by - included in the ‘Something to Say’ exhibition of local writers curated by Tim Norman Theatrabilia in Liskeard...

11/09/2025

11/09/2025

“In the pasture ahead, new-growth May grass was pressed flat. Hawthorn flowers were scattered over it. She looked out beyond the lane, beyond the treetops in the steep valley. She could see the sea breaking white on the Dodman point”

Extract from Lone Cypress by Philip Marsden, part of 12 Stories for 12 Sections, an anthology of short stories inspired by Cornwall National Landscape. This story is set in Section 09 (South Coast Central) of Cornwall National Landscape.

Find out more about Section 09 here - https://bit.ly/4gLuNeR

📷: Illustration by James Innerdale

11/09/2025

Loving our new business cards...

04/09/2025

📣 Our retreat at Bonython from 28 September to 3 October has one room unexpectedly available. We'd love to fill it so are offering it now at a discount of just £840. Message us for details!

02/09/2025

Join us on Saturday 4th of October Looe Festival of Words booksellers fair to pick up one, two or more of the 146 amazing titles we carry in our niche Cornish Authors Bookshop....

24/08/2025

✍ Writers’ Hour is back in September!

Join London Writers' Salon at The Writers’ Block, Redruth on Sunday 14th and 28 September, 9:45am–12pm for a morning of focused writing in community. Two quiet writing sprints, tea, coffee & snacks included.

Bring your notebook, laptop or journal, and enjoy the power of writing together.

Tickets £8 via the link in bio (please ensure to follow the link to LWS website)

Hosted by author & poet Sirpa Walton, in partnership with London Writers’ Salon.

22/08/2025

The Moth Nature Writing Prize - open now - is our annual celebration of the art of nature writing.

It is awarded annually to unpublished pieces of prose or poetry which best combine exceptional literary merit with an exploration of the writers’ relationship with the natural world.

We're delighted to have Mark Cocker as this year's judge.

Open now, until 30th September.

🌾 bit.ly/mothnature25

21/08/2025

“Her heart quickens. Almost she can hear the thud of it over the sound of the sea washing against the side of the mount. A low hoot comes from the wood. The lights of Penzance twinkle far across the bay. It is not far back to the flat. A few minutes. But how will she find her way?”

Extract from Now is the time for us to rise from sleep by Cathy Rentzenbrink, part of 12 Stories for 12 Sections, an anthology of short stories inspired by Cornwall National Landscape. This story is set in Section 08 (South Coast Western) of Cornwall National Landscape.

Find out more about Section 08 here - https://bit.ly/45rSzcS

📷: Illustration by James Innerdale

17/08/2025

We are down at the today chilling out to some cool tunes and selling a few of our books alongside a selection from the , so drop in if you are in today and pick up some summer reading...

15/08/2025

Head down to the on Sunday 17th to fill up your bookshelves with some awesome books by local from the and