Hermitage Press

08/11/2025

A few tickets left!

Stories from the Lost and Found: finding inspiration in objects and words from another moment in time.
Thu 27 Nov 2025 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

A fun and practical creative writing workshop where we will be playing with ideas for stories using different prompts and exploring use of language. This is a workshop for writers at every stage - whether you are just starting out or further along in your writing journey.

Nell Carroll Turner is a writer and performer who lives near Liskeard. Nell plays with language and dialogue and her writing is creative, poetic, absurd and often a bit wild. She particularly enjoys writing theatre scripts and short stories. Themes include diversity, belonging and nature, always with language play at the core. She loves collecting peoples’ stories, and writing tales based on fact but which swim wildly in the style of magic realism.

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thewritersblock/1807380

06/11/2025

The results are in! Our bookshop bestsellers for October include..

Morvoren: the poetry of sea swimming - by Ella Walsworth-Bell and various authors - Thirty-two poems exploring the magic and beauty of sea swimming in Cornwall.

Travelling in the Dark: by Emma Timpany - Set in the wild, beautiful, and unreliable landscape of southern New Zealand, this novella is an evocative story of a woman coming to terms with her past.

Cornish Folk Tales of Place: Traditional Stories from North and East Cornwall: by Anna Chorlton - In this book you’ll find tales of powerful mermaids, spiteful witches, crafty smugglers and woeful ghosts.

Cornwall In Short: A Collection of Cornish Writing by some amazing Contemporary Cornish Authors - This collection has ghosts and storms, love challenged and rewarded, triumphs and heartaches, ancient Cornish traditions, vivid characters, wild seas and lands and skies.

Find your favourite genre and more in our online bookshop...
https://hermitagepress.co.uk/collections/books

05/11/2025

03/11/2025

poetry is your obsession then we have a new title in the bookshop for you by Abigail Ottley.

Abigail writes poetry and short fiction. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she came second in the Plaza Prose poetry competition and has won the Wildfire 150 flash twice.

Out of Eden, her debut collection published in May 2025, is an energising, inspiring, hard hitting collection of over 100 pages of award winning poems which tell remarkable stories and parables of women's endurance which celebrate their fierce strength and resistance.

In this collection Abigail also captures the minutiae of working class life, the harsh lives of the marginalised and shifts in mother-daughter relations.

https://hermitagepress.co.uk/products/out-of-eden

31/10/2025

Independent bookshops are doing more than selling books — they’re helping to revive town centres, support local culture, and bring people together across the West Country.

From community-owned shops in Devon to artful spaces in Frome, these are the places keeping our high streets human.

Read the full story:
👉 https://www.westcountryjournal.com/post/the-heart-of-our-high-streets

31/10/2025

Only 62 days to go until our submission window closes....have you got a story for us?

Full details on how to submit your entry and join a whole host of who have already submitted some amazing short stories, are on our website...

https://hermitagepress.co.uk/blogs/news/short-story-open-call

29/10/2025

Check out our new paperback cover for 12 Stories for 12 Sections... can you spot the subtle differences???

28/10/2025

The new paperback version will be hot off the press soon, so watch this space for our announcement on our news page...

https://hermitagepress.co.uk/blogs/news

“She asked Blue to choose the location of the holiday they would take in it and Blue chose the town of Fowey in Cornwall, where she dreamt of making the acquaintance of Daphne du Maurier, whose stories she admired.”

Extract from The Incidents by Wyl Menmuir, part of 12 Stories for 12 Sections, an anthology of short stories inspired by Cornwall National Landscape. This story is set in Section 10 (South Coast Eastern) of Cornwall National Landscape.

Find out more about Section 10 here - https://bit.ly/43unLqn

📷: Illustration by James Innerdale

28/10/2025

Just in case you haven't already got something spooky for the weekend, we have the perfect solution...

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

27/10/2025

Our shelves are getting fuller and fuller with all the new books arriving in time for Christmas...

And if you know someone who needs to escape into a different landscape and culture, then Candi Miller's ambitious novels, Salt & Honey and Kalahari Passage - the culmination of years of research, transformed by the author's love for Southern Africa - these two books will make an ideal present....

https://hermitagepress.co.uk/products/salt-honey