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🔷The 2025 Issue is live!🔷
From big publishers to small presses, from novels to poetry collections, discover the greatest debuts of the year in 126 pages of an illustrated magazine.
Keep print alive! Shop the issue online now, and in select bookshops.
bluepress.uk/issue-2025/p/is…
Want to review debut literary fiction? Email us an introduction, your reading preferences, and a writing sample to join.
Did you catch ‘La Chimera’? Yes or no, you’ll not want to miss Lehmann’s ‘Ghazal for Josh O’Connor in La Chimera’ in our 2025 issue. Link in bio 🔹
Are you a 2026 debut author?
Submissions are now open, so send your best work to [email protected]
No fees. We always pay our authors. Visit bluepress.uk for more.
🔹Have you seen the latest piece on our website?🔹
THIRST by Sophie Madeline Dess is claustrophobic and tautly written, amplifying the discomfort and pain of birthday nostalgia to offer an intimate and unfiltered insight into the narrator’s big day.
bluepress.uk/blog/thirst
🔷We have a new piece by @ToosieWatson live on our website 🔷
THE OBSESSION TO BE GOOD presents Toosie-Watson in all their raw, visceral honesty we know and love. Dive in to read about childhood, memory and the divine. 🦎
bluepress.uk/blog/the-obsess…
We’re delighted to be featuring two of Giovanni’s poems in our print issue. If you love Woolf and/or Proust, you’ll want to check these out…
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🔷The 2025 Issue is live!🔷
From big publishers to small presses, from novels to poetry collections, discover the greatest debuts of the year in 126 pages of an illustrated magazine.
Keep print alive! Shop the issue online now, and in select bookshops.
bluepress.uk/issue-2025/p/is…
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Just announced! The Artist by Lucy Steeds wins the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2025. An intoxicating tale of art, love and secrets set across a sun-drenched Provençal summer in 1920; find our gorgeous new edition with ribbon marker here: waterstones.com/book/the-art…
#WDFP
It’s time for the annual flip-through! This time, featuring the London skyline.
We have work from the 23 best debut authors of the year in this issue, so don’t forget to mark your calendars for July 31st.
We’re so excited for the publication of @Marciathewriter’s debut The Mercy Step out with @CassavaRepublic
When you inevitably fall in love with Mercy Hanson, check out Marcia’s short story in this year’s Blue Press for a slice of life with this extraordinary character
My debut solo novel The Mercy Step is out today 🎉
It's a tragi-comic coming of age story starting at year zero.
#debutnovel #TheMercyStep #debutauthor #booktok #bookstagram #blackauthors
We are so delighted to announce that the second issue of Blue Press will be released in 2 weeks, on the 31st of July
We could not be more excited to publish work from the following debut authors:
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A while back, we asked 25 debut authors for their top piece of advice for getting published. Here's what the final 5 had to say... 🧵
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"Blue Press welcomes pieces from authors debuting their work in the coming year. Self-publishing writers included. Show us your poetry, prose, essays, reviews, short stories and art."
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🔷 We are still accepting submissions for our second issue! 🔷
If you are a debut author, or a publisher of a debut author, contact us at [email protected]
We pay our authors.
🔷 We are still accepting submissions for our second issue! 🔷
If you are a debut author, or a publisher of a debut author, contact us at [email protected]
We pay our authors.
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Debut authors make up more than half of the 2025 @WomensPrize for Fiction longlist. The 2025 longlist also includes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Miranda July and Elizabeth Strout 👇 thebookseller.com/news/kalia…
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🔷Calling the debut authors of 2025 🔷
We are officially open for submissions for our 2025 issue.
Send your best work to [email protected]
No submission fees. We always pay our authors.
An incredible night! The energy at the @southbankcentre was unmatched. Best of luck to the wonderful poets for tomorrow. #tseliotprize
And that's a wrap for another year! Thanks to our poets, publishers, BSL interpreters and of course @IMcMillan! We'll see you tomorrow for the announcement of this year's winner! #tseliotprize
Fantastic reading from @gustav_parker’s wonderful debut collection with @bansheelit!
“I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to leave and yet somehow I’m back”
- from High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett @tseliotprize @bansheelit > poetrybooks.co.uk/products/h…
