Galley Beggar Press

Galley Beggar Press Galley Beggar Press - an old-fashioned publisher for the twenty-first century. Our aim is to be an old fashioned publisher for the 21st Century.

Galley beggar Press is a publishing company based in Norwich co-founded and directed by Eloise Millar and Sam Jordison. Old fashioned because we believe in the beauty of books and the printed word, in the importance of nurturing authors and paying serious attention to editing, and in the vital importance of art as well as commerce.

21st Century, not just because that’s where we are, but because w

e also believe in the fantastic potential of ebooks to reach new audiences, to spread our writers’ precious words around the world and to revive and revitalise books that would otherwise either be out of print or lost on the backlist.

“Two men sit at a small circular steel table. They have snuck in cans of lager and are drinking them, taking big gulps t...
09/10/2024

“Two men sit at a small circular steel table. They have snuck in cans of lager and are drinking them, taking big gulps that make loud sucking sounds when they take their mouths away. There is a pack of Benson & Hedges between them.”

Celebrating its tenth year – and with a roll-call of fantastic writers and past winners – the 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions.

While it is, we’re celebrating last year’s long- and shortlistees – including Max Lury, who last year won the prize with their magnificent story, ‘Santa Fe’.

You can read ‘Santa Fe’ here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-story-5-24

And our Q&A with XX here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/new-page-5

“Where to start? He felt like death. Sleep was impossible. Headaches were a daily event, and not only in the mornings. H...
06/10/2024

“Where to start? He felt like death. Sleep was impossible. Headaches were a daily event, and not only in the mornings. His bones squeaked and chafed.”

Celebrating its tenth year – and with a roll-call of fantastic writers and past winners – the 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions.

While it is, we’re celebrating last year’s long- and shortlistees – including Benjamin Wal, shortlisted for their story ‘Maintenance’.

You can read ‘Maintenance’ here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-story-19-24

And our Q&A with Benjamin here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-qa-wal-24

“Even that young, I knew, as clearly as the white patch on his skin where I’d struck him with a sparkler on Diwali, that...
02/10/2024

“Even that young, I knew, as clearly as the white patch on his skin where I’d struck him with a sparkler on Diwali, that we’d be the death of each other.”

Celebrating its tenth year – and with a roll-call of fantastic writers and past winners – the 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions.

While it is, we’re celebrating last year’s long- and shortlistees – including Mohini Singh, longlisted for their story ‘Seven, Eight, Nine’.

You can read ‘Seven, Eight, Nine’ here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-story-9-24

And our Q&A with Mohini here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-qa-singh-24

WRITERS! The 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions. Excellent judges, a multi-award-winning pub...
30/09/2024

WRITERS! The 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions.

Excellent judges, a multi-award-winning publisher, a stellar list of previous winners…

Prizes:
Winner £2500; shortlisted authors £200; longlisted authors £50 of book vouchers and a GBP 4-book subscription.

Judges:
Writers Clare Pollard and Mathilde Merouani, and journalist and literary critic Claire Armitstead.

For full details, head here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize/

“They thought of Brighton for the weekend. Used to be sleazy. They had both been unattached, for some time. But they did...
27/09/2024

“They thought of Brighton for the weekend. Used to be sleazy. They had both been unattached, for some time. But they didn’t want gentrification, they wanted somewhere stuck in the past: Western-super-Mare it would be.”

Celebrating its tenth year – and with a roll-call of fantastic writers and past winners – the 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions.

While it is, we’re celebrating last year’s long- and shortlistees – including Laurence Pritchard, longlisted for their story ‘Dirty Weekend’.

You can read ‘Dirty Weekend’ here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-story-8-24

And our Q&A with Laurence here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-qa-pritchard-24

“Nora’s favourite place on Portland is the quarry. It’s where she and Dolores used to have s*x when they were seventeen ...
24/09/2024

“Nora’s favourite place on Portland is the quarry. It’s where she and Dolores used to have s*x when they were seventeen and it was nineteen-seventy-two.”

Celebrating its tenth year – and with a roll-call of fantastic writers and past winners – the 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions.

While it is, we’re celebrating last year’s long- and shortlistees – including Ruby Opalka, longlisted for their story ‘Spume of the Mouth’.

You can read ‘Spume of the Mouth’ here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-story-7-24

And our Q&A with Ruby here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-qa-opalka-24

“One morning I awoke to a surprise: two neat pears in a dish next to the kitchen sink. Not mine. Conference pears, I tho...
20/09/2024

“One morning I awoke to a surprise: two neat pears in a dish next to the kitchen sink. Not mine. Conference pears, I thought, a roguish council.”

Celebrating its tenth year – and with a roll-call of fantastic writers and past winners – the 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions.

While it is, we’re celebrating last year’s long- and shortlistees – including Sarah Messerschmidt, shortlisted for their story ‘Twins’.

You can read ‘Twins’ here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-story-6-24

And our Q&A with Sarah here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-qa-messerschmit-24

The 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions. Excellent judges, a multi-award-winning publisher, a...
18/09/2024

The 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions.

Excellent judges, a multi-award-winning publisher, a stellar list of previous winners…

Prizes:
Winner £2500; shortlisted authors £200; longlisted authors £50 of book vouchers and a GBP 4-book subscription.

Judges:
Writers Clare Pollard and Mathilde Merouani, and journalist and literary critic Claire Armitstead.

For full details, including a number of low-earner free entries, head here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize/

“I slept with my mouth open. I know I did because 1. My throat was always dry and aching in the morning. 2. There was a ...
17/09/2024

“I slept with my mouth open. I know I did because 1. My throat was always dry and aching in the morning. 2. There was a ghost that lived on my tongue.”

Celebrating its tenth year – and with a roll-call of fantastic writers and past winners – the 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions.

While it is, we’re celebrating last year’s long- and shortlistees – including Rabia Kapoor, longlisted for their story ‘The Perils of Sleeping on Your Back’.

You can read ‘The Perils of Sleeping on Your Back’ here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-3-24

And our Q&A with Rabia here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/new-page-3

Happy Monday! And a very quick note to say that our much-loved critical reading class - hosted by Galley Beggar co-direc...
16/09/2024

Happy Monday! And a very quick note to say that our much-loved critical reading class - hosted by Galley Beggar co-director and Guardian journalist Sam Jordison - will be launching a new set of classes in October.

It's:

(i) full-to-bursting with an interesting and eclectic range of writers (Stephen King! Sylvia Townsend Warner! Paul Auster!);

(ii) will fill your autumn and winter evenings with excellent conversations and brilliant reading; and

(iii) there's still plenty of time to read the first book, before the class begins.

For full details, head to: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/school-critical-reading-critical-writing

“The first scene flickers onto screen. Colours of high summer watered down. Three little girls on a beach in a row. Bell...
13/09/2024

“The first scene flickers onto screen. Colours of high summer watered down. Three little girls on a beach in a row. Bella, Kit and Sydney.”

Celebrating its tenth year – and with a roll-call of fantastic writers and past winners – the 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions.

While it is, we’re celebrating last year’s long- and shortlistees – including Kate Lockwood Jefford, longlisted for their story ‘A Family Gathering’.

You can read ‘A Family Gathering’ here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-story-4-24

And our Q&A with Kate here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-qa-jefford-24

WRITERS! The 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions. Excellent judges, a multi-award-winning pub...
12/09/2024

WRITERS! The 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions.

Excellent judges, a multi-award-winning publisher, a stellar list of previous winners…

Prizes:
Winner £2500; shortlisted authors £200; longlisted authors £50 of book vouchers and a GBP 4-book subscription.

Judges:
Writers Clare Pollard and Mathilde Merouani, and journalist and literary critic Claire Armitstead.

For full details, including a number of low-earner free entries, head here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize/

Wait, what's this?! An early and MAGNIFICENT review for our author Mark Bowles and All My Precious Madness:"Elegant and ...
10/09/2024

Wait, what's this?! An early and MAGNIFICENT review for our author Mark Bowles
and All My Precious Madness:

"Elegant and darkly funny... A devastating satire on the way in which class, education and masculinity act as a kind of trap [... with an] unnervingly beautiful conclusion. All My Precious Madness is a strange, uncanny and engrossing creation."

Thank you so much, , and Jeremy Wikeley!

All My Precious Madness is available in all good bookshops from 26th September, and you can pre-order a copy here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-shop/all-my-precious-madness

“Vanessa was able to do this because she was a part-time personal trainer whose feats of flexibility and core strength r...
10/09/2024

“Vanessa was able to do this because she was a part-time personal trainer whose feats of flexibility and core strength received hundreds-of-thousands of TikTok views. She called herself a content creator. It was roughly a year since I was last able to secretly think this was a self-important term, because it was roughly a year since she started making more money than me.”

Celebrating its tenth year – and with a roll-call of fantastic writers and past winners – the 2024/25 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions.

While it is, we’re celebrating last year’s long- and shortlistees – including Will Hall, longlisted for their story ‘The Muffin Man’.

You can read ‘The Muffin Man’ here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-story-2-24

And our Q&A with Will here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-qa-hall-24

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