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.
The 2022/23 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize is open!
With three inspiring judges joining us - the writers Meena Kandasamy, Jarred McGinnis, and Jon McGregor - and stories rolling in, we're banking on another superb year...
For full information - inc. low-earner entries - head here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
We're delighted to say that the Galley Beggar Press 2022/23 Short Story Prize is open to submissions - with three truly terrific judges (Jarred McGinnis! Meena Kandasamy! Jon McGregor!), wonderful submissions arriving by the day, and low-earner entries still available, full details here:
http://galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the GBP 2021/22 Short Story Prize is 'Arrival', by Gurnaik Johal.
Congratulations, Gurnaik!
You can read our full announcement here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-202122-announcement
Gurnaik's winning story is here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/7-ssp-202122
And our interview with Gurnaik is here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/7-johal-3qs-ssp
Thank you so much to all the writers who submitted to this year's Prize; to our fantastic longlist- and shortlistees; and to our passionate, formidable judges Erica Wagner, John Self and Isha Karki.
The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize longlist, 2021/22:
Alex Aspden, ‘Jamboree’
Manish Chauhan, ‘The Tree Wife’
Wayne Connolly, ‘The Life and Sulphurous Death of Theo D.’
Conor Crummey, ‘The Good People’
Clare Fielder, ‘That More Dear Than Hand Or Tongue’
Katie Hale, ‘The Architect’
Gurnaik Johal, ‘Arrival’
Pragati K.B., ‘Appa and I’
Mathilde Merouani, ‘You and the Girls’
Danielle Vrublevskis, ‘Queen of Charm’
Full information, including an announcement from the judges and some additional special mentions, can be found at: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize.
Congratulations to all the writers who made this year's list, and thank you to everyone who entered and made it another special year.
In memory of our wonderful writer Uschi Gatward, 1972-2021. We are so sorry to have lost Uschi, and her remarkable talent: https://galleybeggar.co.uk/new-blog-1
Photograph credit: Peter Mallet
12 hours left to enter this year's GBP Short Story Prize!
£2000 to the winner, three exceptional judges, a publisher with authors recognised by over 20 of the world's best literary awards (from the Booker Prize to the Goldsmiths...). Get your skates on! http://galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Writers! Just over 48 hours to enter the 2021/22 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize...
.. £2000 to the winner, three brilliant judges, a multi-award-winning publisher - and a host of fantastic past winners and finalists.
Further information here: http://galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Just five days left to enter this year's GBP Short Story Prize! With a £2000 first prize, three stellar judges (, , ) and six extraordinary past winners, we really can't wait to get reading. More details here: https://galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
"My name is FUKEEN LOSER. I am T**T years old. I need forgiveness for: F**K S**T UP"
The 2021/22 GBP Short Story Prize is open to submissions – and while it is, we’ll be celebrating last year’s finalists. Here’s Emma Devlin, with the gloriously subversive ‘Charisma’: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/new-page-91
For more information on the prize, and how to enter, head here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
The 2021/22 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions – and while it is, we’ll be celebrating last year’s finalists. Today, meet Gordon Collins, with his wonderful, dystopian ‘Ezanthus and the Nation’: https://galleybeggar.co.uk/new-page-55
For more information on the prize, and how to enter, head here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
The 2021/22 GBP Short Story Prize is open to submissions – and while it is, we’ll be celebrating last year’s finalists. Today, here’s Marcus Cheetham, offering a whole new way to look at belly button fluff with his longlisted story, ‘Piers’ Problem’: https://galleybeggar.co.uk/new-page-79
For more information on the prize, and how to enter, head here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
The 2021/22 GBP Short Story Prize is currently open to submissions – and while it is, we’ll be celebrating last year’s wonderful list of finalists. Kicking off, Sheila Armstrong, longlisted for her brutal and unsparing story, ‘Red Market’: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/ssp-2021-armstrong-red-market
For more information on the prize, and how to enter, head here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize is now open to submissions. For further information, including a number of low-earner free entries, head to: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Hephzibah Anderson with a fantastic first review for Lucy Ellmann’s Things Are Against Us in The Observer: “Joyously eclectic… She’s out to foment revolution, and this book is nothing less than a manifesto.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/28/things-are-against-us-by-lucy-ellmann-review-essays
The novelist rails against everything from Agatha Christie to the US Capitol attack – and, above all, men – in her joyously eclectic essay collection
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"An impressive, uncompromising performance... [Insignificance] gives the inner reality of blue-collar life a respect and attention it rarely gets."
Phil Baker and a great little review for James Clammer and Insignificance in The Sunday Times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fiction-picks-new-novels-by-james-clammer-damon-galgut-and-sam-riviere-dx56zstfs
Insignificance by James ClammerGalley Beggar £9.99 pp168Life is not going well for plumber Joe Forbes, tentatively back at work after a breakdown. His good-hear
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