Yaffle Press

12/08/2024

If you're waiting for your copy of 'Last Dance' by Susan Castillo, thanks for your patience. We had a few changes to make to the book to make it perfect but they'll be here very soon. Then Susan needs to put her lipstick kiss on the copies in lieu of a signature and send them back to us to send to you. It'll be worth the wait , promise!
If you haven't ordered one and you'll like one, please pay £12 by PayPal to [email protected] or go to the website and the Yaffle's Nest page.

29/07/2024

It was a massive pleasure to speak to Adrian Salmon about poetry, music and many other topics on our Word Up! show on BCB Radio. You can listen to the programme, Adrian's words and his fabulous selection of music here:

BCB 106.6fm. Listen again to your favourite radio programmes.

21/07/2024

An update on the 'What we Inherit from Water'.

We are about to begin typesetting the anthology and will then send proofs to those poets with poems on the long list. Watch this space.

17/07/2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our Yaffle's Nest covers artist,
Nick Steel ❤️

17/07/2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our Yaffle's next covers artist, Nick Steel

17/07/2024

ANYTHING PROSE
Join me, Mark Connors, every Tuesday in August for a creative writing course that will get you writing prose!

Whether you’re writing a novel, a short story, flash fiction or memoir, bring your work to a safe, encouraging space for constructive feedback. Prompts and writing exercises will also help unlock your creativity.
£65 for the four sessions.
Email [email protected] Book your place today!
Places are limited.
The sessions will take place every Wednesday in August - 6.30 – 9 pm. Heart Centre, Bennett Road, Headingley. Leeds. LS6 3HN.
Email me at [email protected] to book your place today.

16/07/2024

I am going to order more copies of my collection 'A Small Goodbye at Dawn'. Should there be anyone who doesn't have a copy and would like one, you can order one by paying £10 by PayPal to [email protected]
I was going to change my name on it but I've decided to keep them as they are and become Connors with my new books.

12/07/2024

Some new publications up on here

There are 100 winning poems in this competition and they'll all be featured in our anthology 'What We Inherit From Water' which will be published in the next few months.

10/07/2024

If you'd like a copy of this lovely book we're just putting finishing touches to it and then it will be going off to print. You can order one by paying £10 by PayPal to [email protected]

01/07/2024

Available to pre-order from us at Yaffle's Nest.
£10 includes P&P by PayPal to [email protected]

28/06/2024

Get yours!

27/06/2024

If you'd like to pre-order this lovely book, please do so.
10 'kissed' 💋 copies available in lieu of a signed copy, first come, first served.
£10 by PayPal to [email protected]
Susan Castillo ❤️

24/06/2024

This lovely book is just about ready to go to print. Susan wanted a hopeful yellow and blue and our very clever Nick picked the shades from a sunrise.
Susan isn't able to sign any copies but she has decided to add a lipsticked kiss to the first twenty books she sells. 💋
She's also very kindly asked us to use the profits from her book to go towards Yaffle's Nest and the work we do. We are really grateful and it will be a wonderful legacy.
So, if you'd like a copy with a 💋, please pay £10 (includes p&p) by PayPal to [email protected]

You'll love this little book, I promise 💋

24/06/2024

Our 8th Yaffle's Nest publication is out now, by the wonderful Sheila Jacob, another graduate of our Pub Club, which guarantees publication at the end of our 30 weeks course (60 weeks for a collection). We have places available on our Wednesday afternoon group, which re-starts a week on Wednesday. Sign up while you can and get your debut pamphlet published in 2025 with one of the fastest growing publishers in the UK! Book your place in Yaffle's Nest! Places go quickly! Look out for details of Sheila's Zoom Launch soon!

19/06/2024

We are so pleased and proud to be publishing the new pamphlet from Susan Castillo Street. Available soon!

19/06/2024

Leeds and local poets. Don't forget to get your ticket for this!
https://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/news/archive/2024/international-symposium-to-conclude-two-year-research-project.php?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2xRfNTsng-qGilqi87tWwwT-dCKwrmEhonVI865qCZL_SM1-1fGlxHGwo_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw

Meet the team, from our Vice-Chancellor and Executive to our honorary Chancellor, Pro-Chancellors, and Board of Governors.

13/06/2024

join Yaffle's Nest for PUB CLUB, our guaranteed route into poetry publication via our focussed six week editing workshops. We'll publish your pamphlets within a year after five blocks of workshops and you can work towards collections also. We've helped scores of poets into publication in magazines and anthologies and competition successes. And now we are helping poets towards their pamphlet and collection debuts. We know what we're doing and we do it well. We've edited over forty books between us and we've won awards as poets, editors and publishers. We have places coming up on our Wednesday and Thursday afternoon courses and waiting lists for other sessions. DM us if you'd like to apply today. Don't take our word for it. I'm sure there are a few of our recent poets only too happy to provide a sentence or two to recommend us!

30/05/2024

Yaffle's Nest, our Yaffle imprint and workshop facilitator has places!
We run prompt led poetry writing workshops, editing classes, workshops on form and publishing and blocks of classes geared towards publication.
Get in touch if you're interested by emailing [email protected]
Or message us here.
We can't wait to work with you!
🐦,🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦

30/05/2024

Get started on the novel you've always wanted to write!

15/05/2024

A new Substack post. I have decide to add a paid subscriber option to my Substack, take a look and if you like what I write, consider subscribing to the paid option. It will support my work. Thanks xx

in history, fiction, and life

14/05/2024

Do you have a novel in you but don't know where to start? Then join experienced writing tutors and published novelists, Mark Connors and Rebecca Ryan from Yaffle's Nest for a full day course at Heart Centre in Headingley, Leeds, on Saturday 8th June and we'll help you get started. Both Mark and Rebecca have helped novelists get into print. Book now to avoid dissappointment! Please share!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/write-that-novel-tickets-901742174117?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1FFdcf1Jr55rAKQ2Btor6TwSD8CSHQmTlhZVopXsKxUQv3IhVIQmKvCrk_aem_AZ5mpF66uhOtlN0mogTDmwSyMkGd6Hgu_fpFAvWCFedTlcS-72ocMdz1kEo4x1XGTRYgLV-Gknbz6tVUUJuoaeGs

Get started on the novel you've always wanted to write!

07/05/2024

A new Substack post.

or think we do

30/04/2024

I have spaces on my water-themed month-long writing course starting tomorrow.
Every week you'll get a pack of prompts which you can use to stimulate your writing. There is no pressure to write every day and there'll be encouragement to get near or in water if you can.
entry to a private facebook group and a free Zoom workshop.
£40.00 or PAYF for unwaged or in receipt of benefits

email to sign up :
[email protected]

30/04/2024

Hello to all our new followers.
We have spaces in both Wednesday and Sunday Morning Wordship which is a two hour workshop where we take a word, discuss it, look at its etymology and its use in three poems and then we send you off to write a poem. After 40 minutes you come back and share what you've written (if you want to - no pressure) It's a fun and friendly two hours that has spawned many a published poem. Free taster sessions to the first 3 to email to
[email protected]

28/04/2024

We are selling Bobbie's book online to people in the UK because it's difficult to send from Ireland here.
If you'd like one sending, please purchase from our website at
https://www.yafflepress.co.uk/collections

25/04/2024

If you'd like one of these books sending to you in England, let us know.

09/04/2024

Yaffle and Yaffle's Nest are off to Ireland on Thursday to launch two new books. If you'd like a signed copy of either or both of them, please pay for it on the website and we'll bring them back signed and post on our return.
Thank you x
https://www.yafflepress.co.uk/

08/04/2024

I haven't written a Substack post for a while so here is a new one.

writing about myself (or not)

07/04/2024

On 19th April we will be launching our 40th Yaffle publication, 'The Weight of Blood' by Bobbie Sparrow. It has been a total joy to work with Bobbie on this fabulous collection of poems in her very distinctive voice.
If you would like a signed copy of Bobbie's book, we will get her to sign some at her launch at Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway and post them on our return.
https://www.yafflepress.co.uk/collections

07/04/2024

We are delighted to announce the publication of our 7th Yaffle's Nest book and our first truly international affair with an author from the US living in Connemara, Ireland. We can't wait to get this wonderful pamphlet out into the world on 19th April at Charlie Byrne's Bookshop in Galway. Kathryn has been wonderful to work with and her poems are a luscious mix of Ireland and America told in her very individual voice.
If you would like a signed copy and you live in mainland UK, please pay for one and we'll post it on our return.
https://www.yafflepress.co.uk/yaffle-s-nest