Blue Press

🔷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/i…

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 bluepressliterary@gmail.com 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-obses…

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… Link in bio!

🔷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/i…

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-artis… #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

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:

@adedayoagarau Congratulations!

good day to announce that I signed the contract for my second collection 🎉❤️

@joustingsnail This is fantastic! Huge congratulations!

Very very grateful to all and excited to have my first book out in the world soon!! It's a surreal feeling 💕

@alchemy_spoon Congratulations on the launch of issue 15!

Very many thanks to all who came to the fab launch of issue 15 last night ❤️. The submission window for issue16 opens June 1, theme: food. Start munching on ideas…

@alicxyz @the_ethelzine This is fantastic! Congratulations on your debut

@manderleypress Quality is in the details! Love this

Did you know that every single one of our books includes matching head and tail bands - these are added to enhance the strength, durability and decoration of our hardback titles. Here are some of my Manderley Press favourites 📚

@And_OtherPoems This is a fantastic idea!

Friends, a little announcement: we’re now accepting submissions year-round for a new essays feature. We want this to be a space for new and original thinking about poetry and poetics, but also about how poetry fits in or around our lives. We can’t wait to hear from you!

@BethanyJarmul @LunchTicket1 Wow! Big day!

Y'all aren't going to believe this... but it turned out to be a TWO acceptance day! With an acceptance from @LunchTicket1!!! It feels like a lot of hard work paying off at once! (Some needed encouragement to keep going, keep writing, and never give up.)

@biancastone This is brilliant

I was asked in an interview if any characters haunted my poems, I was surprised to say: a Mask w red lips, a child, & Jesus. I grew up not in a religious household, but I find myself meditating on "made flesh" of immaterial, & suffering towards resurrection. This poem for Easter: