The North East is home to Bloodaxe Books, the largest poetry publisher in the UK, and to many other great independent publishers as the list below demonstrates. You can check out each publisher by browsing their website to see what kind of work they publish. Many offer advice on how to submit work to them on their sites. Iif not, you should probably contact them by email in the first instance to enquire if they are willing to take submissions.

 

To find out more about independent publishers in the UK, a good place to start would be www.inpressbooks.co.uk. Inpress Books is supported by Arts Council England and acts as an online retailer of books published by independent UK presses. On the site you can browse titles by many different publishers and buy their books and magazines.

 

You can browse a list of publishers that Arts Council England support at www.artscouncil.org.uk/browse/?content=RFO&art_form=6.

 

In the region we are also lucky to have The Northern Poetry Library in Morpeth, where it is possible to browse through many poetry magazines. This is a great place to start if you want to begin to submit poems to magazines. Membership is free to anyone living in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, Cleveland and Cumbria. The library has over 15,000 titles and magazines that cover poetry published since 1945. A full-text database encompassing everything from epic to classic poetry is available. See www.northumberland.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=1669 for more information.

 

Email: editor@arrowheadpress.co.uk

Currently publication is by invitation only

Editors: Roger Collett and Joanna Boulter

 

Email: editor@bloodaxebooks.demon.co.uk
Poetry editor: Neil Astley

www.bloodaxebooks.com
 

Email: ed@bykerbooks.co.uk
www.bykerbooks.co.uk

 

Email: ironpress@blueyonder.co.uk

Editor: Peter Mortimer

See website for contact information

Email: info@redsquirrelpress.com

Editor: Sheila Wakefield

Email: andy.croft@ntlworld.com

Editor: Andy Croft

Email: contact@tontobooks.com

Editor: Stuart Wheatman

 

 

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