nine arches press
Warwickshire
NINE ARCHES PRESS was founded in 2008 and emerged from an awareness of the local
literary landscape and a desire to provide a platform for new and emerging
poets. As a result, Under the Radar magazine was set up first, and Nine Arches
Press swiftly moved onto publishing pamphlets by October of that year. By the
following year we had brought out our first two full-length poetry collections,
and a further batch of poetry pamphlets and issues of the magazine. Since 2008,
Nine Arches has continued onwards and upwards, publishing poetry and continuing
to develop Under the Radar magazine. In 2010, two of our pamphlets (The Terrors
by Tom Chivers and The Titanic Cafe closes its doors and hits the rocks by David
Hart, both now out of print) were shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry
Pamphlet prize. Next, Mark Goodwin's book Shod won the 2011 East Midlands Book
Award. In 2017, All My Mad Mothers by Jacqueline Saphra was shortlisted for the
TS Eliot Poetry Prize. Our titles have also been shortlisted for the Michael
Murphy Prize, and in 2016 David Clarke's debut poems, Arc, was longlisted for
the Polari Prize. To date we have now published over seventy poetry
publications, and 20 issues of Under the Radar magazine (and counting). In
addition to publishing, we are keen to participate in the wider creative
community of writing, listening, reading and sharing. We run regular creative
writing workshops, and offer workshops and masterclasses at a variety of
festivals. We also co-run Leicester Shindig, a bi-monthly poetry open mic night,
at The Western in Leicester, and are involved in a variety of live poetry events
both regionally and nationally. Nine Arches Press places a high value on good,
concise editing and in working closely with all of our authors and poets to
ensure high-quality publications that we will both be proud to put our names to.
Our status as an independent press gives us freedom to take risks and closely
support the writers whose work we really believe in. Nine Arches’ aim is to
publish bold, diverse and distinctive new writing, an invitation to an adventure
in poetry for our readers. When looking for new writers to publish, the priority
is always towards work that will excite, surprise or delight readers. With
eclectic and wide-ranging tastes inspiring and informing Nine Arches Press, we
do not believe in defining a 'type' or genre of work to publish, beyond saying
that the main criteria is to select high-quality original work with a unique
voice all of its own. We are also keen to increase the amount of poetry we
consider and publish by writers from diverse backgrounds, and actively encourage
submissions from writers who have been traditionally under-represented in poetry
publishing in the UK. Nine Arches Press is proud to have become a member of
Inpress, the UK’s specialist in selling books produced by independent
publishers, in January 2013 – our titles are now represented by Inpress and our
trade distribution is handled by NBN International. We kindly acknowledge the
support of Arts Council England and we are a National Portfolio Organisation
(from April 2018).
