Litfest

Flax is proud to announce the recruitment of a new editor.

New Editor, Bill

Bill will be assiting in the selection for the next four Flax anthologies. You may want to consider this when you make your submissions

I’ve read a couple of great books recently and suspect I’ll use them to switch off from the glitz and glamour that will be the next two weeks of parties, concerts, spa treatments and jet-setting Christmas activities. So, in case you have an equally burdensome time ahead (or just over indulgent mince pie scoffing) I thought you might like the opportunity to duck out (if only mentally):
Linda Cash’s Test Paper is another beautiful example of a Templar pamphlet. And the poetry inside, well, reading it is like unravelling steel wool …
I’m a bit late to pick up a Caroline Bird book, but glad to have done so eventually. Finding these poems are like finding a bottle that says ‘gargle me’. Alice for adults.
And while you can’t get this in time for Christmas, while I’m thinking about fiction for younger people … another writer pubished by Flax has a book out. Jane Eagland is being published by Pan Macmillan in March.
So, whatever you read, have a very happy holiday

So, we’re coming to the end of another year and doing what you do when there’s snow on the ground and minus minus in the air … contemplate what’s gone on and who’s done what. So in advance of the rest of the year’s round up I wanted to woo hoo some of the writers who have appeared in Flax publications over the year (or so):

Emma McGordon’s new collection, Those Who Jump, is out from tall-lighthouse
Josephine Dickinson’s Night Journey comes from flambard

And looking to next year -

Ian Seed’s first complete collection Anonymous Intruder will be published by Shearsman
Maya Chowdhry’s pamphlet (as yet untitled) is coming from Commonword

It’s such a boost to be working with writers who are committed to their poetry and continue to find outlets and audiences for their writing. Also,
a) it makes us feel like we are really part of a wide and rich community of literature
b) it affirms our choices – yes, Flax might actually be publishing some of the best new writing from the north west (phew)
c) we love that these people are a roll
and d) there’s that lovely warm feeling that we must be picking up from them that their work is being recognised as worth an audience – hmmmm, that is something we just lurve.