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Congratulations to Alex Green whose biography A Perfect Turmoil is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards; to Norman Lock, whose novel Eden’s Clock is longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize; and to Charlotte Taylor Fryar, whose debut work of nonfiction Potomac Fever is a finalist for the Reed Environmental Writing Award!
Recent & Forthcoming Titles
Paul Harding had trouble finding a home for his debut novel, Tinkers. He signed with Bellevue Literary Press, a small publisher. . . . Then it won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize . . . These stories hearten struggling writers and everyone else who struggles too . . . These stories, finally, tell us that a healthy book industry is a diverse one . . . The more gatekeepers, the better.
From Our Authors
It had never dawned on me to send my debut novel, Ghost Moth, to the US, but in 2011, as part of Dublin Writers’ Festival, I attended a workshop with the American author Paul Harding. Harding is the author whose quiet, contemplative debut novel, Tinkers, nobody wanted. He’s also the author who went on to win, with that same quiet novel, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction after it had been published by Bellevue Literary Press, in New York. So, after 38 rejections from agents in the UK and Ireland, I metaphorically brushed the coal dust off my manuscript, popped it in a fresh brown envelope and set it sailing off across the Atlantic. A few weeks later Bellevue offered to publish it. Being agentless—not that I’d planned it that way—meant that I had to navigate my own way through the publishing process, but being with a small and prestigious press you’ll always get talking to the person you want to. (from the Irish Times)
Award Winning Titles
Comedy and tragedy collide in Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire—stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience.