@prototypepubs.bsky.social
London-based independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies & interdisciplinary projects, committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature. https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/
We are thrilled to share the news that Katy Derbyshire’s translation of Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahse has been shortlisted for the @societyofauthors.bsky.social John Calder Translation Prize. This is a new award for English translations of full-length groundbreaking works of literary merit.
01.12.2025 09:44 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
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Edinburgh friends!
Don't miss Caleb Klaces reading and in conversation with Martin MacInnes and Oli Hazzard this Thursday @goldenharebooks.bsky.social.
Tickets can be booked here or in the shop: goldenharebooks.com/products/mr-...
A brilliant article by Caleb Klaces on the often overlooked role of photographs in fiction, thinking 'about what the picture “knows” that the words do not.'
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Exciting bookpost! Thanks @prototypepubs.bsky.social
02.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
13/11: Poet and novelist Caleb Klaces will be discussing his novel Mr Outside, about a care home-bound father and his son. Grief, conflict, humour and the beauty of a life lived. We're big fans of @prototypepubs.bsky.social here and are very excited for this! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mr-outside...
03.10.2025 05:39 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
To mark #NationalPoetryDay we’re having a flash sale, with 40% off all poetry titles in our catalogue until midnight on Sunday.
Just enter the code npd25 on checkout.
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To celebrate the publication of Mr Outside, Caleb Klaces will be touring the UK, with dates confirmed in London, Edinburgh, York and Manchester, and more venues to be added soon.
We very much hope you can join us at one of these events:
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Great interview with my publisher @prototypepubs.bsky.social 🖤 www.new-books-in-german.com/interview-wi...
23.09.2025 14:36 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
"#Translators are [...] required to [...] sign up to the idea that invisibility is hard-wired into their value, and that a truly great translation is the one that the reader fails to notice".
In @jencalleja.bsky.social's"Fair" (pub. by @prototypepubs.bsky.social )
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We're looking forward to celebrating the publication of Mr Outside by Caleb Klaces with a trio of brilliant writers! Caleb will be joined in the bookshop on Thurs 30th Oct by Martin MacInnes and Oli Hazzard. Tickets via link in bio. @prototypepubs.bsky.social
11.09.2025 15:55 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS
📚 Excited to welcome JEN CALLEJA back to Voce with an invitation for the book fair, art fair, (possibly fun fair?) where her new @prototypepubs.bsky.social book FAIR: THE LIFE-ART OF TRANSLATION takes place.
🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
On 15 Oct, Sulaiman Addonia will be at Bàrd Books with journalist/writer Gary Younge, sharing their perspectives on London, writing, Sudan, the experiences of refugees, & more.
It's going to be a brilliant evening.
Tickets £5, redeemable against a book:
www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...
We’re excited to be co-hosting a special event at The Broadway Bookshop as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations, with Chloe Aridjis, whose story and essay collection, Dialogue with a Somnambulist, we published in 2021.
Thurs 9 Oct, 7–9pm
RSVP: books@broadwaybookshophackney.com
We are thrilled to share the news that Hasib Hourani's rock flight has made the shortlist for the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize!
Congratulations to all of the shortlisted poets and publishers.
The winner will be announced on #NationalPoetryDay.
A couple of @prototypepubs.bsky.social reads to get through this week!
28.08.2025 13:49 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Hey, @neglectedbooks.com, @amayna60.bsky.social and other people of good taste, we have a new Madame Nielsen in English next year from @prototypepubs.bsky.social
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Autumn book tour dates for FAIR! See you there! @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social
05.09.2025 09:11 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
We’re delighted to announce the second leg of UK events to mark the recent publication of @jencalleja.bsky.social’s translator memoir Fair.
10 Sept: Brick Lane Bookshop
2 Oct: Voce Books
8 Oct: Collected Books
16 Oct: Veranda Books
Details/tickets here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/2025/09/03/j...
'skittish, innovative and unapologetically wacky', with 'a message that all readers should understand and the publishing industry should promote'.
Thank you Esther Lafferty for this excellent review of @jencalleja.bsky.social's 'Fair' in The Times of Malta:
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You can order the collection with a discount of 30% in our summer sale with the code SUMMER30.
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Really delighted to share the news that Hasib Hourani's rock flight has been longlisted for the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize.
Congratulations to all of the longlisted poets and publishers!
englishassociation.ac.uk/michael-murp...
Me holding my copy of the book up in front of a leafy green hedge in the sunshine
Author photo taken by Maurice Haas
44. Mountainish By Zsuzsanna Gahse translated Katy Derbyshire
@prototypepubs.bsky.social
515 short notes, all informed by observations made somewhere in the Alps or while thinking Mountainish thoughts.
Hard to describe, easy to enjoy.
#WITmonth #WomenInTranslation #ReadTheWorld 🇭🇺🇨🇭
If your shelves lean toward the beautifully strange, don’t sleep on…
🎀 Girlbeast
⛰️ Mountainish
🌿 The Earth is Falling
@prototypepubs.bsky.social publish bold, inventive and quietly unforgettable stories that linger long after the covers close ❤️🔥
✨ FAIR is Book of the Day in The Guardian ✨
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Me holding the book up in front of a leafy green hedge. The cover is split into two blocks of colour. Green on top with the title and white on the bottom with the author and translator details.
I’m starting my #WITmonth adventure up in the Alps this year with Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahse, translated by Katy Derbyshire, published by @prototypepubs.bsky.social
#WomenInTranslation #ReadTheWorld #TranslationThurs
A pile of books and pamphlets
Been a good two days for post! TBR pile now quite large thanks to @taniahershman.bsky.social @thebraag.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @jamiewoods77.bsky.social Bring on the rainy weekend
17.07.2025 14:40 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Winner of the 2023 Danish Critics Prize, and shortlisted for numerous others.
‘Girlbeast is a fever dream of a novel that put a knot in my stomach. A provocative, vulgar and tender fable about the uneasy ruin of girlhood.’ – Lucy Rose
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(3/3)
In a world that fetishises girlhood, it asks whether a girl be blamed for internalising the roles imposed upon her? Can she wield her youth as power in a system designed to render her powerless?
Brave, provocative & unflinching, Girlbeast is a gripping, vital novel.
(2/3)
Girlbeast by Cecilie Lind, translated by Hazel Evans, publishes today.
Highly acclaimed in Denmark, Girlbeast is a fearless, unsettling, poetic novel in which power shifts unpredictably, and desire and coercion become indistinguishable.
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(1/3)
