The one-woman publisher from Manchester named the best in the North with prestigious award

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A Manchester publishing house has been recognised as the best small press in the North at a prestigious book awards. The British Book Awards 2024 Small Press of the Year awards celebrates the independent presses delivering ‘imaginative, forward-looking and diverse publishing’.

Selected by a panel of judges, nine regional winners have been chosen by a panel of judges. Manchester’s Fly on the Wall Press has won the award for the North of England.

Already a previous five-time finalist of the awards, the small press specialises in political fiction as well as poetry and anthologies addressing urgent global concerns. READ MORE: All the Greater Manchester pubs that have closed in the last year as industry nears 'cliff edge' Described as being ‘a publisher with a conscience’, books released by Fly on the Wall since its inception in 2018 include Lying Perfectly Still by Laura Fish, The Soul We Share by Ricky Ray, and And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound by Morag Anderson.

Speaking about their nomination last month, Fly on the Wall founder Isabelle Kenyon posted on social media: “As the fifth year of Fly on the Wall Press closes, we celebrate our fifth regional and country finalist in the British Book Awards! “This award recognises the resilience and elbow-grease required to run Fly on the Wall as a one woman press and celebrates our pride: independent and unfunded, with a 2023 revenue growth of 33%, and a 2023 Manchester People’s Choice Culture Award finalist!