It's a triple-goddess-event July for Silver Press, with a chance to celebrate three of our titles, new and old, in three great spaces (plus look out for merch). Join us for some or all and have a Silver summer...

WRITING AFTER SEX, Thurs 11 July, 7.30pm, tickets £5/10: join us at the 💞Vagina Museum🫶🏽 in their fabulous new premises for a night of abortion poetry and conversation with poets Holly Pester and Amelia Loulli, AFTER SEX editor Alice Spawls, and co-chair of the Abortion Book Club Joe Strong. PLUS!...

Spiral House is Silver Press’s new imprint: a home for books exploring art, poetry, transformation and ways of knowing. Spiral House launches on the summer solstice 2024 with a new edition of Quantum Listening by the legendary composer Pauline Oliveros, introduced by IONE and Laurie Anderson and with images by Aura Satz.

We're celebrating the Spiral House Solstice with a special online discount from 20-27 June 2024. When you pre-order one (or more!) copies of Quantum Listening, you will get 15% off Silver Press titles (discount applied at checkout), and your...

Talking to Women was the book Nell Dunn published between Up the Junction (1963) and Poor Cow (1967). Like them, it was unprecedented for its era, and era-forming. In it Dunn idiomatically transcribes nine informal interviews she recorded with young women she happened to be around in the year 1964, friends across the class system, from factory worker Kathy Collier to socialite heiress Suna Portman, with a particular eye to women marking themselves out creatively, against the odds....

Granta Magazine online has just published this phenomenal conversation between Momtaza Mehri and m nourbeSe philip, reflecting on writing, editing and performing Zong!:

nourbeSe philip: "Zong! by m nourbeSe philip, as told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng. Yes? So, as you mentioned, with this white male voice, I turn that trope on its head. It’s the ancestor who is now telling the story, and some of it is told to her by the white man. She filters the story now, which is a reversal of what traditionally happened where it’s...

Work and Revolt – Edna Bonhomme Interviews Sarah Jaffe

Edna Bonhomme: In your book, Work Won’t Love You Back, you provide an excellent critique of capitalism but also have us think actively about what the world of work means in the contemporary age. In this generation, we’re often told that we must love our work, especially if it’s in a creative field like writing. And yet, the reality of what that labour might...

July Events ☀️ Celebrating After Sex, The Debutante & Quantum Listening

Welcome Spiral House Editions!

‘Witty, anarchic and sexually frank’: Ali Smith on Nell Dunn’s Talking to Women

Read m. nourbeSe philip in conversation with Momtaza Mehri for Granta

Work and Revolt – Edna Bonhomme Interviews Sarah Jaffe