The Emma Press

The Emma Press is an independent publishing house specialising in poetry, short fiction, essays and children’s books. It was founded by Emma Dai’an Wright in Winnersh, Berkshire, in 2012 and is now based in Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, UK.

In 2024 and 2025, the Emma Press was a Finalist for the British Book Awards Small Press of the Year [Midlands], and in 2024 shortlisted for the Independent Publishers Guidl Awards in the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion category.

Emma Press books have won the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Award, the Edge Hill Debut Prize, the CLiPPA (the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award), and Michael Marks Awards for poetry and illustration. The Emma Press won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlet Publishers in 2016 and has been shortlisted for the Award a further six times between 2014-2024.

With the support of Arts Council England funding through their Elevate programme (2020) and National Lottery Project Grants, The Emma Press has grown into a small team, running literature projects in the West Midlands alongside their publishing programme. In 2023 they established their Birmingham Editorial Readers Group, supporting local people to develop editorial skills and make decisions on their publications.

Publisher address:

Workshop 4 Spectacle Works,
16-26 Hylton St, Birmingham, B18 6HT

Website: https://theemmapress.com/
UK Sales: Inpress Books https://inpressbooks.com/
UK Distribution: BookSource https://www.booksource.net/
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