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Set up by Pete Kalu and Tariq Mehmood, Suitcase Books is the imprint of Shorelines, “an online literary magazine and agency which aims to promote writing from migrants living in Europe and their descendants, and also writings about working class issues.” An imprint for books for children called Satchel.

A poetry press publishing chapbooks / pamphlets by global majority Manchester writers. Published work in the mid- to late nineties.

Set up by Jan Whalen and Suzanne Batty in the late 1990s.

‘Radical poetry, fiction and art with a global view’ reads the tagline.

Published as a set of booklets in 1975. A collective autobiography within a series of booklets published by the Manchester Studies department at what was then called Manchester Polytechnic.

A short-lived Manchester-based poetry / short story magazine. Ran for five issues in the 2000s.

Flapjack Press set up in the 2000s and is still publishing. It specialises in publishing writers known on Manchester’s spoken word and live poetry scene.

Small Rocks publication cover

This booklet was produced by Commonword in partnership with RAPAR (Refugee and Asylum Participatory Action Research) and CAN (Community Arts Northwest) and was published in 2010.

Gatehouse was set up in the late 1970s to provide “an opportunity for writers to express their thoughts and feelings on aspects of their lives.”

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