About Out-Spoken Press
Out-Spoken Press is a London-based independent publisher of poetry and critical writing. Founded in 2015 by poet and editor Anthony Anaxagorou, with the aim of challenging a lack of diversity in publishing, the Press was shortlisted for the British Book Awards’ Small Publisher of the Year in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024. Press titles have won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and been shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and Forward Prizes.
Our Team
Anthony Anaxagorou (Editor)
Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, Ambit, The Adroit Journal, The London Magazine, The Rialto and elsewhere. His poetry and fiction have appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts.
His second collection After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. It was selected as one of The Telegraph’s and The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2019 and shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize. He was awarded the 2019 H-100 Award for writing and publishing, and the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award for his poetry and fiction. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Roehampton. In 2020 he published How To Write It with Merky Books. His latest collection, Heritage Aesthetics, was published by Granta Books in 2022.
Anthony is also artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music event held at London’s Southbank Centre. He has toured extensively throughout Europe and Australia and his work has been studied in universities, schools and colleges across Europe and the USA.
Patricia Ferguson (Publishing Co-ordinator)
Patricia joined our team in 2019. She organises the day-to-day administration of the Press, including co-ordinating the logistics of bringing titles from manuscript to publication, proofreading, typesetting, marketing and publicity, social media and accounts.
Information for Stockists
Out-Spoken Press works with Inpress to distribute through BookSource, so orders may be placed through them. Alternatively, if you would like to order directly through Out-Spoken Press, please contact Patricia Ferguson on press@outspokenldn.com
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
In response to the call from Palestinian artists and cultural workers for a cultural boycott of Israel, and against the settler colonialism, violent apartheid and genocidal campaign of the Israeli state, Out-Spoken Press is committed to adhering to the guidelines for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
We continue to reject censorship and uphold the fundamental importance of freedom of expression.
Read more about PACBI on the BDS Movement website here.
Accessibility
Out-Spoken Press is a participant in the RNIB Bookshare scheme, which supports learners with a print disability to access textbooks and resources for learners with sight loss, dyslexia, dyspraxia, autism and qualifying physical disabilities. To find out more about RNIB Bookshare, visit the website here.
Library and Prison Donation
We regularly donate our titles to libraries and prison libraries. If you are a librarian and would like to discuss obtaining Out-Spoken Press titles, please email Patricia Ferguson on press@outspokenldn.com.