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Some Things That Have Happened So Far

Winner of our Backlash Best Book Award for Poetry Within Gareth Culshaw’s captivating literary work, we embark on an immersive journey across the Welsh landscape, delving into the intricacies of his childhood memories and tracing them to the present day. This eloquent homage to Wales signifies a milestone for our small press as our first attempt at translation. Gareth’s arrestingly fresh use of…

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The Sky Within

This brilliant and soulful memoir by Rebecca Stonehill takes us on a deeply personal journey in search of meaning and grounding when sleep just doesn’t come. This exquisite memoir goes far beyond what it means to live with chronic insomnia and mood disruption, but it also explores what it means to truly live when everything around you feels tenuous, fragile, raw, and dark. The Sky Within is a…

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Burial Machine by Jacob Griffin Hall

Burial Machine by Jacob Griffin Hall

Winner of the Backlash Best Book Award. “Life is a burial machine. It digs too much, buries too much, is forced to compress and compact every single impression until the plot explodes. The plot explodes. We start over. “The year lengthens, then constricts.” We suffer guilt, hide our little evils, make vows that become poems we can’t keep but keep. Insects, not gods, will save us, our friends are…

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The Arsonist’s Letters by Michael Tyrell

The Arsonist’s Letters by Michael Tyrell

Comprised of poetry written over the course of more than two decades, Michael Tyrell’s The Arsonist’s Letters reckons with a radically changing landscape, where “infestations of coincidence” overlap with “reflective/ tricks and rungless ladders,” and increased surveillance meets the threat of looming extinction. Throughout, memorable historical and contemporary figures emerge: a cousin mistaken…

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Backlash Press Top Tips: How to Prepare to Write a Book.

Backlash Press Top Tips: How to Prepare to Write a Book.

This week’s top tip is self-motivated and inspired. From September, I plan to begin writing a new novel. It’s an idea I’ve had for ages and finally feel ready to complete. I’m not one of those writers that just sits down and writes a beginning-to-end story. All three of my novels have started with scattered notes about ideas or visuals and random half-completed chapters littered about my…

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On Integrity in Publishing. A response.

On Integrity in Publishing. A response.

On Integrity in Publishing. A response. The majority of the people I’ve published over the years end up becoming friends. I guess this is because my boundaries for friendship mirror my boundaries for publishing. Micro publishing is unlike any other job because it is unpaid work that you exert for another towards a larger, shared goal. My goal, therefore Backlash’s goal, is to create a…

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Why I Started the Living Notebook Project.

Why I Started the Living Notebook Project. I’m interested in documenting how other people create art, and the best way to do this is by recording the process as it takes shape alongside daily experiences.

 “Art is not about art. Art is about life. And that sums it up.” – Louise Bourgeois I’m interested in documenting how other people create art, and the best way to do this is by recording the process as it takes shape alongside daily experiences. I feel the process offers a more authentic window to creativity than the polished piece. The finished work itself can be deemed solely an individual…

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Writing Tips and Inspiration: How to Find the Time to Finish Writing Your Book.

Writing Tips and Inspiration: How to Find the Time to Finish Writing Your Book.

How to Find the Time to Finish Writing Your Book. Firstly, you need to rearrange your idea of time and, probably, writing. You do not need a dedicated and allotted time to write a book. Nice, you bet, but not necessary for completion. The idea that you need a particular place and a certain amount of daily writing will keep you from starting. It automatically presents conditions and obstacles…

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Writing Tips and Inspiration.

Writing Tips and Inspiration.

How to Format a Book of Poetry. I was recently asked this question and thought it might be helpful if I addressed it in my weekly blog. There isn’t a hard and fast rule to laying out a book of poetry, but there are a few considerations to consider. Formatting works like sentence structure in that it directs a reader, so genuine care is required when you piece together your book. Not chapter…

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Writing Tips and Inspiration from Backlash Press.

Writing Tips and Inspiration from Backlash Press.

An Image for Keeping Faith in Your Creative Endeavour After an Interruption. It is difficult to return to creative work after any length of the interruption. I’ve left projects for ten hours, ten days, ten years, and upon each return, I have felt acute anxiety at having left my intentions unfinished. A fear that I’ve internalized as meaning that I, too, have remained unfinished, which is an…

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Backlash Mother! Interview with Curated Indie Author Tammy B. Tsonis

Backlash Mother! Interview with Curated Indie Author Tammy B. Tsonis

Where do you work? What does your space look like? I’m pretty flexible where I do my work. Sometimes it can be at the kitchen table or at a desk. Since I work full time as an HR Director, I have to take advantage of whatever free time I have, whether it’s during my lunch period, after work when my kids are playing or after they go to bed or on the weekends in the morning when everyone is asleep.…

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Backlash Blog. Writing Tips and Inspiration.

Backlash Blog. Writing Tips and Inspiration.

Why You Should You Cut Your First Chapter. I know it’s daunting but trust me. It takes a while to get into voice and tone. It’s like running before the endorphins hit. You have to write yourself and your characters into realization through crafting; that’s a multifaced exchange. This takes training. I’m sure you’ve been in a conversation that’s rambled on and on until the interaction reaches its…

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Backlash Mother! Interview with Curated Indie Author Lisa Saffron

Backlash Mother! Interview with Curated Indie Author Lisa Saffron

Lisa Saffron has written and self-published two novels – Checkpoint in 2008 and The Call of the Triple Spiral. in 2021. She’s written non-fiction books on lesbian parenting and academic articles on health and the environment. Writing, connection, curiosity, activism, evidence-based truth, a passion for justice, and a drive towards authenticity are the common themes in the apparently unrelated…

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Backlash Blog. Writing Tips and Inspiration from Author and Publisher Gret Heffernan.

Backlash Blog. Writing Tips and Inspiration from Author and Publisher Gret Heffernan.

When to Cut a Character? This a difficult decision to make – especially when you’ve finished a draft or organised a plot around a developing character. I speak from experience. I cut a main character from The Sculptor and redeveloped a sub-character AFTER I’d finished writing the second draft! It was painful, though necessary, and the book benefitted from my ruthlessness. It actually breathed a…

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Backlash Mother! Interview with Curated Indie Writer Rebecca Stonehill

Backlash Mother! Interview with Curated Indie Writer Rebecca Stonehill

I am a writer, poet and creative writing teacher from Norfolk. I had an urge to write creatively as soon as I started making those early markings on paper but it wasn’t until my late-twenties that I started to take my writing seriously. I have written three historical fiction novels (the fourth is currently out on submission) set in the Spanish Civil War, colonial and Mau Mau emergency Kenya, the…

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Writing Tips and Inspiration from Backlash Press.

Writing Tips and Inspiration from Backlash Press.

A weekly blog where publisher, and writer, Gret Heffernan offers insights and advice. Do I know Enough to Write this Book? (Internal Voice) No, probably not, but that’s par for the course and not really too important. Why? Because writing the book will show you what you need to learn. And gaining a new kind of knowledge is one of the best parts about starting a large writing project. It’s like…

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Backlash Mother! Interview with Angela Wallace.

Backlash Mother! Interview with Angela Wallace.

I am 40 this year, a wife, mum of two and undergraduate student at the University of Edinburgh. I have started a holistic art based business to help redefine sobriety. I hope to make sobriety and moderation from addiction and imbalances an option for anyone who desires it.  Where do you work?  I work from home. I have an office space that allows me to escape and create. What does your space…

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