Hello and welcome!
époque press is an independent publisher based between Brighton and Dublin established to promote and represent the very best in new literary talent.
Through a combination of our main publishing imprint and our online ezine we aim to bring inspirational and thought provoking work to a wider audience.
Our main imprint is seeking out new voices, authors who are producing high-quality literary fiction and who are looking for a partner to help realise their ambitions. Our commitment is to fully consider all submissions on literary merit alone and to provide a personal response.
Our ezine will showcase a combination of the written word, visual and aural art forms, bringing together artists working in different mediums to encourage and inspire new perspectives on specific themes.
For details of how to submit your work to us for consideration please follow the submissions guidelines and for all other enquiries please email info@epoquepress.com
Hello and welcome!
époque press is an independent publisher based between Brighton and Dublin established to promote and represent the very best in new literary talent.
Through a combination of our main publishing imprint and our online ezine we aim to bring inspirational and thought provoking work to a wider audience.
Our main imprint is seeking out new voices, authors who are producing high-quality literary fiction and who are looking for a partner to help realise their ambitions. Our commitment is to fully consider all submissions on literary merit alone and to provide a personal response.
Our ezine will showcase a combination of the written word, visual and aural art forms, bringing together artists working in different mediums to encourage and inspire new perspectives on specific themes.
For details of how to submit your work to us for consideration please follow the submissions guidelines and for all other enquiries please email info@epoquepress.com
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what's on // events
> 2025
Saturday 1st November
Launch of The Barbellion Prize 2026
Lynn Buckle, former winner and former judge, reading from her prize-winning novel What Willow Says
The Glue Factory Literary Salon, 7:00pm
https://barbellionprize.org/
Thursday 6th November
Wicklow Hills Arts Collective presents...
An evening with prize-winning author Patrick Holloway including a reading and open Q+A
Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, 8:00pm
Register at: wicklowhills@mailbox.org or https://forms.gle/U2FFtF8aAEMMzVKj7
Thursday 6th November
Leaves Festival of Writing and Music – 'The Art of the Short Story'
Mike McCormack and Mary O'Donnell in conversation with Christine Dwyer-Hickey
Donard Community Hall, W91 YW57, 7:00pm
www.leavesfestival.ie
Friday 7th November
Dublin Book Festival – 'Shadows of our Past'
Exploring themes including family, grief, memory, migration and belonging
The Museum of Literature, Ireland, 6:30pm
https://dublinbookfestival.com/event/shadows-of-our-past
Saturday 8th November
The Dublin Book Festival – 'The Art of the Short Story'
With Mary O'Donnell and Mary Morrissey
Lexicon Library Gallery, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin
https://dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-art-of-the-short-story-3/
Thursday 13th & Friday 14th November
CAPONEU – 'The Political Novel and Class Distinctions'
Reading of Brick Dust and discussion about the representation of class in the political novel
University of Brighton, UK
https://www.caponeu.eu/ https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/cappe/
Friday 14th November
Mocking Misery: Writing survival and Surviving Writing
Craig Jordan-Baker holds a talk, interspersed with readings from my books to date, I’ll explore how I write misery and how mocking it is a tool for survival
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mary_Magdalene_High_School_in_Poznan
Wednesday 19th November
CAPONEU – 'Fictions of the Family Workshop'
Authors Craig Jordan-Baker and Bea Hitchman give a series of short readings from their novels and discuss their representations of family, with a strong emphasis on working class and Queer subjectivities.
University of Brighton, UK
https://www.caponeu.eu/ https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/cappe/
Wednesday 26th November
Novelist Theo Dorgan interviewed by Mary O'Donnell
The United Arts Club, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2, 7:00pm
Tuesday 2nd December
Launch of Barn Gothic: Three Generations and the Death of the Family Farm
Ryan Dennis reads from his new memoir, exploring the end of family dairy farming in the United States.
Canaseraga Central School, Canaseraga, NY, USA, 7:00pm
> 2026
Friday 23rd January
Ryan Dennis in conversation with Tomás Kenny
Ryan Dennis and Tomás Kenny discuss his new memoir Barn Gothic.