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, 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 T.S. Eliot Prize, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Forward Prizes.
Our Team
Anthony Anaxagorou (Commissioning Editor)
Anthony Anaxagorou FRSL is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist and publisher. His third collection, Heritage Aesthetics published with Granta Poetry in 2022, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award. It was listed as one of New Statesman’s top books of 2022.
His second collection, After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year. In 2020 he published How To Write It with Merky Books; a practical guide fused with tips and memoir looking at the politics of writing as well as the craft of poetry and fiction along with the wider publishing industry.
Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press. He is the editor-in-chief of Propel Magazine, an online literary journal featuring the work of poets yet to publish a first collection and the founder and curator of WriteBack, a quarterly literary series held at the British Library.
In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow at the University of Roehampton. In 2023 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Patricia Ferguson (Managing Editor)
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, social media and accounts.
Maria-Sophia Christodoulou (Events & Publishing Co-ordinator)
Maria joined the team in 2025, bringing her energy, expertise and attention to detail to our events and marketing.
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.
Returns
Find our shop returns policy here.