Established in 2017, ignitionpress is an award-winning poetry pamphlet press with an international outlook which publishes original, arresting poetry from emerging poets.

Pamphlets published by the press have so far received six Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice selections and five pamphlets have been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award. The press won the Michael Marks Publishers' Award in 2021.

Learn more about the 30 pamphlets we have published and their authors on our Pamphlets page. We encourage you to read our pamphlets before submitting to get an idea about the kind of work we tend to publish and how our pamphlets look and feel.

How to submit

We welcome submissions from emerging poets aged 18 and over anywhere in the world. We consider an emerging poet to be a writer who has had some poems published online or in magazines, but who has not yet published a chapbook, pamphlet, or book-length collection. We expect that you will have – or be working towards – a pamphlet-length manuscript of around 18-20 poems. Our pamphlets are normally 36 pages in total. Please see our note below about the editing process at ignitionpress.

Please submit to ignitionpress@brookes.ac.uk the following:

• 6 poems that give us a sense of your proposed pamphlet. One or more of these poems can have been previously published. For the purposes of your submission, individual poems should be no more than fifty lines long.
• 75 words that summarise your manuscript as it stands and tells us about you as a poet. Feel free to include any notable poetry projects, successes in competitions, and publications in magazines or anthologies. Please add this to the same document as the poems and ensure that your name and e-mail address are included.

Our current submission window is open from Tuesday 7 April 2026 (at 00.00) to Tuesday 5 May 2026 (at 23.59).

Please don’t send your work outside these times as it will not be considered. There is no fee to submit your work, and simultaneous submissions are acceptable. However, if your manuscript is accepted by another publisher whilst it is still under consideration by ignitionpress, we would be grateful if you might inform us asap.

If you have questions that are not answered by our frequently asked questions section below, please get in touch with Niall Munro: ignitionpress@brookes.ac.uk

We look forward to reading your work!