Your writing career starts here...
Welcome to erbacce-press where we offer you, as a writer, a unique service including the opportunity to have your book published for free or with a subsidy to cover design, editing and type-setting
Who is/are erbacce-press?
erbacce-press sprang from the poetry journal erbacce (it rhymes with ‘apache’ and is of Italian derivation referring to ‘weeds’). Alan Corkish and Andrew Taylor are established and widely published writers who know from experience how difficult it can be to get work accepted by publishers when your name is unknown; the poetry journal erbacce was established to give a voice to new and radical poets; those whose work may not have been accepted elsewhere. The journal ‘featured’ a poet in each edition thus the chosen poet would get a full 20 pages to highlight their work.
Alan and Andrew then decided to create erbacce-press because there were some poets whom they felt really should be read more widely; they decided that initially they would subsidise some poets and writers by providing free design, type-setting and editing and, with selected authors, even providing a completely free print-run.
Our Products
These are sample covers of 8 chap-books we have designed for new writers recently; click on an image to enlarge. You can of course design your own cover and we'll resize and convert it to PDF for professional printing.
Ideally erbacce-press seeks to establish a writers' cooperative. We are setting the ball rolling by offering FREE services to writers which means you could get your first chap-book published and delivered either at no cost or heavily subsidised by erbacce-press and/or fellow writers. Briefly this is what we envisage; we select writers whom we think are in some way different or talented, we either pay completely for their first published work or heavily subsidise it (See ‘services’ under ‘What we can offer’) The writer then gets the completed books and sells them at gigs or in local bookshops and IF all are sold then that should make the writer a profit of around £120.00 to £180.00 depending on cover-price. We would then hope that the writer would then make a donation to erbacce-press so that we can plough the money back into helping another writer to create his or her first chap-book or collection.
For more information see the ‘A co-operative’ tab…
Weeds grow where they want to; not where they're told to grow...
