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Broken Sleep Books
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Award winning indie publisher | poetry | essays | fiction | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @GodzillaKent | Reviews: [email protected]
PO Box 102, SA44 9BG
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    Apr 30, 2025
    To everyone who’s bought a book from us recently: thank you. We’re reaching for just 10% of our subscribers and followers to buy a book from us, which would sustain our work in a big way. If you haven’t yet, and you can, we’d love your support. brokensleepbooks.com
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    Apr 20, 2023
    Delighted and relieved to have received Arts Council funding of £29k, allowing us to expand our online events to include workshops and masterclasses, while also offering in-person readings. This ensures we can continue to widen access to the arts. With thanks to @ace_national
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    Oct 1, 2023
    SUBMISSIONS CALL: We are open for poetry pamphlet submissions until 30/11/2023. GUIDELINES: 15-40 pages of poetry. Please enquire if submitting outside of this range. brokensleepbooks.com/submissions
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    Jun 24, 2023
    We went and won the Saboteur Award for most innovative publisher. We're so immensely grateful for everybody's support, and we dearly love you all!
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    Jun 24, 2023
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    Most Innovative Publisher: @brokensleep Best Reviewer of Literature: @JosieAlfordPoet Best Collaborative Work: The Songs I Sing Are Sisters, @thecalendarroad & @kittyjmac Best Anthology: Ey Up: An Anthology of Northern Poetry @bentkeypublish
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    Apr 1, 2023
    SUBMISSIONS CALL: We are open for submissions of full-length poetry collections (40+ pages). Email: Include a short biography, and brief synopsis, in the body of an email. Subject: Poetry collection Submission - [Name], [Title] brokensleepbooks.com/submissions
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    Oct 1, 2022
    SUBMISSIONS CALL: We are open for poetry pamphlet submissions until 30/11/2022. GUIDELINES: 15-40 pages of poetry. Please enquire if submitting outside of this range. A5 size preferred for all submissions, Size 10 font for main text. brokensleepbooks.com/submissions
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    Oct 2, 2020
    SUBMISSION CALL: We're open for poetry pamphlet subs until the end of the month! GUIDELINES: ​We're looking for 15-40 A5 pages, Minion pro font, size 10. (If font unavailable, Palatino Linotype is fine - or the classic Times New Roman). Page numbers at bottom. Name at top.
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    May 1, 2020
    We are open to submissions of full-length poetry collections. Submissions should be at least 40 pages, We have no definitive preference for what are looking for, we enjoy a variety of genres and styles and consider anything.
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    May 24, 2024
    Support Broken Sleep Books: Buy just one book today. Your single book purchase can secure our future. brokensleepbooks.com/books
    A CALL TO ARMS: One book could make all the difference. We got the news, yesterday, that the Arts Council have rejected our recent grant bid. While this doesn’t affect our plans going forward, it does mean we don’t have the same financial security as other arts organisations may have. We have over seven thousand (7,000) newsletter subscribers, and over twenty thousand (20,000) followers spread across our social media accounts. If everybody who is subscribed to this newsletter bought just one book we would have the sort of financial security we could only dream of. It would ensure we can continue to create and grow new avenues for Broken Sleep Books, while maintaining the charitable and community-based endeavours we have always engaged in. We have got to where we are because of you, because of every reader and author we’ve ever worked with, for, and towards. Just one book from every newsletter subscriber and we’d be safeguarded for years.
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    Jan 2, 2021
    SUBMISSIONS OPEN! ​Poetry collection submissions are now open. Format: A5 size preferred for submissions Include a short biography, and previous publications, in the body of an email. Subject: Poetry collection Submission - [Name], [Title] [email protected]
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    Nov 9, 2020
    We've only gone and been awarded funding for next year from @ace_national! Exciting times ahead!
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    Apr 18, 2022
    We're over the moon to have received support in the form of funding from @Books_Wales to set up The Broken Sleep Over literary festival! We'll be releasing more details soon, but we promise it's gonna be the most wondrous of literary festivals!
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    Mar 27, 2023
    We are open for submissions of full-length poetry collections (over 40 pages) from Saturday! We're looking forward to reading all of your wonderful work!
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    Broken Sleep Books
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    Oct 1, 2021
    SUBMISSION CALL: We are open to submissions of poetry pamphlets (poetry books up to 40 pages). We have no definitive preference for what are looking for, we enjoy a variety of genres & styles & consider anything. Email: [email protected]
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