Fox and Star Books
Fox and Star Books publishes original chapbooks of poetry and fiction with at least 50% of publications by global majority or otherwise marginalised authors.
Founder/Editor: Carrie Etter
Co-Poetry Editor: Kaycee Hill

About the Editors

Editor and founder Carrie Etter has been writing and publishing for over forty years. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Boston Review, The Guardian, The New Republic, The New Statesman, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, The Times Literary Supplement, and many other journals and anthologies internationally. Her five collections of poetry include Imagined Sons (Seren, 2014), shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024). She also edited Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010), a TLS Book of the Year, former student Linda Lamus's posthumous collection, A Crater the Size of Calcutta (Mulfran, 2015), and Claire Crowther's Sense and Nonsense: Essays and Interviews (Shearsman, 2024). She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. (Photo credit Clara Langrick)
Co-poetry editor Kaycee Hill is a mixed-race, working-class poet. She was co-winner of the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize and has published poems in Five Dials and Poetry Review. Hot Sauce (Bloodaxe, 2023) is her first collection.
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Submissions
We hope to publish some of the best debut poetry and fiction in the UK. Could you be one of the authors we're looking for?
We have finished our inaugural call for poetry chapbook submissions and are delighted to announce our shortlist:
Angela Cheveau Nadia Yahlom
Nick Currass Victoria Punch
Ian Irwin Soledad Santana
Bridgette James Laura Tansley
Rachel Jeffcoat Ceri Morgan
June Wentland
Thanks to everyone who submitted! We will announce our first selections here in due course.