Thank you for all our entrants for the Detritus Writing Competition 2025.

One month to go to the deadline for our international writing competition, Detritus.

One month to go to the deadline for our international writing competition, Detritus.

As a small business you would think that social media would be a key marketing and community-building tool, and while it is there are still many things we’ve been exploring doing in those fields that do not rely on the big platforms we are all told to.

There’s been so much talk about particularly generative AI in the creative industries recently that it might be time for a brief post outlining our approach at Pudding Press.

This week we're looking at how it feels to revisit published work after ten years, and plucking up the courage to face the cringe factor when looking back over your previous work.

Our new international writing competition, Detritus, is open for entries for unpublished writers.

This week we're featuring Shefali's interview with Natasha Knight at the Association of Illustrators, where she talks about how alternative publishing and zine making can fuel artistic ambitions and reap rewards.

Talking to an advertising copywriter friend years ago, I always remember he told me that the news media aim to complicate things. He’s one of those people who sometimes seems like a prophet and at other times you’re not sure, and I knew that this assertion went against the popular wisdom of the time.

The Detritus Writing Competition 2025 is aimed at those aspiring authors who have fabulous work waiting in the wings but who have seen their best work rejected and remain unpublished.

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The ins and out of GSPR for small businesses and what we are doing as a publisher

In this blog post we’re going to look at what on earth book publishers do anyway. If you’ve written something that could be made into a...

Whether you are self-publishing or have an indie book to get off the ground, working out how to fund it is a big part of even starting....

Self-publishing something might seem like a huge job with a steep learning curve but if you want to start small, and learn the ropes in a...

While the calendar New Year might be a manufactured thing, it’s often a nice time to reset and gain a fresh perspective on life, work and...

This is the new Pudding Press Blog where you will be able to read about the ins and outs of the publishing biz. Posts are written by...