PALEWELL PRESS

In the autumn of 2025, NTU (Nottingham Trent University) final-year students helped Palewell Press accomplish two challenging projects

• Creation of material for a new eco web-page and the eco-policy and road-map to support our environmental efforts going forward
• Investigation of the new EAA accessibility standard for eBooks and of the steps needed to ensure our eBooks are EAA-compliant

We're very grateful to Jenni Ramone and Abigail Rowse of NTU for involving us in the two projects and to the students for their friendlly professional support. The photo shows four of the six students at the NTU Employer Showcase celebrating their work. 

On November 1st 2025 we held our latest bi-annual book festival - back with our generous friends at Kensington Library. The day included readings from writers published in the preceding 12 months, the launch of a memoir from Ahmed Zaidan - an Iraqi-Finnish refugee journalist, the sale of artwork by women in Afghanistan, and two Panel Discussions: 

• How can Literature help Human Rights? The discussion by Roz Doe, Muniba Mahmud, Jennifer Langer and Haydeh Ravesh was chaired by Matilda Atkins, one of our volunteers.
• What are the most effective ways to translate literature? The discussion by Barbara Mitchell, Caroline Stockford, Anba Jawi and Catherine Temma Davidson (in the photo) was chaired by Mike Raggett of the British Bilingual Poetry Collective.

Attendees enjoyed a delicious vegetarian lunch and bought lots of our books. Thanks so much to the large enthusiastic audience and to those helped us host the Festival.

Thanks to all of you for the wonderful set of manuscript submissions for potential publication next year. Camilla Reeve and our team of volunteer editors have short-listed them and chosen the titles to be published in 2026: