Fly On The Wall Press

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Fly on the Wall Press is an award-winning independent publisher based in Manchester, committed to curating upmarket fiction with a social message and heart.

Founded in 2018 with a mission to amplify underrepresented voices and challenge conventional narratives, they have built a reputation for publishing books that spark conversation, inspire action, and push literary boundaries.

Fly On The Wall Press won the British Book Awards’ Small Press of the Year (North) in 2024 and have been a finalist five years running! Other accolades include Managing Director Isabelle Kenyon being named a Leader of the Year at the FutureBook Awards in 2025, the Manchester People’s Choice Award (finalist, 2023) and winner of the Manchester Culture Awards 2024 (Promotion of Environmental Sustainability and Responsibility). Authors have been recognised in major literary prizes, including listings in the Sky Arts Award, the Laurel Prize; the Julie Suk Award, the Edge Hill Prize and the Saboteur Awards.

Driving Social Change

Fly on the Wall Press began with ambitious international anthologies which donated all profits to charity. Now, across many of our books, we continue this social activism by raising funds for chosen charities but also fueling ongoing dialogue on highlighted issues. Charitable organisations include Mind, Shelter, Crisis Aid UK, WWF, The Climate Coalition, Street Child United, and Invest in ME.

A Publisher with a Conscience

We redefine author relations by offering ethical compensation, surpassing the recommended royalty rates. We aim to be both transparent and ambitious with our communication with authors. With a focus on quality over quantity, we collaborate with a select group of 8-12 authors annually, ensuring tailored marketing campaigns and holistic support.

Meet the editor:

Isabelle Kenyon, Managing Director

Isabelle Kenyon is the Managing Director of Manchester publishing house ‘Fly on the Wall Press’, and was named a Future Leader by the Bookseller in 2024. Founded in 2018, she has led Fly on the Wall Press to win Small Press of the Year at the British Book Awards 2024 (North), achieving finalist status five times in the years 2021-2025.

She is the MA Module Leader for ‘Publishing in the 21st Century’ at Arts University Bournemouth, and the author of psychological thriller ‘The Dark Within Them’, poetry collections including Growing Pains (Indigo Dreams) and one short story with Wild Pressed Books (‘The Town Talks’).

She has had work published internationally in journals such as Ink, Sweat and Tears and newspapers such as The Somerville Times and The Bookseller. She previously coordinated the Northern Fiction Alliance and runs PR campaigns for writers and publishers under Kenyon Author Services (www.kenyonauthorservices.co.uk).

She has performed at Cheltenham Poetry Festival and Verbose, Manchester, Leeds International Festival as part of the ‘Sex Tapes’, Apples and Snakes’ ‘Deranged Poetesses’ and Coventry Cathedral’s Plum Line Festival. She is a fierce dog and guinea pig lover.

She can be contacted at isabelle@flyonthewallpress.co.uk for press opportunities (not submissions) or isabellekenyon@hotmail.co.uk if your email is regarding her freelance author services, independent of her work for Fly on the Wall Press.

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