HUGE NEWS!
We are overwhelmingly excited to let you know we have received Arts Council funding of £60,000. This will allow us to release books, run events, do community outreach, start a pamphlet imprint, recruit a board and much much more.
Thank you so much
@ace_national
Gboyega’s family have released their statement below. They have started a Go Fund Me to support his final arrangements and to start The Gboyega Odubanjo Foundation. Please share and support. Gboyega is, and will continue to be, the best of us.
Some monumental news:
@ace_national
have offered us a £30k grant for our 2022 artistic programme 🎉🎉🎉
We'll be using it to publish 12 books of poetry & run our biggest ever national tour.
THANK YOU ACE & all the incredible poets & partners working with us to make art happen.
We’re honoured to announce our authors of 2022. They’re some of the most vital and original writers out there, challenging hearts and breaking new ground.
Welcome the next season of Bad Betties 🥳🎉🔥
Anyone who has seen Gboyega Odubanjo since 26th Aug please get in touch with Northamptonshire Police on 101, quoting ref MPD1/2619/23. He’s been missing since Shambala. More details below
We’re absolutely delighted to say we’ve been awarded
@ace_national
funding for our 2021 publishing programme! So grateful and excited to share everything we have planned. Keep your eyes peeled.
SUBMISSIONS CALL: Hello poets! We're looking for poems for our new anthology, The Book of Bad Betties.
Edited by two of the baddest betties we know:
@citytwarbler
&
@Vanessa_Kisuule
. Supported by
@ace_national
Deadline: 30th April.
Details 👇👇👇
We've hit 3000 followers and we want to celebrate. So how about a giveaway? So give this a like and a retweet and we will enter you in a draw to win one of these excellent books.
UK only.
Hey
@Arsenal
please RT to help us find our beloved friend, colleague, award-winning poet and lifelong gooner. Gboyega Odubanjo went missing from
@ShambalaFest
in the early hours of 26/08. Anyone who’s seen him should contact
@NorthantsPolice
ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSIONS OPEN!
We're looking for poems on the theme of SURVIVAL. Get them to us by Sunday 10th May for the chance to be in the book (& get paid for your work), out Autumn 2020. Go go go! ✏✏✏
We are OPEN for submissions of full-length poetry collections, from 1st to 31st July.
Selected authors will work with Bad Betty's founding editor
@amyacrepoet
, for publication in 2025.
Full details: 👇👇👇
We are OPEN for submissions from Black, Brown and Asian writers. We're looking for poetry collections and pamphlets for our 2022 publishing programme. Free to submit. Details:
What up, poets? Just to let you know, we'll be OPENING SUBMISSIONS on Monday 28th October. If you're sitting on an earth-shattering poetry manuscript, we'd love to read it. Details of how to submit coming soon to
📣 BREAKING NEWS 📣
We’re excited to reveal our new list of poetry authors, whose full-length books we’re publishing in 2023 / 24.
From debut collections & cross-genre to lyrical complete works, these are boundary-breaking books from writers we’ve long admired…
In the midst of this terrifying day, some amazing news: we’ve been awarded an
@ace_national
grant to support our 2020 publishing programme. We’ll be putting it to good use, with a cracking list of books & programme of events. Here’s what to expect… (1/4)
📢 PSA: On 1st July we will OPEN for poetry submissions. We'll be looking for full-length collections only. You've got one month to get your manuscripts ready. GO.
Are you a writer of colour with an earth-shattering poetry manuscript? If so, we'd love to hear from you. Send 10 pages from your collection or pamphlet to submissions.badbettypress
@gmail
.com by 31st Jan. (also open to white writers.)
1/14
🔥 Hello poetry lovers! 2022 is just around the corner & we’ve got BIG PLANS:
🔥 We’re publishing 12 books in 12 months, by 12 exceptional writers.
🔥 Here’s a look at our year ahead. Subscribe now to receive each title hot off the press:
SUBMISSIONS
We are 10 days into submissions and the response has been magnificent.
You still have until the end of the month to send poems our way all guidelines here:
SUBMISSIONS WINDOW CLOSES IN 7 DAYS
We welcome work from everyone but we are especially hoping to hear from POC, LGBTQIA+, Women and disabled writers.
We love writing that is beautiful (‘a Betty’ in 90s slang) and badass.
Good morning, poets! For the month of July, we are OPEN for submissions of full-length poetry collections, for publication in 2023/24.
Send us your brightest, baddest work. All details and guidelines at
SUBMISSIONS
We will be closed for submissions in six days.
Selected authors will work with Bad Betty's founding editor
@amyacrepoet
, for publication in 2025.
Full details: 👇👇👇
The poetry submissions have been rolling in and we can't wait to read them!
Please read our submissions page in full to avoid spending your time on ineligible submissions. We're not accepting pamphlets / chapbooks at the moment. Submissions addressed 'Dear sirs' won't be read.
Heads up for poets seeking publication!
⭐️ You have 1 WEEK LEFT to submit your pamphlets to
@littlebettybbp
(deadline: 30th June)!
⭐️ We're opening for submissions of full-length poetry collections, 1st - 31st July!
Details:
Ey up, pals. Big news: Bad Betty is moving to the glorious city of Nottingham. SO excited for this new adventure, & to be part of midlands poetry life (while still working across the UK).
London, you'll always be in our DNA. Come see us off tonight: 🎉🎉
📣 Introducing BAD BETTY LIVE NOTTINGHAM: a new, regular poetry & music event showcasing worldclass artists alongside fresh talent.
We're teaming up with
@NottmCityOfLit
to offer poetry masterclasses before each event.
Launching 21st Sept
@RoughTrade
💫
A reminder that we are open for submissions for pamphlets and full collections by Black, Brown and Asian writers only until the 31st of January. Full details here:
💫 Our last book of the year's a banger:
Last night, the mountain is the debut pamphlet by
@ForwardPrizes
-commended poet &
@The_Lifeboat
editor
@Manuela_Moser
💫
Part dream, part discourse; this book's a breathless game of contradictions.
💫 Pre-order:
1/7
Hey friends! We've got something amazing to tell you about. It's our new anthology:
#FieldNotesOnSurvival
A showcase of urgent voices, we're so proud to be working with these sensational writers! (list in thread)
Out September 2020. Pre-order:
1/12
This time next week, team BB will be taking a well-earned break to drink port, eat cheese and unglue our fingers from the internet.
BUT FIRST: we'd love to tell you about our books for 2021. We are so hugely excited about each and every one of these...
A bad poem's just an early draft.
This autumn, we're launching BAD IDEAS CLUB - a series of free poetry workshops & open mics in Grindleford, Chesterfield, Mansfield, Wolverhampton & Dudley, with
@JakeWildHall
@SophieSparham
@MrCaseyBailey
&
@HelenMort
.
Midlands poets, join us!
Join us for the launch of
@Amara_Amaryah
and
@JoshuaJudson
’s Debut pamphlets on the 26th March!
It’s free but booking is essential!
Guest poets to be announced.
The event will have captions and transcript by Otter and poems will be screen shared.
That’s it submissions are closed! We have been overwhelmed by the response, 996 people sent poems so thank you for trusting us with your work.
We will do our best to respond to everyone within 2 months.
Overjoyed to introduce INHERITANCE - the debut collection by
@JasmineCooray
🔥💫
A profoundly moving exploration of what is passed down by our forebearers, what is left behind when we lose someone, and what we learn from being loved.
Out 20th November.
The beautiful people at
@ace_national
have only gone and given us funding for the rest of the year! We are over the moon and can’t wait to bring you more books, gigs and more dancing gifs!
Out 22nd September: FIELD NOTES ON SURVIVAL
A new anthology featuring work from 30 gamechanging writers. We're excited to reveal the cover in all its glory! 👀
Launch info coming soon. More details and pre-order at:
It gives us great and much-needed joy to see
@JasmineCooray
's Inheritance among the
@PoetryBookSoc
Winter Recommendations.
Inheritance is a book of survival and resilience. We're so happy for Jasmine, and so proud to be bringing this book into the world 🖤
More happy Monday news we're delighted to reveal our Winter
#bookbox
will include Kwame Dawe's Sturge Town and the latest new books by Jasmine Cooray, Kostya Tsolakis, Billy Collins, Marjorie Lotfi, Juana Iris Goergen trans. Silvia R Tandeciarz. Join now!
📢 BAD BETTY TEAM NEWS! 1/2
We're delighted to have
@OdubanjoGboyega
&
@citytwarbler
coming onboard as editors in 2022.
These two dizzying talents (& very decent humans) will join
@amyacrepoet
in midwifing our pamphlets for the year ahead. (More on those books soon.)
We're overjoyed to reveal our next 2 pamphlets by 2 electrifyingly good young writers: William Gee and Summer Young. These are names you're about to hear lots more about. Prepare to be breathless.
Rheuma by
@body_content
Sylvanian Family by
@MissYoungWriter
Late summer.
These poets' pamphlets, selected by Anja König and Gboyega Odubanjo, are arresting, skilful, powerful, generous, breathtaking.
We're proud to see Gboyega's work live on in this wonderful list, to be published by Little Betty in 2024.
We are incredibly proud to announce our inaugural pamphlet list, selected by Gboyega Odubanjo and Anja König, and published in memory of Gboyega.
Jackson Phoenix Nash
Olivia Douglass
@_oliviadouglass
Kareem Parkins-Brown
@ParkinsBrown
Ciara Maguire
@slowfaults
Suzannah Evans
We’re super excited to announce the poets featuring in our Alter Egos anthology, out 5th September! After reading through piles of eye-wateringly good submissions, we've selected the poems we couldn't live without and put them into a book we can't wait to bring into the world.
I don't know who needs to hear this right now, but feeling alone sometimes is something we have in common.
This is 'What Trauma Taught Me' by
@MollyNaylor
from new collection Whatever You've Got - out next month:
Deliriously excited to present our 1st 2 books of 2020: poems for my FBI agent by
@tambourine
& bloodthirsty for marriage by
@SusannahDickey
These mind-bending pamphlets are risk-taking, ambitious in form and process, wildly intelligent and bursting with wit. Launching MARCH.
Good morning and congratulations to
@SusannahDickey
for winning an Eric Gregory award for poetry. We couldn't be happier for her, if you want to experience her genius grab a copy of bloodthirsty for marriage here:
Join us for the launch of Field Notes on Survival, Wed 30th Sept, 7.30pm on Zoom.
A live screening of poetry performances with closed captioning, plus Q&A. Watch the poems, join the conversation, and help us give this book a great welcome to the world.
Happy Publication Day
@JasmineCooray
💖🎉
Inheritance is out today.
It's been flying off the shelves on tour, & picked up a PBS Recommendation. Beautiful to see readers falling for this book like we did.
Get a copy at: or at
@RichMixLondon
this Thurs!
We want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has supported us this year it means the world. We are so proud of these books and the authors of them who have been amazing in the face of a difficult year!
In spring 2024, we’re publishing ARE YOU THERE, the breathtaking debut collection from Indiana-based poet
@smnthfn
💫
Author of Sad Horse Music (
@dailydrunkmag
) & Coughing Up Planets (
@vapoetry
) & editor of Taylor Swift anthology
@kissurdarlings
💋
We are over the moon to be Midlands Finalists for the Small Press of the year! Thank you to everyone at The Bookseller. Congratulations to all the other presses on the list!
Want to read Bad Betty poetry in ebook form? Now you can!
Our entire 2022 list is now available in both paperback & EPUB (with more titles coming soon).
Just pick a book from our online shop and select your format:
Our new East Midlands poetry event - Bad Betty Live Nottingham - launches
@RoughTrade
on 21st Sept.
Expect poetry, music, warmth, community, and tributes to our dear friend.
We're proud to present some of the best artists on the planet...
We're over the moon to be shortlisted for the Michael Marks Publishers' Award again this year! Congrats to
@VervePoetryPres
@GuillemotPress
&
@newwalkmagazine
- great company to be in, & to all the shortlisted poets!
Anyone who has seen Gboyega Odubanjo since 26th Aug please get in touch with Northamptonshire Police on 101, quoting ref MPD1/2619/23. He’s been missing since Shambala. More details below
SUBMISSIONS CLOSE IN 60 HOURS!
That’s Sunday at midnight.
Have a collection ready? Send us 10 pages. We don’t charge but consider buying a book so you know what we like and to support us.
All guidelines here:
Good morning and congratulations to
@GabrielAkamo
who has just sold out the first print run of At the Speed of Dark. More copies coming soon and available here:
Presenting THE BOOK OF BAD BETTIES, a new anthology edited by
@Vanessa_Kisuule
&
@citytwarbler
💫
A tribute to the women who’ve changed our lives: fighters, survivors, rebels, queens, bosses, mentors, mothers, lovers & friends. Cover by
@_helennicholson
Presenting VAMPIRES by
@MattHaighPoetry
🦇🖤🩸
Devastating both for its dazzling linguistic flair and its moving central story, Vampires is a dream resurrected, a surreal MTV video, an ode to our beta-version hearts.
Out 18th Nov. PRE-ORDER at
We're wildly excited to present ON THE SUBJECT OF FALLEN THINGS by James Kearns.
This Chekhovian metanarrative explores permanence, mortality and the corruption of human storytelling. Absurd, existential and utterly addictive.
Out 28th November:
7 DAYS LEFT TO SEND POEMS
That's 168 hours or 10080 minutes or until midnight on Sunday!
We are open for pamphlets and full collections from Black, Brown and Asian writers only! Full details and guidelines here:
We are going to be LIVE on Instagram next Friday 22nd May, 7.30pm with these two beautiful poets:
@SusannahDickey
and
@troycabida
are fabulous, you are fabulous come be fabulous with us.
It's Saturday night, and there's nowhere to go. So we've brought some sizzling-hot poetry to Youtube. If you missed our Field Notes on Survival launch, you can now watch it (with captions) here:
Who's ready for a night of poetic tributes to our best women and baddest betties?
The Book of Bad Betties launches Wednesday 22nd Sept, 7.30pm (BST) on Zoom.
Join us to celebrate this new anthology, edited by
@citytwarbler
@Vanessa_Kisuule
🎉🥂💫