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'Someone’s rhythm sneaking in again. Sharing a language. The osmosis of rubbing up. Communing.' (Kathleen Fraser)

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What an incredible evening celebrating the launch of Grief is the Thing in Pleather by @pruebusseychamberlain at the iconic @housmans_books 🖤

Additional thanks to our wonderful readers - Francis de Lima, Maddy Pope, Caiti Luckhurst, and David Spittle, alongside everybody who joined us in the audience! taken in Housmans Radical Booksellers by @osmosispress

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We are overjoyed to welcome @tamsyn_challenger’s tender, unflinching, and urgent Him Hymn into the world today! This publication is Challenger’s debut book of poetry, written with an incredible commitment to an intimate and luminous lyric I💙

Thank you to the wonderful @p.g.gizzi @luukekennnard and @ripnadiadevries for spending time with the sequence to write these wonderful endorsements. We are so pleased that you enjoyed Him Hymn and delighted for Tamsyn too!

Copies can now be ordered through the Osmosis website - the link is in our bio! by @osmosispress

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PREORDER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨

IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE BACK! This month, Tamsyn Challenger’s ‘Him Hymn’ and Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ will be released on 25th and 26th respectively 🖤

It has been an absolute joy to work on both of these books - and we are so excited for you to hold them in your hands.

Head over to the Osmosis website (link in bio) to read excerpts from each publication and preorder your own copy! Preorders will be posted on the morning of Saturday 22nd November 🖤🖤🖤

Love, Briony and Cat by @osmosispress

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Thank you all for your submissions to Osmosis Journal. Submissions are now closed. We’ll be in touch with everyone as soon as possible. by @osmosispress

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✨ Open Call: Osmosis Journal — Issue 1: “OSMOSIS” ✨

We are excited to announce the open call for the inaugural issue of Osmosis Journal.

For the first issue, we invite submissions that respond to the theme of “OSMOSIS”. We welcome work that speaks to, explores or interrogates the idea of osmosis in all its forms.

Submission guidelines:
Up to 6 poems
Up to 2,000 words of prose (or an equivalent body of work)
Poetry reviews up to 2,000 words (no minimum length)

Deadline: 30 August 2026

For more details on submission guidelines, check out the link in our bio! by @osmosispress

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Delivering additional copies of Him Hymn and BOOKMARKS!!? to @tamsyn_challenger ahead of Thursday’s launch kindly hosted by @uofgwriting 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵

The bookmarks are an event exclusive and feature statements from @p.g.gizzi and @luukekennnard celebrating Challenger’s dynamic debut✨ by @osmosispress

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Next week, join @tamsyn_challenger as she celebrates the publication of Him Hymn at the Hungarian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. The event is kindly supported by the University of Glasgow’s Creative Writing Programme and organized by the wonderful Colin Herd!

Tamsyn will be joined by a wonderful panel of guest readers, including Nell Osborne, Tessa Berring and Jen Hadfield, whose collective work explores the profound intersections between literary and visual practices.

The evening will begin with an overview of the 18th-century masterpiece ‘Danaë and the Golden Shower’ by Andrea Casali from The Hunterian collection, and part of the permanent display in the Hunterian Art Gallery. This painting served as inspiration for Challenger’s ekphrastic poem ‘Rain of Gold’.

Tickets to this very special event are available on Eventbrite - the link is in our bio!💙 by @osmosispress

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We are excited to announce that the Osmosis team is growing! Meet Alice, Francis, and Winter, who will be collaborating with Briony and Cat on the next chapter in the Osmosis adventure. Excited is probably an understatement - this trio is a force to be reckoned with!

As most of our readers know, independent publishing is very much a community endeavor. After launching Osmosis in 2021, @brihughespoet was quickly joined on her adventure by the incredible @saskiamccracken, and together they grew Osmosis from a small idea (and lots of energy, love, and determination) into a full bookshelf of innovative books!

Since stepping into the role of digital editor in 2023, @marbledmayhem has published a dynamic range of poetry, essays, short stories, film, text art, and hybrid experimentations across our featured writing blog - their energetic contribution to the project has been remarkable.

Along the way, Osmosis has been supported by a generous and creative team of editorial advisors, and our former communications coordinator, Scott Lilley, who kept our readers up to date with our latest digital publications, book launches, and events.

You may have noticed that Saskia is now on a new and incredible adventure. Cat has since turned their focus toward our printed books, and worked closely with Briony to launch our two latest publications! Again, community made the impossible possible!

As Osmosis is run in an entirely voluntary capacity, the risk of burning out is big. What we do is very much a labor of love, and when times have been tough we have reminded ourselves how necessary it is to keep small press publishing alive and thriving. It is an honor to contribute to creative culture in the UK and beyond. Like many other independent publishers, we have been at a crossroads - but we are determined to continue our work in uplifting, celebrating, and publishing groundbreaking writing.

We are so proud that Osmosis continues to be a community project - watch this space 💙 by @osmosispress

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An event to beat the January blues! The next installment of the Small Press Takeover series is scheduled for Tuesday 27th January. Susie Campbell, Nathaniel King, Tamsyn Challenger, and JD Howse will be reading from their Osmosis Press projects alongside sequences from the wider landscape of UK poetry publishing. Prepare for innovative performances that will re-energize you for the final days of January. The Small Press Takeover is free to attend and open to the general public 🧡 taken in Senate House by @osmosispress

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SPOTTED: copies of Him Hymn and a very excited poet in the wild at @burleyfisher 📖 by @osmosispress

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✨LAUNCH EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT✨

We are delighted to be launching @pruebusseychamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmans_books as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm!

This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it means to live with grief, where Death becomes an embodied figure who runs both literally and figuratively through the text. Borrowing from Emily Dickinson’s figure of death in ‘because I could not stop for death’, this collection mixes Wiz Khalifa from Alena Smith’s Apple TV series ‘Dickinson’, Waldrop’s palimptext method, Denise Riley’s ‘Time Lived Without Its Flow’, Randy Schilt’s ‘And The Band Played On’, and ‘The Dead Poet’s Society’, to challenge conventional renderings of death, grief, citation, the banality of bodies and their upkeep.

Described by So Mayer as containing ‘life after life after life […] with all the sardonic seriousness, [and] the deadpan profound, that characterises Bussey-Chamberlain’s work’ - this launch is not to be missed! by @osmosispress

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