'If you want originality these days, look to the independent presses. Tindal Street is one of the best'

One of the smallest publishers ever to reach the Man Booker Prize shortlist, Tindal Street Press provides a national and international platform for talented new writers from the English regions. Contemporary novels and short stories make for a varied, appealing list.

Many of our titles have won or been shortlisted for national prizes:

Costa First Novel Award shortlist 2007

Guardian First Book Award shortlist 2007
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction longlist 2007

Man Booker Prize longlist 2007

South Bank Show Literature Award shortlist 2007(What Was Lost)

Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award 2007 Edge Hill Prize longlist 2007 (Meet Me in Mozambique)

Betty Trask Award 2004

James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2005 shortlist (The Afterglow)

Commonwealth Writers Prize 2003 (The Polished Hoe)

Man Booker Prize 2003 shortlist (Astonishing Splashes of Colour)

World Book Day 2003 Top 10 (Whispers in the Walls)

Raymond Williams Community Publishing Prize 2000 (Hard Shoulder)

JB Priestley Prize 2002 (A Lone Walk)

Sagittarius Prize 2001 (The Pig Bin)

A Board of Directors manages the work of the Press; an Editorial Panel informs publishing strategy and decisions.

Alan Mahar, Publishing Director, and Luke Brown, Editor, run the Tindal Street Press office.

Emma Hargrave, Publisher, is currently on maternity leave.

The organisation is publicly funded by Arts Council England and Birmingham City Council.