The New Menard Press

We are very excited to share with you our 2026 catalogue, including both our backlist and forthcoming titles! 🦣 For 2026 we are looking forward to: 📙 Worm in the Bud - Sally Bayley (Fiction, January 2026) 📘 On Being Ill - Virginia Woolf and others (Essay collection, March 2026) 📕Over, - Ruth Rosengarten (Poetry, May 2026) 📗 Pond Life - Sally Bayley (Fiction, September 2026) Browse all our books, from contemporary (translated and original) fiction and (bilingual) poetry to non-fiction and classics. Feel free to download the catalogue (via link in bio or )

Exciting news from The New Menard Press! ✨ Virginia Woolf’s foundational essay ‘On Being Ill’, and a collection of twelve brand new essays and poetry on illness, disability and care, will be published on 2nd June! Watch this space 👀

11 May, 2026. Here's a bit of bizarre miscommunication. After months of the decision to print the cover of my book a dusty pink, the printers ... had their own view, or something, returning to the original design, which at the time we decided might be too stark. Anyhow, actually I love the creamy white. Fits with the undercurrent of ghosting. Book cover, new reveal!

Only a couple of days to go before @ruthrosengarten marvellous hyprid poetry/prose work will be arriving from the printers. We cannot wait 💖 Thanks to poet @hlcopley for delivering this great endorsement ✨ Pre-order your SIGNED copy now from our website!

Over, @ruthrosengarten ’s forthcoming hybrid poetry/prose collection of sestudes will be launched on the 26th of May in London @cremefraicheart We are thrilled to share some of the first reader’s endorsments in the coming weeks.Thank you @merylpugh 🌺 Pre-order your copy on our website!

Pond Life - Sally Bayley’s next exciting new fiction forthcoming at The New Menard Press to be published in September this year. We are so thrilled and grateful to be working with Sally and to contribute making her novels colour the literary landscape and fill the imagination of her readers, we cannot wait till September! The cover art for Pond Life was created once more by the amazing Louisa Albani. “Bayley’s adeptness with mobile identities, with class as well as gender, gives her unexpected sympathies” - Marina Warner

Over, @ruthrosengarten ’s forthcoming hybrid poetry/prose collection of sestudes will be launched on the 26th of May. We are thrilled to share some of the first reader’s endorsments in the coming weeks. Thank you @bhanukaplish 💗

100 years after Virginia Woolf’s seminal essay 'On Being Ill', @thenew_menardpress is bringing out a new anthology to complement their 2020 edition. Featuring the original essay alongside nonfiction and poetry from contemporary authors inspired by Woolf’s words, On Being Ill (New Edition) invites readers to connect with illness through art and literature, and to reframe it through different perspectives. Out on the 15th May, pre-order now 💙💙 #VirginiaWoolf #OnBeingIll #Anthology #ContemporaryWriting #Nonfiction

Copies of @bayleysally 's remarkable fable — Worm in the Bud — are now available at bookshops and online. We're thrilled to announce her upcoming book — Pond Life — set to be published by @thenew_menardpress this autumn, so stay tuned! 'With each book, Sally Bayley seems to invent a new literary genre.' - Matt Rowland Hill.

✨📣 Call for submissions! We are excited to announce a forthcoming new edition of ‘On Being Ill’ in 2026 💙 We are delighted to invite new authors to contribute with personal reflections on the subtle complexities around art, literature, illness, disability and care. Virginia Woolf's essay 'On Being Ill' was first published in 1926. This year - exactly a hundred years later - The New Menard Press is excited to present a new anthology complementing our first edition, published in the early period of the Covid pandemic in 2020. Working with a more expansive view of what could be included in this new edition, all are invited to submit. Don’t hesitate to share this open call with a writer or other creative artist you would love to see included alongside Woolf! ✍🏻 We look forward to receiving your work. All best wishes, The New Menard Press

Little Estuaries is on sale, through my website, from today. Beautifully produced by @thenew_menardpress , with original cover art by @night_bird_press . A book of quiet, meditative poems, inspired by the estuary landscape. Find out more and order via the link in bio. Signed copied are available. Thanks for reading. x “These poems speak of vistas we realise we need, and now more than ever.”—Gareth Evans “Gloriously spare and strange and compendious and tender, like a hymn.”—Sara Baume “What emerges, through and around these gentle poems is a place of quiet…”—Rachel Lichtenstein “Each poem reaches and retreats as natural as breathing and as strong as the tide.”—Lucia Dove “I loved the tender, probing sparseness of this book.”—Victoria Adukwei Bulley “This isn’t writing to make feelings, this is writing as feeling, and glorious with it.”—Rishi Dastidar “Gorgeous—I’ve been sipping it in small sittings like a very fine wine.”—Max Porter

We are so excited to be publishing Ruth Rosengarten’s Over, in May 2026! 🤍 Over, tracks the aftermath of a breakup during the Covid19 pandemic, where the protagonists are ‘getting on,’ as the euphemism has it. In sestudes (62-word blocks), the unnamed narrator jumps in and out of moments of an apparently loving relationship. Lacing together disparate chronologies, the book addresses the sexuality of older women and men, the nature of intimacy and empathy, and the pleasures and dangers of attachment. Crucially, in its fragmentary form, it embodies the empowering feminist capabilities of narrative disruption. Through the thickening lens of the ageing eye/I, Over, explores how an experience of love might shift and steer us newly, while asking what—other than playlists, WhatsApps and Instagram—remains consistent. Ruth Rosengarten is a writer, reader, artist and recovering art historian. She talks of both her writing and visual practice as strongly indebted to the semantics and aesthetics of collage. In 2022, this book, while in the early stages of its development, was shortlisted for the Discoveries Prize (the Women’s Prize’s writer development programme @womensprize )