ABOUT THE TEAM
Isabelle Kenyon
Managing Director
Isabelle Kenyon is a Manchester writer 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').
In 2018 she founded Fly on the Wall Press, a political publisher of fiction and poetry, achieving Small Press finalist status at the British Book Awards for the last four years and winning in the North in 2024!
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 coordinates the Northern Fiction Alliance at Comma Press 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 in 2020, Leeds International Festival as part of the 'Sex Tapes', Apples and Snakes' 'Deranged Poetesses' in 2019 and Coventry Cathedral's Plum Line Festival in 2018. She is a fierce dog and guinea pig lover and a confessed caffeine addict.
She can be contacted at flyonthewallpress@hotmail.com for press opportunities or isabellekenyon@hotmail.co.uk if your email is regarding her freelance author services, independent of her work for Fly on the Wall Press.
Louisa Wagstaff
PR and Events
Louisa Wagstaff is an English Literature graduate from Durham University. In her spare time she loves reading (of course!), running and Pilates. Her favourite book of all time is Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and her current favourite is Milk Teeth by Jessica Andrews: both feature strong but fallible and vulnerable female protagonists!
Working days: Mondays and Tuesdays. Can be contacted on admin@flyonthewallpress.co.uk
Sarah-Jayne Kenyon
Proofreader
Former primary teacher and Deputy Headmaster, now home tutor. University of Warwick and Manchester graduate. Working days: Freelance. Can be contacted on admin@flyonthewallpress.co.uk