RawNerveBooks.co.uk
Title
Raw Nerve Books
Description
Raw Nerve Books is a small, not-for-profit feminist press publishing controversial, under-represented or experimental work. We publish a range of material within the arts and academia and are developing writing that spans print and web media. See, for example, The Feminist Seventies and Hello World.
Whatever the genre, our aim is to inspire new discussions in areas crucial to women's lives and feminism, asking questions that might indeed touch a 'raw nerve' with many readers. Equally vital is our belief that to take pleasure in, and responsibility for, our ideas, our writing and our politics it is important to directly intervene in the process by which work is published. To this end we foster a collaborative relationship between author and publisher, and our writers become part of Raw Nerve. Authors are closely involved in the process of producing, publicising, designing and selling their work and publication decisions are reached by consensus.
Raw Nerve Books was formed in 1999 by Heloise Brown, Madi Gilkes and Ann Kaloski when, after the White?Women conference at York, we felt that important ideas had been debated that should be circulated more widely. While sending a proposal to a mainstream academic publisher was our first thought, we were concerned that the active anti-racism of the conference would be compromised by using publishers' finite resources. In addition, we wanted to publish quickly.
