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Welcome to Yellow House Publishing Ltd — Est. 2022

We are an independent Northern Ireland–based publisher committed to bringing contemporary poetry and short story fiction from across our shared Islands directly to our readers and directly from our writers.
Our work is rooted in the creative bardic tradition, propagated by diverse communities for millennia across Ireland and Britain. The oral traditions of story and place, carried forward through the written word. Traditions held fast to core principles of openness, critical discussion, tolerance, and free speech these remain at the centre of our publishing ethos.

Yellow House Publishing exists not as a gatekeeper between writer and reader, but as a meeting place. We believe in a direct, transparent relationship between author and audience. Our model is reader-supported and patron-backed. We are funded not through arts grants, but by those who value the work itself the reader, the collector, the community. In this way, we operate with a direct-to-reader approach: sustainable, independent, and accountable only to the integrity of the work and those who engage with it.

While recognising the importance of public funding avenues for the arts and the N. Ireland peace process, our goal is to retain autonomy in the publishing process. Independence allows us to minimise external pressures that may stifle creative freedom. It allows us to evolve on our own terms, to develop our ethos organically, and to remain faithful to the writers we publish and the readers who sustain us.

Our vision is simple and deliberate: to produce literary publications of lasting value and to support Irish and British writers at every stage of their development. We are particularly committed to maintaining dedicated space for authors writing in the Gaelic languages. Whether in Irish, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Manx Gaelic, or Ulster Scots, we actively encourage submissions. These languages are not peripheral to our mission  they are central to the living literary inheritance of these Islands.

The freedom of Yellow House Publishing Ltd is also freedom for the author. We are in the business of publishing strong artistic work from new and emerging writers within the Island of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Our responsibility is to the work, and to the enduring conversation between writer and reader.

Christoph Thackaberry 
Free Press Publisher 


Update New Releases Coming Soon 2026.
 A Better Locksmith by Jane Coyle launching June 2026.