ABOUT

ABOUT PAPERSHELL

We are a small (very small) Bristol-based micropress, publishing limited-edition writing and art.

We publish themed zines four times a year, and chapbooks whenever they’re ready to exist. Everything is released in limited editions – written, drawn, printed, stitched, and bound by hand, often using Japanese stab binding. No two runs are quite the same.

We like short forms, strange ideas, and work that fits in the palm of your hand (yes, most of them are published in A6).

You can steal tiny glimpses from our physical publications here. The rest lives on paper, waiting to be picked up.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Evey Damianopoulou is the founding editor of PAPERSHELL. She has a background in linguistics and classical studies, and a long-standing obsession with the waters of the Underworld.

Evey is the author of our very first chapbook, Wet Bitch of Forgetfulness, a duology written in a single day and named on a dare from her boyfriend. She is currently working on a magical realism novel that tangles history and mythology in a very unhealthy – but authentically Greek – manner.

Jack Kerrigan is the fiction editor of PAPERSHELL. He studied English, Music, and Creative Writing at the University of Southampton. When he’s not writing or roaming around Bristol, he makes a lot of noise with an obscene number of guitar pedals. He is the guitarist and frontman of Portrait of, a Bristol-based post-punk band. Jack is the author of Trampoline, PAPERSHELL’s latest chapbook.

Stephen Puzey is PAPERSHELL’s art editor.