Tramp Press is a publishing company founded in Dublin in 2014 by Lisa Coen and Sarah Davis-Goff. It is an independent publisher that specialises in Irish fiction. The company is named after John Millington Synge's tramp, a reference to the bold outsider.
Publishing history
Tramp Press published its inaugural title in April 2014. Flight, the debut novel of Oona Frawley, went on to be shortlisted for Best Newcomer Award at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. The book also received positive reviews in both The Guardian and The Irish Times. Dubliners 100: 15 New Stories Inspired by the Original, edited by Thomas Morris, was released in June 2014 on the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's Dubliners. It comprises short fiction from established and emerging writers – including John Kelly, Mary Morrissy, Belinda McKeon and Eimear McBride – and an introduction by Morris. Dubliners 100 won the Journal.ie Best Irish-Published Book Award at the Bord Gáis EnergyIrish Book Awards while Donal Ryan's story for the collection, entitled Eveline, was shortlisted for the Writing.ie Best Short Story Award. It also received positive reviews in The Guardian, Irish Times and The Times Literary Supplement. The book was mentioned ahead of its publication in The New York Times. A Struggle for Fame by Charlotte Riddell was the first in a series called 'Recovered Voices', which aims to showcase literature that has been largely forgotten. The Irish Independent described this rediscovered book by a prolific author as a "rare treat". In 2015, Tramp Press published Sara Baume's debut novel Spill Simmer Falter Wither. Baume won the Davy Byrnes Award and the Hennessy New Irish Writer 2015 award. The novel was described as an exciting debut by writer Joseph O'Connor and rights were sold to UK publisher Heinemann. In May 2016, Tramp Press published Mike McCormack's novel Solar Bones which won the year's Goldsmiths Prize. Vertigo by Joanna Walsh was published in March 2016. Orange Horses by Maeve Kelly was 2016's Recovered Voices title. Tramp Press' 2017 catalogue included The Iron Age by Arja Kajermo, A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume and The Unforeseen by Dorothy Macardle. The Unforeseen was part of the Recovered Voices series. 2018 saw the publication of Emilie Pine's essay collectionNotes to Self. This was Tramp's first foray into non-fiction. The book won the An Post Irish Book of the Year of 2018. Tramp Press also published the novel Problems by Jade Sharma in May 2018 and A Brilliant Void: A Selection of Classic Irish Science Fiction, which was edited by Irish academic Jack Fennell. A Brilliant Void was part of the Recovered Voices series. In 2019, Tramp Press plans to publish a novel, The Red Word by Sarah Henstra, and Minor Monuments, an essay collection by Irish journalist Ian Maleney.
Tramp Press books
Flight by Oona Frawley - 2014 Dubliners 100: 15 New Stories Inspired by the Original edited by Thomas Morris - 2014 A Struggle for Fame by Charlotte Riddell - 2014 A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance edited by Belinda McKeon - 2015 Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume - 2015 The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle - 2015 Vertigo by Joanna Walsh - 2016 Solar Bones by Mike McCormack - 2016 Orange Horses by Maeve Kelly - 2016 The Iron Age by Arja Kajermo - 2017 A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume - 2017 The Unforeseen by Dorothy Macardle - 2017 Notes to Self by Emilie Pine - 2018 Problems by Jade Sharma - 2018 A Brilliant Void: A Selection of Classic Irish Science Fiction edited by Jack Fennell - 2018 The Red Word by Sarah Henstra - 2019 Minor Monuments by Ian Maleney - 2019
Publishing awards
In 2015, Tramp Press won the David Manley Award for Emerging Arts Entrepreneur and was also shortlisted for a Blacknight SME award.
