readers need Tilted Axis: Tilted Axis Needs You

Hey there friend!

If you've ever been into the bookshop asking for a recommendation, especially if it was for global majority voices, queer or feminist writing from Asia, translated fiction that will blow your socks off, then you will almost certainly have been recommended one of Tilted Axis' gorgeous books.

We've listed a few of our favourites below and we'd love love love to see them continue to publish brilliant writers, bringing these tremendous voices to you!

For that to happen, they need your help. If you have a few pennies spare, please do consider supporting their crowdfunder, of you can share it with friends & fellow book lovers to get the word out.

Read/watch on to find out more about them and the campaign below, and support the crowdfunder HERE!

From the campaign:

After weathering the rising cost of printing and distribution, Tilted Axis Press is reaching out to our community of readers, writers, and translators for help – so that we can continue doing what we do best: publishing trailblazing literature in translation from languages across the globe.

Why Tilted Axis Press matters

TAP matters because we push the boundaries and tilt the axes of literatures in the English-speaking world: our authors and many of our translators represent the Global Majority and its diaspora; our catalogue is filled with marginal experiences resulting from colonial histories, migration and diaspora; our approach to literature is intersectional and the stories we publish reflect the true movement of people, language and imagination across imposed borders.

The figures speak for us:

• 91.3% of our books and chapbooks originate in non-European languages
• The 46 books we have published in the past nine years come from 19 different languages and 14 different countries across Asia and Africa
• 36 out of 46 of our books are written by women-identified authors
• 23.91% of our books are by queer authors or have queer narratives
• 20% of our books are about working-class experiences