Isabelle Kenyon

Managing Director

  

Isabelle Kenyon is the Managing Director of Manchester publishing house 'Fly on the Wall Press', and was named a Leader of the Year by the Bookseller in 2025. Founded in 2018, she has led Fly on the Wall Press to win Small Press of the Year at the British Book Awards 2024 (North), achieving finalist status five times in the years 2021-2025.

 

She is the MA Module Leader for 'Publishing in the 21st Century' at Arts University Bournemouth, and the author of psychological thriller 'The Dark Within Them', poetry collections including Growing Pains (Indigo Dreams) and one short story with Wild Pressed Books ('The Town Talks').​

She has had work published internationally in journals such as Ink, Sweat and Tears and newspapers such as The Somerville Times and The Bookseller. She previously coordinated the Northern Fiction Alliance and runs PR campaigns for writers and publishers under Kenyon Author Services (www.kenyonauthorservices.co.uk).

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She has performed at Cheltenham Poetry Festival and Verbose, Manchester, Leeds International Festival as part of the 'Sex Tapes',  Apples and Snakes' 'Deranged Poetesses' and Coventry Cathedral's Plum Line Festival. She is a fierce dog and guinea pig lover.

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She can be contacted at isabelle@flyonthewallpress.co.uk for press opportunities (not submissions) or isabellekenyon@hotmail.co.uk if your email is regarding her freelance author services, independent of her work for Fly on the Wall Press.​

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Molly Masters-Clarke

Events and PR Coordinator

Molly Masters-Clarke is a literary marketer, events producer and writer with over eight years' experience connecting books with readers. She has worked across publishing, bookselling and cultural organisations, creating campaigns, partnerships and live events that champion authors and build engaged reading communities. As the founder of the award-winning literary community Aphra (formerly Books That Matter), she grew a community of more than 200,000 readers.

 

Molly is the author of the bestselling book Bibliotherapy: Books for Every Chapter of Life, published by Harper Collins. She graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in English Literature, and a creative writing elective from Humboldt University in Berlin.When she's not talking about books, she's usually swimming, exploring National Trust gardens or planning her next literary adventure.

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Working days: Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays (Part-Time).

 

 

Sarah-Jayne Kenyon

Proofreading and PR 

Former primary teacher and Deputy Headmaster, now home tutor. University of Warwick and Manchester graduate. Working days: Freelance. Can be contacted on admin@flyonthewallpress.co.uk

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Lagoon Myers

Events and Submissions Assistant 

Lagoon Myers (they/them) is an artist from the American Midwest living in Manchester. With a Masters’ in fiction writing from the Manchester Writing School, focusing in Queer Gothic from the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, their writing indulges in cosmic horror, sapphic vampires, and the intersection of the internet and magic. You can find their short fiction in GRAVY MAG (issues two and three). Since 2024, Lagoon has been the friendly face behind the FOTW table at the Northern Publishers' fair. 

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Lagoon runs the “Microvoyage” Workshop, which explore speculative flash fiction as a form of queer utopia building, collaborating with trans organizers in Leeds and Manchester to illuminate queer futurity in the North. 

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When not zinemaking or developing film photography, Lagoon can be found rock climbing & organizing with Trans Climbing Manchester.

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Working days: Freelance/project-based. Can be contacted on admin@flyonthewallpress.co.uk

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