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 or sales@flyonthewallpress.co.uk for bookshops!​

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Sarah-Jayne Kenyon

Proofreading, Production 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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Dr Lauren Bruce

Events and PR Coordinator

Dr Lauren Bruce has over a decade’s worth of experience in the book publicity world in a variety of roles. As a self-confessed book lover, literary historian, freelance artist, and archive dweller, Lauren’s love of books follows her in both a professional and personal pathway. She completed her PhD in 2026 which focused on how Egyptian mummified remains were treated and perceived in the nineteenth century. Lauren continues to research and publish about ‘mummy brown paint,’ a consequence of the ‘mummy trade’. She is passionate about inclusivity and supports accessibility in all fields. Lauren is the co-founder of ISSE, the International Society for the Study of Egyptomania. In her spare time, Lauren loves the spooky side of life and loves to haunt museums and bookshops! She is excited to be part of the Fly on the Wall Press community!

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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 when submissions are open only.

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