Folklore, poetry, and artwork for all folk, by all folk. Our mission is to build a community that is intersectional and inclusive, that celebrates w*men, people of colour, disabled folk, queer and trans people, and migrant communities.

Formed collaboratively by Eve Aspland, Bliss Ashley, Joni Brown and Alice Watkinson, Unquiet Press is split across the UK, with bases in London, Bristol, Oxford and Chester.

Unquiet Press came about in a very organic way, from a mutual love of folklore and a desire to increase access by platforming marginalised stories within the contemporary folk revival. Started by Joni and Alice in January 2026, the Press has grown to a team of four, with each of us balancing different aspects of design, editing, production and outreach. Each part of the publication is crafted with collaboration and care, all the way down to the very physical process of hand printing and binding our issues at the Bodleian Library Risograph, Oxford.

With all of us working full time, whilst maintaining our own artistic practices and creative projects , Unquiet Press is truly a labour of love! We are so proud of the community we are building, and the people we have reached.

What unites Unquiet Press is our collective belief that Folk is alive and relevant today. Folk can be a mouthpiece to promote intersectional voices, particularly those less heard in mainstream media, and we want to use this platform to push against far-right and nationalistic ideas of identity. As a queer and state school educated group, we are interested in practices from artists and writers whose work celebrates these ideas. By looking backwards at traditional and regional customs, not just in the UK, as Folk extends throughout cultures, we learn how we have always been tied to the land and ecologies that we live amongst. Folk is not archaic or dead; it is the way in which we unite as humans and connect to our surroundings. 

Folk for all, by all Folk.

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