The Linen Press
Lynn Michell
At the moment The Linen Press is a one woman band. Lynn runs this small publishing house herself with support from editor Audrey Daly who has written 70 books, fellow novelist and creative writing teacher Stephanie Taylor, and women writers who generously offer their opinions as readers. Lynn is passionate about prose and about helping women writers. She has worked with writers in Edinburgh for seven years both in groups and one-to-one. Impressed by the high standard of writing produced by women from all kinds of backgrounds and cultures, she published an anthology, Wild On her Blue Days, which is an eclectic, original collection of stories, poetry and other writing which nicely defies classification. The next publishing project came about when 92 year old Marjorie Wilson came to one of Lynn’s classes, and a rare, lyrical voice was discovered. Childhood’s Hill, a memoir about growing up in Edinburgh in a time long gone, was published last year to considerable acclaim and for a couple of weeks beat Ian Rankin in Blackwells’ Best Sellers. Lynn is a writer herself with six published projects and knows only too well the hopes, aspirations and disappointment felt by women trying to get their writing published.
