Dunlin Press is a small independent publisher based in the artistic community of Wivenhoe, Essex. Its focus is emerging writers and visual artists whose work is intelligent, thought-provoking and beautiful. Dunlin Press publishes creative non-fiction, poetry, fiction, journalism, photo-essays, illustration and more.

Dunlin Press operates as a not-for-profit enterprise.


About us 

Dunlin Press was founded by Martin Bewick and Ella Johnston in 2014.

Martin Bewick is a poet and writer, editor, content creator, and creative writing teacher who has contributed to many publications on subjects including art, architecture and social trends. He has taught at the University of Essex, where his doctoral study was on the writing of James Kelman. He is interested in modernism, serialism and minimalism.

Ella Johnston has worked as an editor across numerous magazines and websites. As an artist her drawings and paintings, installation works and occasional forays into video have been shown across London and in the South East. She is inspired by the work of 20th-century British printmakers and up-and-coming illustrators, the writing of Tolstoy and Joyce, Pelican book design and the intricacies of Tudor history.