A publisher with a hunger for the unheard
Bringing marginalised voices and stories to the page.
What if failing wasn’t the end… but the beginning of something amazing?
Facing the Fear of Failure is a playful, powerful workbook designed to help children explore big feelings, bounce back from mistakes, and discover the secret superpower of courage.
Packed with creative prompts, doodle-friendly pages, real-life stories, and gentle guidance, this book shows young readers that everyone feels scared sometimes — and that’s okay. Because being brave doesn’t mean having no fear… it means showing up anyway.
Perfect for ages 7–12, this is a confidence-building companion for any child learning to try, fall, get up, and grow.
By Kathryn Rossati
Roar/Raw is a powerful, deeply honest collection of poetry exploring life as an AuDHD person navigating a world that rarely makes room for difference.
Written with a voice that is sharp, sensory-rich, and unapologetically real, Kathryn Rossati captures the intensity of overstimulation, the exhaustion of social interaction, the weight of memory, and the complexity of identity. These poems do not soften their edges. They tell the truth.
From the quiet vulnerability of A Letter About Being Neurodivergent to My Childhood Self to the raw emotional surge of Roar, this collection moves between overwhelm and joy, shutdown and self-expression, anger and acceptance. Poems such as After a Meeting, Hum, Meltdown, and Flap Happy offer vivid glimpses into the lived experience of neurodivergence, written with clarity, care, and fierce authenticity.
Kathryn Rossati is a poet and novelist based on the Isle of Wight. As an AuDHD writer living with chronic pain, their work is shaped by lived experience and a deep commitment to honesty on the page. Their writing invites readers not only to understand but to feel.
My Brain Is Like a Disco is a joyful, reassuring picture book about what it can feel like to have an ADHD brain.
Written by Kate Watkin and illustrated by Lottie Begg, the story follows Lily as she navigates racing thoughts, big feelings, daydreaming, sensory overwhelm and the brilliant ideas that can arrive all at once. Warm, energetic and full of heart, it helps children recognise that the things which sometimes make life feel difficult can also be part of what makes their brain wonderfully unique.
Created to help children build confidence, develop emotional language and feel understood, My Brain Is Like a Disco is a beautiful book to share at home, in classrooms and with children beginning to explore their own neurodiversity.
Pre-order the hardback and receive something extra
The first 50 people to pre-order the hardback will receive a copy signed by BOTH author Kate Watkin and illustrator Lottie Begg.
Plus, every hardback pre-order will be entered into a draw to win one of only 25 limited-edition prints featuring artwork from the book.
So, if you are one of the first 50 to order, you will receive:
âś“ A hardback copy of My Brain Is Like a Disco
âś“ Signed by the author and illustrator
âś“ Entry into the draw to win one of 25 limited-edition art prints
Only 25 prints are available, making them a very special keepsake from the book.
Hardback | Picture Book | Ages 4–7
Published by Lemon Jelly Press
By Justine M. Bean
Sometimes feelings get tangled. Sometimes they feel heavy. Sometimes they are just plain hard to explain.
I Feel Like Old Spaghetti is a powerful picture book that helps children explore and talk about big emotions such as grief, anxiety, sadness, and the sense of being left out or alone. With vivid illustrations and language children instantly understand, author Justine M. Bean captures what it’s like to feel messy and overwhelmed — like a plate of old spaghetti.
More than a story of struggle, this book is about hope. It gently reassures young readers that emotions can be shared, that help is always worth reaching for, and that they are never truly alone.
Perfect for families, teachers, and anyone supporting children, I Feel Like Old Spaghetti opens the door to conversations about mental health and provides comfort through connection and understanding.
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Lemon Jelly Press is an independent publisher based on the Isle of Wight, dedicated to bold, original writing that challenges, surprises, and stays with you.
We publish work that is strange, offbeat, and quietly powerful, championing underrepresented voices and creating space for writers who may have faced barriers to traditional publishing. From children’s books that support emotional literacy to fiction that unsettles and transforms, everything we produce is shaped with care, intention, and a commitment to meaningful storytelling.
Alongside our publishing work, we are deeply rooted in our local community. We run a range of creative writing workshops and groups across the Isle of Wight, including a women’s writing group, children’s sessions delivered through Artswork, and targeted workshops supporting children’s mental wellbeing. Our heritage projects explore place, identity, and lived experience, bringing together voices from across the Island.
Together, this work forms a wider mission: to make writing accessible, empowering, and relevant to the communities we serve. You can read more about our impact and activity in our Activity Report.
Every book we publish is chosen with purpose. We champion underrepresented voices and writers who have faced barriers to traditional publishing. Our aim is simple: to create space for stories that might otherwise go unheard, and bring them to the forefront with clarity and care.
By Jason Watts
A quiet ritual. A whispered tradition. A story carried on the hum of wings.
Pre-order Offer
Available now for ÂŁ4.00 (RRP ÂŁ5.00) until 1st April.
Telling the Bees is a beautifully crafted A6 micro booklet that draws on the old folklore practice of speaking to bees in times of loss, love, and change. In this delicate and evocative piece, Jason Watts explores memory, grief, and the fragile threads that connect us to the natural world.
Perfect for slipping into a pocket, gifting to a friend, or returning to in quiet moments, this micro booklet offers a brief but resonant reading experience—one that lingers long after the final page.
Printed in a compact A6 format, this edition is part of our micro booklet series: small in size, but rich in atmosphere and meaning.
By Daphne Harries
Three Strikes is a lyrical and haunting micro-booklet by Welsh and Australian poet Daphne Harries. Rooted in matriarchal memory, folklore and the emotional landscapes of mountains and water, this collection of three interconnected poems circles the Welsh folktale of Llyn y Fan Fach.
Each poem reflects a different echo of the myth: the strike of separation, the strike of memory and the strike of return. Together, they form a quiet braid of longing, inheritance and reclamation, exploring what we carry in our bodies, what we lose through distance and silence, and what the land remembers even when we forget.
Daphne’s voice feels both ancient and sharply contemporary. In these poems she revisits the mother at the lake’s edge, the pull of home that lives in the body, and the intimate relationships between language, identity and place. Lines linger long after reading, moving through folklore, family and the blurred spaces between what is inherited and what is reclaimed.
Daphne Harries is a Welsh and Australian poet currently studying English at Oxford. Her work often dwells on matriarchs, mountains and bogs, shaped by myth, land and memory. When she is not writing, she enjoys tea, fantasy literature and naps.
Three Strikes is part of the Lemon Pip micro-booklet series from Lemon Jelly Press.
By Heidi Hinda Chadwick
An enchanting tale where Manchester’s familiar streets tilt toward the uncanny. The Story of the Deer Woman is a strange, sensual and fiercely imaginative novella from writer and performer Heidi Hinda Chadwick.
After a chance encounter inside the Manchester Museum, an ordinary woman finds her life beginning to unravel in wild and impossible ways. Reality blurs. Desire stirs. Antlers bloom. What follows is a journey into metamorphosis, myth and the hidden animal inside us all.
Chadwick’s writing is vivid, lyrical and daring. Influenced by the unsettling brilliance of Mona Awad, Bora Chung, Sayaka Murata and Ottessa Moshfegh, she creates a world where the macabre meets the human, where power and eros live at the edges, and where the strange becomes a kind of truth.
This is the first adult fiction title from Lemon Jelly Press, chosen for its bold heart and its commitment to amplifying unheard and marginalised voices. A story that is unsettling, beautiful and unforgettable.
For release August 15th.
More than fifty writers. One unforgettable final line.
From lyrical poetry and literary fiction to flash fiction and experimental prose, every piece in this unique anthology ends with the same haunting sentence:
“By morning, the sea had taken it.”
The result is a remarkable collection of voices from around the world, each taking the reader somewhere entirely unexpected. Together, these poems and stories explore love, loss, memory, mystery, hope, humour, and the many ways a single line can transform a narrative.
A celebration of imagination and the endless possibilities of storytelling, this pamphlet proves that while every ending may be the same, every journey is completely unique.
As a Community Interest Company, Lemon Jelly Press develops creative projects that support and celebrate our local community. From school workshops and literacy programmes to opportunities for people to share their stories, our projects use writing and publishing to bring people together and amplify voices that deserve to be heard.
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