About

Join us at Books on the Rise on Saturday 15th at 7pm for an evening with the writers behind London's newest and most exciting literary magazine DIE QUIETER PLEASE

After attending their thrilling launch party, Books on the Rise has decided to partner with DIE QUIETER PLEASE and bring the mag to Richmond Hill for a summer evening of poetry and short stories.

DIE QUIETER PLEASE is a new London-based literary magazine publishing early-career writers.

Maggots dance the Charleston at a North London house party. An irate husband testifies his wife is a witch. A university drop-out encounters the otherworldly in the days of Section 28. A junior white-collar tech worker is forced to reckon with the bathroom habits of middle-aged men. An English expat yearns for squirrels in LA… & more in DQP 001.

Reader bios:

Ashani Lewis is a novelist and short story writer living in London, whose writing has won the Tower Poetry Prize and the Alpine Fellowship Writing Competition, as well as being featured in Harper's Bazaar and Joyland. She was a winner of the London Writers Awards 2021 in their literary fiction category. Her debut novel Winter Animals, published by Hachette was described by Ceclie Pin (Wandering Souls, 2024) as 'A dreamlike, piercing examination of privilege, youth and freedom.'

Maxine Sibihwana is a London-based writer from Uganda. Her work explores love, shame, the home, queerness, and the questioning of religious rituals. She has been published in Notebook by MUBI, DIE QUIETER PLEASE, AFREADA, Lolwe and the James Currey Anthology of African Literature.

Ned Green is editor and co-founder of Toothgrinder Press, a multidisciplinary publisher specialising in experimental fiction, poetry and music. His poetry and prose have been published in HERO Magazine, Sticky Fingers anthologies, En Bloc and Nurture, and in 2020 he was one of five shortlisted for Culture Recordings' New Voice in Poetry Prize.

Will Kaye is a writer and comedian living in London. His debut story, Unleash Possibility, was published in DIE QUIETER PLEASE in 2024.