The Womancraft Publishing story

Womancraft Publishing was founded on the revolutionary vision that women and words can change the world. We act as midwife to transformational women’s words that have the power to challenge, inspire, heal and speak to the silenced aspects of ourselves.

We share powerful new voices with new visionary ideas, empowering our readers to actively co-create cultures that value and support the female and feminine. This to us is deeply exciting and powerful work.

Treasured as “life-changing” by women around the world, we have been proudly publishing beyond patriarchy since 2014. We are proud that many of our books have been Amazon #1 bestsellers in their fields and have won many prizes including Nautilus Awards, becoming new classics in their field. Some of our best-known books include:

• Lucy H. Pearce’s Burning Woman, Moon Time and Creatrix: she who makes
• Sarah Robinson’s Kitchen Witch and Yoga for Witches
• Carly Mountain’s Descent & Rising  and Untamed Pleasure
• Liz Child’s Kelly’s Home to Her
• Sophie Messager’s The Beat of Your Own Drum

What makes a Womancraft book?

Each one is written by a woman who has walked the path before you.

No seven easy steps of self help-lite. No false prophets or gurus. No hard sells. No spiritual bypassing. No fake experts. No shiny influencers. No bland content creators.

Real, raw, grounded women.

Authentic voices.

Rooted in lived experience, hard won. Titrated with research.

Seasoned with soul.

Our books hold you as you navigate new stages of life. Ground you in herstory. In alternative narratives. Holding space for the nuance and complexity. Seeking new ways. Empowering creativity. Committed to kindness and care.

What sets our books apart is their focus on women’s lived experience. We value Feminine ways of knowing – the intuitive, the sensory and sensual, the embodied and personal revelation – as valid and valuable ways of knowing the world and ourselves. Our books centre the personal voice of the author as woman, grounded in her research and intellectual knowing – modelling woman as an authority in her own life, something so often dismissed, belittled or silenced in our culture.

To support this, we offer many free online communities connected to our titles, so that you can continue the journey of discovery in the company of like-minded women, long after you have closed the covers of the book.

Publishing Beyond Patriarchy

As we find ourselves in a time where old stories, old answers and ways of being are losing their authority and relevance, we at Womancraft are actively looking for new ways forward. Our books ask important questions. They are not a wholesale refusal our current cultural authorities – science, organised religion, academia – but rather saying “yes and…” What is missing from these perspectives? Who is missing? How partial are these current ways of knowing? What else is needed to ensure we have a more holistic understanding? What lies beneath which has been silenced or ignored? The answer to most of these questions is the female and the Feminine. This is what our books centre.

We aim to share a diverse range of voices, of different ages, backgrounds, sexual orientations and neurotypes, seeking every greater diversity, whilst acknowledging our limitations as a very small press. Each of our books is chosen personally by Lucy, and is hand-crafted through a creative and collaborative midwifery process.

Fairness and Integrity

At the heart of our Womancraft philosophy is fairness and integrity. Creatives and women have always been underpaid: not on our watch! Offer the best royalties in the business, up to 50%. We offer support and mentoring throughout the publishing process as standard. We use almost exclusively female artists on our covers, and as well as paying fairly for these cover images, offer a royalty share and promote the artists both in the books and online. We pay above the living wage to our employees and provide flexible working practices that centre family, menstrual and health needs. We pride ourselves on being fair, open and accountable. Our books have been #1 Amazon bestsellers in many categories, Nautilus and Women’s Spirituality Award winners.

Whilst far from perfect, we are proud that in our small way, Womancraft is walking its talk, living the new paradigm in the crumbling heart of the old: through financially empowering creative people, through words that honour the Feminine, through healthy working practices, and through integrating business with our lives, and rooting our economic decisions in what supports and sustains our natural environment and rejecting generative AI. We are learning and improving all the time. I hope that one day soon, what we do is seen as nothing remarkable, just the norm.

Giving and Receiving

We work on a full circle model of giving and receiving: reaching backwards, supporting Treesisters’ reforestation projects and the UNHCR girls’ education fund, and forwards via Worldreader, providing e-books at no-cost to education projects for girls and women in developing countries. Many of our books donate part of their royalties to support women’s charities. We donate many paperback copies to menstrual education projects, red tents, women’s groups and women’s libraries around the world including: India, South Africa, Haiti, USA, Canada, UK, Ireland and France… As we grow, we can give more back.

We build alliances with independent, women-run media outlets in order to share our books and help promote and support these important publications. We speak from our place within the circle of women, sharing our vision, and encouraging them to share it onwards, in ever-widening circles.

We are honoured that the Womancraft community is growing internationally year on year, seeding red tents, book groups, women’s circles, ceremonies and classes into the fabric of our world.

We Are the Change… Join Us!

We are the change we want to see in this world. Thank you for your presence in making this dream a reality.

• Pre-order our books direct from us and receive signed copies and exclusive pre-order goodies.
• Learn with us in our online classes.
• Tell your friends with us.
• Follow us on Instagram, Threads or Facebook.
• We invite you to join our Womancraft Facebook Community Group… to connect with other readers and our authors…  as well as dedicated Facebook groups for readers of: Creatrix; Yoga for Witches; Medicine Woman; Burning Woman; The Way of the Seabhean; She of the Sea.
• Do join our mailing list (below) to receive our free digital care package, as well as exclusive pre-order offers and discounts
• And consider contributing to our annual Womancraft Compendia.