After using the last few weeks to tidy up the residue of 2025 and getting ourselves as organised as we can,  Rochford Street Review is back for another year of independent publishing in 2026. Thanks to generosity of our wonderful readers and supporters during our annual Keep Alive Appeal we now have enough funds to pay for our major web hosting, email and storage costs for another year. We thanked them publicly in an early post but here is the roll of honour – these people and organisations are why Rochford Street Review is still publishing:

Entirely Beautiful Books, Pat Woolley, Glen Hunting, Lisa Mckimmie, Ian Gibbins, Stephen Meyrick, Kirsten Tona, Alana Kelsall, Mark Tredinnick, Michael Witts, Arnold Van Son, Leonie Bingham, Bronwyn Rodden, Peter Frankis, Josh Koch, Adam Aitken, Bernie Janssen, Isobel Maria Bonar, Emilie Collyer, Robyn Rowlands, Ashely Capes, Brian Purcell, Duc Sau, Alan FyFe, Janet Reinhardt, Barbara Temperton, Trish Dearborn, Davide Musgrave, Rosemary Wade, Anne Casey, Karen May, Daniel Dennis, Anna Couani, Jack Galmitz, Roslyn McFarland, Rebecca Cuschieri, Liquid Amber Press, Anne Hugo, David Ades, Mark Jones, Linda Adair, Mark Roberts, Robert Curran, Charles Wright, Elspeth Findlay, Sarah St Vincent Welch, Robbie Coburn and Helen Swain.

We are looking at ways at making ourselves for more sustainable over the course of the year with a view of getting back to a position where we can pay our contributors. Stay tuned for updates. In the meantime you have one last chance to donate to our current Keep Alive Appeal by clicking on the box at the bottom of this page.

The last few weeks have been particular busy for what is traditionally supposed to be the ‘holiday season’, with the biggest news/shock the collapse of Writers Week at the Adelaide Festival. Rochford Street Review has made it clear on social media that we stand with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and the writers and organisations that have withdrawn form Writers Week following the Festival Board’s ‘uninviting’ of Dr Abdel-Fattah – more on that shortly.

We will resume loading Issue 43 of the review from today. We are always looking for reviews, launch speeches and articles – if you are interested in writing for us please get in touch.

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