WEAVER Press closed shop at the end of last year, bringing to an end a 25-year stint that spawned over two hundred titles. The independent publisher, formed by Irene Staunton and her husband Murray McCartney in 1998, published celebrated writers such as Shimmer Chinodya (Harvest of Thorns), the late Yvonne Vera (The Stone Virgins), the late Chenjerai…
Writers bemoan book industry regression…as Weaver Press closes shop

Weaver Press founders Irene Staunton and Murray McCartney