Moist exists both to put a dampener on the mainstream 'literary' gatekeepers and to juice up the tentative fumblings that occur on the fringes. Art school, state school, and resolutely European (in a style that includes the British but not the Bloomsbury) Moist is always aroused and arousing and not always polite...

We publish three works of literary and/or experimental fiction, and/or creative non-fiction each year, often with a link to the visual arts. Our ideal books are not only stylistically innovative but also immediate and true to human experience no matter how weird, and designed - in every sense of the word - to form a conversation with each other.