An independent press and practice · London
Kindred Orange
An embodied writing experiment for kindred souls remembering how original and bright they are.
Est. 03/06/2026 · London
Opening the orangery
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An independent press and practice · London
An embodied writing experiment for kindred souls remembering how original and bright they are.
Est. 03/06/2026 · London
The 333 · Round one opens 3 August
Good. Then nobody's watching while you get brilliant. 33 days. 33 minutes a day. 3, 33 or 333 lines, your choice, fresh every day.
The 333 is a 33 day embodied writing experiment for people who want to write and never quite start: no contacts, no confidence, no time, no idea where it would even go. Every morning for 33 days, one email arrives with everything in it. A short practice settles your body, because the block was never in the writing, it was in the body doing the writing. Then you write 3, 33 or 333 lines and show nobody. No feed, no comparing, no performing.
By day 33 you hold a real body of work, a first circle of writers who did it beside you, and a published Spotlight interview with your name, your bio and your links. Other challenges hand you prompts and a hashtag. This one hands you a nervous system that lets you write, and public proof that you did. £33. No cap, no countdown. A new round opens every month.
OJ Press · Nº 001 · Limited first printing
Poems · Kirsty Opal
OJ Press · Nº 001
Kirsty Opal
Dandelions are meant to fly
Pollens born, to be a guideline
Whether by wind or baited breath
Attraction lands first on fertile earth
And we are all, made of star signs
Cause in the up high, there are flight trails
But no lines.
Lines by Kirsty Opal
First printing · numbered & signed
The writing
Essays, dispatches and the occasional confession. Free to read, no paywall, no pop-up begging.
Pulp is where Kindred Orange thinks out loud: culture, making, and what it costs to do either honestly. Start anywhere. Bring a drink.
The idea
This is for two writers. The one who can't get in: no contacts, no MA, no clever route to anyone who'd say yes. And the one who can't justify it: who won't spend a life crafting something that might never sell while the rent's due. Usually they're the same person.
Kindred Orange is the other way round. A press and practice built body-first: you settle your nervous system, you write, you show no one until it's finished, and then we do the pointing. Publication over performance, in print and online. No feeds, no follower counts, nobody shouting. Writing leads the house. Music and the rest join later, once the writing has paid its way.
Collaboration over competition.
Body first. Words second.
Publication over performance.
Get expressed, published and paid.
Company over content.
Pulp · Open call · Applications
This is an application to be featured on Pulp. Poems, essays, photographs, songs, comics, anything you made and mean.
To be clear about what this is: you're applying for a feature on Pulp, our Substack. If chosen, your piece runs under your name with your bio and your links, presented properly to people who read. You keep every right to your work. We never own it, we point at it. Not every application gets featured, and we read everything that comes in. The reading fee is a bag of oranges, £3, and the money goes to Kindred Orange: it buys the reading time and keeps the lights on. If we don't choose your piece, that's what your £3 did.
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Kirsty Opal · London
The founder
Writer, musician, Certified Trauma-Informed Sexological Bodyworker and Embodiment Coach, and the founder of Kindred Orange.
The credentials, plainly: I'm a certified, trauma-informed practitioner with years of one to one client work behind me, a self published novelist whose debut outsold every expectation set for it and quarterfinaled at ScreenCraft, and a reader of thousands of books, literally thousands. I've spent years working with people on the gap between knowing you have something and not knowing how to make it real. Kindred Orange is what I built to close it: a press, an open door, and a body of practice for getting the thing out of you and into the world. I'm Nº 001 on our own press because somebody had to go first.
And the honest bit: I'm not a social butterfly with a pre-built audience. What I've got is determination and audacity, and as far as I can tell that's the whole recipe. So let's do it together.
Apparently the way you make friends is to get them to do you a favour. I'm more of a giver and a people pleaser by nature, but Kindred Orange was built to find creative kindred souls, so here goes nothing: tell one writer about The 333, send us your best, or put a bag of oranges in the bowl. Early believers get remembered. You'll be on the register from day one.
One to one · The practice
The body-first practice that opens every day of The 333, gone deeper. One to one, for writers who are stuck and tired of thinking their way out of it.
The block is rarely in the writing. It's in the body doing the writing. That's the whole logic of this house, and when 33 minutes a day isn't enough, this is where it goes deeper: one to one, in London or online, three ways.
Hands-on, trauma-informed sessions for what thinking can't reach. Slow, consented, and led by what your body's already telling you.
£113 · 90 minutes · The Practice Rooms, King's CrossNot wishing. Rehearsal. You practise the life you want in your posture, your voice and your nervous system until it stops feeling like a costume.
£33 · Online onlyThree 45 minute sessions, online, at the practice rooms in King's Cross or in professional studios. You leave with a personalised report to act on: branding, direction and development ideas for what you make.
£333 · Three sessions + your reportThe first conversation costs nothing.
Support
Like what we do and want to help us do more? Buy us an orange.
Kindred Orange runs on what it sells and on people who want it to exist. There's no membership to buy and no gate to get through. Everything here is open. A bag of oranges is £3 and the bowl is always out. You'll be thanked on the register, our public list, unless you'd rather not.
The nights
Readings, jams and open rooms across London. Nothing to prepare, nobody filming you, everybody in.
Date to come
The first Kindred Orange night is being built now. Ask to be told first and you will be.
Venue · London
Date to come
Details land here when they're real and not before.
Venue · London
Date to come
Details land here when they're real and not before.
Venue · London
The point of all this
Kindred Orange exists to make that sentence true for as many makers as it can carry, without metrics, feeds or anyone shouting. If that sounds like your kind of place, the door's open and it costs an orange.