Category: News!
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Colin and Kieren run for e.a.c.h.
The adventure continues for these kind hearted but slightly crazy couple of buggers! We couldn’t be any prouder of Colin for putting his body through utter misery while we look on scoffing Xmas leftovers. This amazing charity piece is exactly what UPP are all about. Combining words with good deeds…
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Short Story Subs Open: ‘Revolt’
Urban Pigs Press is open for short story submissions! Mark Burrow will be running this one and the topic of choice is ‘Revolt’. Submissions should be between 800 and 2,000 words only. Please email Mark at Urbanpigspress@outlook.com with the title Revolt and attach your prose submission as a Word doc.…
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Thank You and Happy New Year!
It’s time strip down to your pants and count down the hours until every dog kicks off in the neighbourhood to the explosion of noise and a backing track of Auld Lang Syne. All this delivered by a smiling Jazz musician whose taste in music has been steadily declining since…
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Urban Pigs Virtual Reading on 7th Feb: Hunger
Urban Pigs is putting on a virtual event on Saturday 7th February (18:00 to 19:30 GMT). The theme of the event is ‘Hunger’, inspired by our anthology published in 2024. For anyone who has read the ‘Hunger’ anthology, you’ll know the topics range from gritty crime, realism, horror and everything…
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Christmas Lit List – Robinson Crusoe Maybe
Astride the hulk of a wrecked ship all his own, striding the ramparts of the fortress he built with his own hands, crouched drenched in blood beneath the temple he erected to himself, we present to you the man who made himself king and then god of the forgotten Archipelago…
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Christmas Lit List – Burnt Lungs and Bitter Sweets
In 1976, Hoagie, Toad, Toggie and Jonesy love the Sex Pistols, shopping trolleys and getting wasted. When boredom is a crime and sedation is the solution it’s never likely to end well. Cue the music and roll back the decades through misadventures in Amsterdam, disorder on the dance floor, a…
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Christmas Lit List – Driver
Rick Malone is dying, but not before one last ride. Travel with him through the seedy underworld of pimps, crooked cops and broken dreams in this transgressive noir novella. Driver should appeal to fans of James Sallis (Drive), as well as Horace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?Deeply introspective, Vice drags the rotting…
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Christmas Lit List – Murderapolis
Drug dealer Morris and his gangbangers terrorize the halls of the drug-scarred Northside High School. That is until Roble Engstrom, a struggling Somali-American teacher and family man, joins forces with an old-school coach, dubbed as “Captain Karate”. The pair embark on a relentless mission to rid the school and students…
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Christmas Lit List – Gutter Punch
Sam Carter’s new job as a private investigator is going to get him killed. The Hollywood sex scandals and all night partying might be exciting, but now the tabloid newspapers are after him, not to mention the deranged thugs. And that’s just his first week. Welcome to the world of…
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Christmas Lit List – Parochial Pigs
Book 1 in the Pigs Trilogy. Welcome to your darkest fears, your highest desires, your shaded, deepest concerns. Bobby Cavendish carefully unravels all his personal reservations and past mistakes within the most corrupt and desperate law-abiding disasters surrounding all his misgivings. Welcome to Colney – where you wish you could…
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