Category: News!
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We’re having a poetry party!
Urban Pigs Press are opening our first call for poetry. We are lucky to have the more than capable services of Virginia Betts joining us as feature editor for June. Virginia is a successful writer, performer and poet from Ipswich, UK. We’re honoured to open up our doors for poetry…
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It’s Re-Release Day!
Urban Pigs Press Rereleases Parochial Pigs by James Jenkins I’m really excited to announce that my debut novel Parochial Pigs has been rereleased by Urban Pigs Press. I owe a massive thanks to Red from Alien Buddha Press for giving me and pigs a home for the past couple years.…
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Thank you for helping us make a difference
Today was one of the most humbling experiences of my life. I suppose I was a bit naïve thinking that I was just dropping off the funds raised so far from The Hunger Anthology. A quick hello and “here’s £250, thanks for everything you do”. I mean it was pretty…
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Interview with LG Thomson
Greetings LG, thank you for taking part in this interview and even more so for contributing to our cause. Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m an author and artist living in Ullapool, a small fishing village on the North West coast of Scotland on the same latitude…
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Interview with Mark Burrow
Hi Mark. You’ve been a great help to us in the run up to release. I really appreciated your edits in the anthology. Working with people like yourself really sums up the love in the writing community. I also want to thank you for taking part in this interview and…
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Release day!
We at Urban Pigs Press are buzzing to announce the release of our charity anthology ‘Hunger – In aid of FIND – Families in Need‘. This has been an incredible journey for us and one that has taught us many new things. Aside from the publishing process, we’ve been incredibly…
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Interview with Rob Walton
Hello Rob. It’s great to have you onboard with the Hunger anthology. Thank you for taking part in this interview, can you tell us a little a bit about yourself? I grew up in Scunthorpe and moved to Newcastle to study, and now live in Whitley Bay on England’s north-east…
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Interview with Jude Potts
Jude, welcome and thank you for taking part in this interview and for contributing to our cause. You have captured the exact essence of our chosen charity FIND with you story, ‘Marginalia; or If This Is Supposed To Be Levelling Up The Tories Need a New Spirit Level’. You also…
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Interview with Matthew McGuirk
Hi Matt, We’re very honoured to have you onboard. I’m a big admirer of your writing and your nothing but supportive of other writers. Your contribution is a beautiful piece of writing with an edge of darkness. Exactly what drew me to your style in the first place. With that…
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Interview with Cassie Premo Steele
Hi Cassie, Thank you for answering our call and contributing to our cause. Can you tell us and our readers a little a bit about yourself? I am a queer, ecofeminist poet, novelist and essayist living in the deep red south of the United States with my wife, dog and…