Contemporary Small Press

Encounters with Small Presses

Writer Charlie Hill on encounters with six different small presses.

Manual for a Decent Life

Annapurna Menon reviews Kavita A. Jindal's new book published by Linen Press.

Making Publishing Visible

A new book is forthcoming from The Contemporary Small Press Project.

Small Presses Impact International Booker Prize 2020

The International Booker Prize 2020 longlist sees small presses do the heavy lifting when it comes to translation with eight languages represented: Spanish, French, Farsi, Afrikaans, Norwegian, German, Japanese and Dutch.

Republic of Consciousness Shortlist 2020 Announcement

The Small Press Prize announces it's 2020 shortlist

Small Press Audiobook Project

There are surely many small press published books that you'd love to be able to listen to but this has been difficult until now!

Contemporary Small Press - The Year Ahead

Small press books are not just for Christmas. CSP plans for the year ahead.

London Indie Book Fair

The launch of the new Contemporary Small Press directory.

Small Presses Lead The Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist

Over half of the books shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize are published by small presses in a sign of their continuing influence on 21st century literature.

Contemporary Small Press New Website

The Contemporary Small Press is very pleased to welcome you to our new website! We hope it is open, accessible and of the moment, and that it leads you to the new and the stimulating.

Smaller Presses take Bigger Risks

In this blog post, Toby Litt writes about small presses and celebration.

The ‘Professionalization’ of the Small Press?

In this post Matvei Yankelevich, one of the founding editors of Brooklyn’s Ugly Duckling Presse, considers the way that the current institutions of ‘support’ for small presses in the US have the effect of pressurising small presses into giving up the modes of resistance and challenge that have been historically crucial to their existence.