Small Press Futures, founded in 2025, is a
collaborative consortium of indepedent and
UK-based publishers and editors.
enquires@small-press-futures.info
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The Small Press Futures Bookshop
(Our first experiment / a call for support.)
Events & Workshops
(At the Small Press Futures Bookshop
and elsewhere.)
NewS
(Rolling updates and press coverage.)
An Open Letter
(How can the industry work together
to ensure the longevity of the UK’s
independent presses?)
Signatories
(An alphabetical directory of supporting /
participating publishers.)
Xerox
(An irregular column and/or blog from
the Small Press Futures publishers.)
The small press futures Team
(Core members and makers.)
¶ 15 independent presses /
one shared shop in Peckham /
opening (06.11.26), if we can
build it in time.
Donate to the Small Press Futures Bookshop here.
[...] Help us build
a bookshop run by the
publishers themselves.
Small presses publish some of the most adventurous, urgent and surprising books in Britain. We take risks on new writers, translated literature, experimental work, overlooked histories, and voices that might otherwise struggle to find a home. Between us, we’ve published Nobel laureates, prize-winning novels and writers noone else would take a chance on.
But behind many of the books readers love is an increasingly fragile ecosystem. Rising costs, tight margins and an industry built around scale make it harder for small publishers to survive and harder for their books to reach readers. Every press tries to solve the same problems alone.
In October 2025, a group of us published an open letter about the future of independent publishing in the United Kingdom. A year later, we’re turning that concern into collective action, something you can actually walk into.
The Small Press Futures Bookshop
This November and December, fifteen independent publishers are opening a cooperatively run bookshop at Copeland Park in Peckham, in a space generously provided by Peckham Platform, a creative and educational charity working with local communities and artists.
This will not be an ordinary bookshop. It will be run by the publishers themselves. Between us, we publish fiction, poetry, essays, translation, art books, political writing, experimental literature and work that expands what publishing can be.
We are bringing our books, our labour, our audiences and our experience into one shared space for books, events, and workshops.
A fundraiser
The participating presses have collectively contributed £2,800 of our own money, along with our books, our time and our labour. Having met our initial target of £5,000, we’re now hoping to raise £10,000 to support the bookshop and an events series, to open the doors on 6 November, and seek your support, little or large.
Donate to the Small Press Futures Bookshop here.
Shelves, storage and a till may sound ordinary, but they’re what allow hundreds of independently published books to reach readers. They are the physical infrastructure needed to turn an empty space into a functioning bookshop. See here for further details.
Contact
Sign up to our mailing list for further information, follow Small Press Futures on Instagram for updates, or email us via the address below with any queries or questions.
bookshop@small-press-futures.info