Red Squirrel Press (Scotland)

Red Squirrel Press was founded in 2006 and publishes poetry (full-length collections and pamphlets), crime fiction novels, novellas and non-fiction. It aims to publish new and neglected poets and writers.

Eleanor Livingstone's collection, Even the Sea, was shortlisted for London New Poetry Award and Red Squirrel Press was shortlisted for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award. Red Squirrel Press runs the annual James Kirkup Memorial Poetry Competition and a quarterly magazine, Drey featuring poetry, flash fiction, artwork, reviews and essays. Founder Sheila Wakefield is Managing Editor and Kevin Cadwallender is Scottish Commissioning Editor and Creative Editor of Drey magazine.

Scottish poets

Red Squirrel Press has published these Scottish poets:

  • Claire Askew
  • Kevin Cadwallender
  • Robin Cairns
  • Hazel Buchan Cameron
  • Chemical Poets
  • Colin Donati
  • Hardly Boys
  • Andy Jackson
  • Pippa Little
  • Jenny Lindsay
  • Eleanor Livingstone
  • Al Maloney
  • Nalini Paul
  • Nancy Somerville
  • Colin Will

Scottish poetry titles

Red Squirrel Press has published the following Scottish poetry titles in 2012:

Split Screen: poems inspired by film and television, edited by Andy Jackson (Scottish editor and some Scottish contributors)
 

Red Squirrel Press published the following Scottish poetry titles in 2011:

  •  Jenny Lindsay, The Things You Leave Behind
  •  Al Maloney, the harliquinade
  •  Claire Askew, The Mermaid and The Sailors
  •  Marion Montgomery, Lyart
  •  Kevin Cadwallender/Aidan Halpin, The South Face of Groucho Marx
  •  Stephen Barnaby, the self loathing ostrich tragedy
  •  Anne Connolly, Love in a mist
  •  Elizabeth Rimmer, Wherever We Live Now
  •  Pippa Little, The Snow Globe
  •  Graham Fulton, Full Scottish Breakfast

Submission guidelines

Please post six poems:  in Scotland, send to PO Box 23896 Edinburgh EH6 9AA, for rest of UK send to Holy Jesus Hospital City Road Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 2AS.

Contact details

www.redsquirrelpress.com