As publishers become more corporate, global and boring, IRON Press champions new quality writing as it has done since 1973. IRON runs events and launches, and thinks literature is both serious and fun.
THE IRON AGE
The only place to be on the week-end of May 17 - 19, 2013, is the little fishing village of Cullercoats on the North-East Coast. For three days the village will host celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of IRON Press, set up in 1973 when its founding editor Peter Mortimer was still in loons!
It's still early days on programming, but highlights thus far in a whole series of planned events include the launch of a new book of stories by the acclaimed NE author David Almond (whose first two books were published by IRON Press), a happening (it could be anything) by the one and only Ian McMillan, who is a former IRON Magazine asst. editor, a reading (if he is not whisked off abroad at the time) by Simon Armitage - who was first published in IRON Magazine, a poetry/music event in the sea-front chippy, and 'Sea Haiku', where local fishermen John Stocks will take volunteer writers out to sea in a series of journeys, the hope being the trips produce enough imaginative haiku for an IRON Press pamphlet.
All literary events will also include music from Cullercoats' large and impressive range of talented musicians. Watch this space for more developments. We hope to be able to offer writers cheap accommodation.
New from Iron Press
When Kafka Met Einstein
James Knox Whittet
This first full collection from Scottish poet James Knox Whittet combines the playful and the intellectual, moving easily between Wittgenstein and the Teletubbies. Some of Knox Whittet’s poetry is inspired by the landscapes and history of Scottish islands, while elsewhere he is at Newport Pagnell Service Station at 3am, or writing about Iris Murdoch’s Alzheimer’s. There is also a poem about the little-known fact that Hitler attended the same school as Wittgenstein.
More about When Kafka Met Einstein
Coming Soon: Animal Magic by Liz Brownlee: Poems on a disappearing world, Illustrated by Rose Sanderson
Call for submissions - ROOT - a collection of new fiction from the North-East . Read more here
WARNING!
Another company is using the name Iron Press, and this company is publishing a range of books aimed at young children. Many of these books contain basic and atrocious spelling errors, and we are regularly chastised for such sloppy work. The company has no link whatsoever to ourselves and is based in Bleasby, Nottinghamshire. Our own IRON Press, which has been publishing since 1973, is not a publisher of children's books. All our publications contain our full postal and email address, web site and phone number, plus our own flat iron logo.
Submissions - No unsolicited submissions please. We are a small press. We do not publish novels. Our range is poetry, (including haiku), collections of short stories, and anthologies of verse and prose. If you think you have something that might interest us, firstly email us with brief details. Thanks!
