Mother's Milk Books Blog

Dear friends and supporters, Today I'm sharing some sad news. After nine years of trading, and having spent the last few difficult months trying to keep things moving, I've come to the reluctant conclusion that I have to close Mother's Milk Books. Of course, many companies and industries are struggling at the moment, but running an indie press has ...

Now that all the contracts have been signed, sealed and delivered, I am delighted to be able to announce the authors of the upcoming The Forgotten and the Fantastical 5, which will be published either late this summer or autumn time. They are: Becky Cherriman Noel Chidwick Carys Crossen Donna Day Rosie Garland Kim Gravell Katie Gray Sarah Hindmarsh...

What a year 2016 has been. Enough has been written about the negatives (for the world in general, as well as the literary world) so instead I will focus on the positives. Please do feel free to add your own literary heroes/heroines in the comments below. And here’s to 2017!

I am very, very happy to be able to announce the results of the 2015 Mother’s Milk Books Writing Prize, which had as its theme ‘Love’ (in a family context). As there was an increase in the number of submissions compared with the first two years of the competition, with the quality of submissions as high as ever, the judges found it challenging (albeit in a good way) to make their choices. Keen-eyed readers will notice that this year, as well as the winning and commended pieces, as chosen by the poetry judge, Sarah James and the prose judge, Zion Lights, there is a ‘Publisher’s Choice’ as well. These were chosen by myself from the judges’ shortlist. Basically, these were pieces that I couldn’t bear to not publish in the anthology so I’ve treated myself to these “bonus” pieces.

It’s been an age since we’ve had a new post so I will do my best to do a succinct round-up of our 2015 highlights.