About Peakrill Press

Peakrill Press is a very small publishing company, based in "England's Last Wilderness", a little south of the Scottish border.

Founded in 2022 by Daniel Sumption, Peakrill emerged from a zine jam and quickly evolved into a playground for the strange and speculative. The press thrives on collaboration, improvisation, and creative serendipity, producing works that range from the whimsical to the unsettling.

The subjects of our books veer from reimagined folklore to political satire; urban walking guides to stories about the unbearable lives of clowns; roleplaying adventures set in spectral forests to collections of photos set in after-hours nightclubs. Folklore, psychogeography, surreal humour, and indie roleplaying seem to be recurring themes. But we consider ourselves genre-adventurous: we laugh at boundaries, and are at our happiest when publishing the unpublishable.

We do not accept unsolicited submissions. If you wish to be published by Peakrill, first find a talking spider, then whisper your proposal to them under a crescent moon; we will get back to you by firefly.

Peakrill's first publication was Mostly Harmless Meetings, the result of a #SideQuest zine jam. Another zine jam led to Learning to Draw Trees, and then the Inner City Round Walk of Sheffield by Terry Howard was the first book we published by someone other than Dan Sumption.

Peakrel (also Peakrill, Peakril) – Pronunciation /ˈpiːkr(ə)l/  – NOUN, rare British – An inhabitant of the Peak District.

(Peakrill are not based in the Peak District, but Dan lived 23 years in Sheffield, and the Peak District inspired the roleplaying game world that he was writing at the time, out of which came Nice Weather for Fish).

Peakrill's corporate HQ, in the North Pennines 

 

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