About Peakrill Press

Peakrill Press is a very small publishing company, based in a little off-grid cottage in the North Pennines, "England's Last Wilderness", about 40 miles south of the Scottish border.

Peakrill was founded in 2022 by Dan Sumption, to publish 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.

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

(I'm not an inhabitant of the Peak District, and never have been, but I lived 23 years in Sheffield, and the Peak District inspired the roleplaying game world that I was writing at the time, out of which came Nice Weather for Fish).

Our current catalogue contains a diverse assortment of books, zines and prints covering an even more diverse range of topics: we don't stick to any one theme – we publish fiction (of indeterminate genre), non-fiction, games, art, poetry, comics, zines... anything which takes our fancy.

We value collaboration, and most of the things we publish contain the work of more than one person. We also believe that creativity thrives on improvisation, and so we rarely start work on a project with a fixed idea of how it will end up. Emergent properties are where it's at!

We do not accept unsolicited submissions, we find that the best ideas will somehow make their way to us. If you want to be published by Peakrill, your best bet is to make friends with Dan and come up with an idea which sounds unpublishable. 

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