Forthcoming titles from Valley Press
A useful list for authors and onlookers
Hello! This post is not going out via email; there’s not quite enough interesting content here for the masses, but I wanted to share a list of our forthcoming publications, and the blog felt like the right venue. The list will be edited frequently and kept up to date; it was last edited 3rd February 2025.
Titles are listed in order of production priority, not release date – a priority based on 1) when the author signed their contract, and 2) when they submitted their final typescript ready for editing, which I hope everyone can agree is the fairest method. When I sit down at my desk each week, I see if there’s anything I can do to advance the first project listed, and if not, move on to the second, then third, and so on.
As a result, the main audience for this post will probably be the authors named below, checking where they stand in the queue – but I hope it will be of interest to bookshops and readers too! If you’d like more information on a particular forthcoming title, please get in touch with Valley Press here. For details of our finished and published books, head to our online shop. Thanks for your support!
The Northern Gravy Anthology of Fiction, ed. Nick Jones – short stories, paperback
The Northern Gravy Anthology for Children, ed. Jonny Syer – poetry/short stories, paperback
The Northern Gravy Anthology of Poetry, ed. Ralph Dartford – poetry, paperback
James Nash, Notes of Your Music – poetry, hardback
Nora Chassler, The Noracle – prose/poetry, paperback
Amy White, Hiking for Healing – travel/self-help, hardback
Claire Seeber, What Will Save Us – historical fiction, hardback
John Farquhar, I Leant Upon a Copper Pipe: Warrington Poems – poetry, paperback
Zack Rogow, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens – poetry, paperback
Helen Burke, Today the Birds Will Sing – poetry, paperback (reissue)
Anne Caldwell, The Language of Now – poetry, paperback
Maithreyi Hughes, Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country – poetry, paperback
Rosie Driffill, Matchsticks in Berlin – poetry pamphlet, paperback
Gina Challen, Outside in the Night – short stories, paperback
Beyond the Walls 2025 – poetry/prose, paperback
York Literary Review 2025 – poetry/prose, paperback
Di Slaney, Hard Graft – poetry, hardback
Susan Furber, What Other Years Have Done – literary fiction, paperback
Katy Mahon, The Cry – poetry pamphlet, paperback
Zoë Green, Map, Compass, Key – poetry, paperback
Hilary Elder, Here I Am Hello World – children’s poetry, paperback
Nancy Anne Miller, Missing Hurricanes – poetry, paperback
Patrick Lodge, There You Are – poetry, paperback
Mark Blayney, This is Not a Pipe – poetry, paperback