Forthcoming titles from Valley Press
A useful list for authors and onlookers
Hi folks! 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 13th January 2025.
Titles are listed in order of production priority, not release date – so when I sit down at my desk, I see if there’s anything I can do to advance the first one 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 other stakeholders too.
I’ve also noted the genre and format (paperback or hardback) of each release, as well as whether the title will be available to the trade on a sale-or-return basis (look for SOR) – the infrastructure to offer that is now hugely expensive, but I know the lack thereof can be a deal-breaker for some bookshops, so we offer it whenever feasible.
Finally, in parenthesis, I’ve noted the expected release date, where there is one, and whether the title will be published through our Lendal Press imprint – though at time of writing, the imprint has only just been re-opened for submissions, so there aren’t too many of those yet.
Plenty to look forward to!
Di Slaney, January conversations, with dogs – illustrated poetry pamphlet, paperback (January 2025)
Dean de la Motte, Oblivion – historical fiction, paperback (reissue) (February 2025)
The Northern Gravy Anthology of Fiction, ed. Nick Jones – short stories, paperback (March 2025)
The Northern Gravy Anthology for Children, ed. Jonny Syer – poetry/short stories, paperback (March 2025)
The Northern Gravy Anthology of Poetry, ed. Ralph Dartford – poetry, paperback (March 2025)
James Nash, Notes of Your Music – poetry, hardback, SOR (April 2025)
Nora Chassler, The Noracle – prose/poetry, paperback
Helen Burke, Today the Birds Will Sing – poetry, paperback (reissue)
Amy White, Hiking for Healing – travel/self-help, hardback
Claire Seeber, The Things That Will Save Us – historical fiction, hardback
John Farquhar, Warrington Poems (title TBC) – poetry, paperback, SOR [Lendal]
Anne Caldwell, The Language of Now – poetry, paperback
Zack Rogow, The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens – poetry, paperback, SOR (October 2025)
Maithreyi Hughes, Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country – poetry, paperback, SOR
Rosie Driffill, In Berlin (title TBC) – poetry pamphlet, paperback
Di Slaney, Hard Graft – poetry, hardback, SOR
Susan Furber, What Other Years Have Done – literary fiction, paperback, SOR
Beyond the Walls 2025 – poetry/prose, paperback [Lendal]
York Literary Review 2025 – poetry/prose, paperback [Lendal]
Gina Challen, Outside in the Night – short stories, paperback
Katy Mahon, The Cry – poetry pamphlet, paperback
Zoë Green, Map, Compass, Key – poetry, paperback, SOR
Hilary Elder, Here I Am Hello World – children’s poetry, paperback
Nancy Anne Miller, Missing Hurricanes – poetry, paperback