The UKA Press
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UKA Press is an independent small press publisher based in the United Kingdom.Since its launch in January 2004, it has published a variety of poetry, full length novels, short story collections and non-fiction titles and received reviews in national newspapers, including one by Jon Courtenay Grimwood [1]in The Guardian [2] (Article: Right to Choose. February 26 2005). Formerly a joint venture between the UKAuthors.com [3] writing community and Bluechrome Publishing[4], The UKA Press is now independent and selects, edits and publishes its own list. The UKA Press state that their aim in publishing is to focus on the appealing qualities and significance of a project, as well as the literary and artistic merits of the writing, rather than looking first for precedent-proven commercial potential and quick profitability. The UKA Press is partly funded by voluntary subscriptions.
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[edit] UKA Press Authors
UKA Press authors include Kevin Brownlow, director of It Happened Here and Winstanley; author of The Parade's Gone By, and How It Happened Here (published by UKA Press) [5], amongst other films and books.
Other authors include:
- Tom Saunders (Brother, What Strange Place is This) [6]
- Ian Hocking (Deja Vu) [7]
- Theron Montgomery (The Procession) [8]
- Sheldon Goldfarb (Remember, Remember) [9]
- L.P. Stanley (At Midnight's Horus Feast) [10]
- Mark Turley (The Rainbow Maker) [11]
[edit] UKA Press Reviews and Author Awards
- Simon Leigh's [12] UKA Press book, "Wild Women" was reviewed by Paul Quarrington, Canadian writer and filmmaker, and Miles Kington [13] of The Independent, amongst others: [14]
- Sheldon Goldfarb ([15]) had his "Remember, Remember" [16] [17] nominated by the Crime Writers of Canada for their [18] 2006 Arthur Ellis Award [19] in the category of Best Juvenile novel in Canada. "Remember, Remember" was reviewed by, amongst others, Debra Hamel [20] of bookblog.com [21], The Grumpy Old Bookman [22] and M. Wayne Cunningham, Books in Canada [23]
- In 2006, UKA Press published Hilary Lloyd's [24] "A Necessary Killing" (described as "a gripping portrait of a modern tragedy" by Kate Long [25] 2005 The Times 'New Star of Fiction')
- Sherri Szeman, UKA Press author of "Love in the Time of Dinosaurs", and "Where Lightning Strikes: Poems of the Holocaust", will be published by UKA Press in 2006. Ms Szeman [26] is the author of award-winning and critically acclaimed books [27], such as "The Kommandant's Mistress" [28] [29](a novel), winner of the University of Rochester's Kafka Prize [30] for "best book of prose fiction by an American woman" (1994), and chosen as a New York Times Book Review' [31] "Top 100 Book of the Year". The New York Times Book Review described her writing as "...devastating...riveting...remarkable". Ms Szeman was winner of the Centennial Review Poetry Prize. [32]
- Theron Montgomery's "The Procession', published by UKA Press in 2005, was reviewed by Sena Jeter Naslund [33], -- author of AHAB'S WIFE [34] (finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction). Theron Montgomery Reviews: [35]
