19th November, 2022

Lara Cain Gray

Dr Lara Cain Gray is a specialist librarian with expertise in picture book translation, visual literacy and reading cultures. Her professional past spans roles in library and museum curatorship, academic teaching and research, and corporate and creative writing and editing. At present, she draws on her deep experience of international librarianship to deliver multilingual books and educational resources to remote and low-income communities with nonprofit publisher Library For All.

Recent Small Press News

November 2022

In conversation with BOTY shortlisted author Kavita Bedford

We had the most exciting opportunity to sit down with Kavita Bedford to ask about her debut novel, Friends & Dark Shapes, one of the shortlisted titles for the 2022 SPN Book of the Year Award.

November 2022

In conversation with BOTY shortlisted author Anwen Crawford

No Document (Giramondo) is a grief-stricken book that tries to locate presence within the material layers of loss, finding hope in art, kinship and collective action. Anwen Crawford balances the emotional charge of the book with thoughtful experiments in how to use the field of the page to express and contain the way grief can […]

November 2022

In conversation with BOTY shortlisted author Eleanor Jackson

Gravidity and Parity (Vagabond Press) is a poignant and intricate collection of poetry that guides the reader into the journey of motherhood, pulling no punches in how it addresses and details all that is often unsaid or unknown about pregnancy. The book is set during the COVID pandemic, and author Eleanor Jackson beautifully encapsulates this all-too-familiar […]

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