Red Squirrel Press

​Red Squirrel Press is a Scotland-based independent self-funded small press. It was founded in April 2006 by Sheila Wakefield and has published over 300 titles to date, poetry pamphlets and full collections.

It showcases young poets such as Claire Askew and Andrew McMillan as well as more established names like James McGonigal and Tim Turnbull. 

Red Squirrel Press has published poetry in Gaelic, Scots, Doric, Shaetlan, Orcadian, Irish, Danish, Italian, German, Flemish, Romanian, Kannada and English. 

Red Squirrel Press was shortlisted three times for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for poetry pamphlet publishers. 

Sheila Wakefield founded Postbox Press, the literary fiction imprint of Red Squirrel Press in 2015, publishing short story collections and Postbox, Scotland’s International Short Story Magazine (biannual) in 2019. Colin Will, short story writer, poet, editor and former publisher, was Editor of Postbox Press 2015-2023 and Postbox magazine 2019-2023. Samuel Tongue, poet, writer, editor and workshop leader, became Editor of Postbox magazine in 2024.

Shelley Day’s debut collection of stories, ‘What Are You Like’ won the prestigious £10,000 Edge Hill Short Story Prize in 2020, the first book of mainly flash fiction to be shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. 

Postbox Press published a short story collection in Doric, ‘Mysie & Other Stories’ by Mary Johnston in 2021. 

Tringa Press was founded in 2024 for nature writing and related memoir. It is not open to submissions.

All publications for Red Squirrel Press, Postbox Press and Postbox Magazine and Tringa are designed and typeset by poet and editor Gerry Cambridge except Tim Turnbull’s ‘Silence and Other Stories’.

The most recent publications are highlighted at the bottom of this page.

Please browse our catalogue for details of titles in print.

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