UCLAN Publishing

UCLan Publishing is an independent, trade children’s and adult fiction publisher based at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston. We are unique in our innovative approach to publishing, combining the best in publishing education with exciting live projects. Our current strategy is focused on expanding our list and creating a trustworthy brand, recognisable for brilliant stories, and immersive non fiction.

After we won the Times Higher Education Award for Excellence and Innovation, and also the IPG New Comer Award in 2019 we have been busy establishing our list, acquiring new exciting titles and integrating our commercial business even further into UCLan teaching practices. Our commercial arm directly feeds into the MA teaching. Students not only get to meet and work with our authors, illustrators and professional freelancers but they are involved with different aspects of the publishing process for each of our books.

We're also home to the Northern YA Literary Festival.

Publications

The Seamaiden’s Odyssey

A strange and beautiful sea-creature is brought into the marine sanctuary where Sasha works. The sea-girl is kept as an exhibit and for scientific research. But Sasha wants to know more about her – are there more of her kind? What sort of community does she come from? Does she have a family?

There is a Season

Join Kerri Cunningham, (also known as Murphy’s Sketches), as she guides you through the year in her first collection of poetry for children. Celebrating all that nature has to show us and the little things that we can enjoy together, this book encourages us to get outside and look for and talk about signs of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Dive into crunchy autumn leaves or wander through a summer meadow with Kerri’s poems and cosy, colourful illustrations – this is a book to treasure for ever.

WENDINGTON JONES AND THE MISSING TREE

Enola Holmes meets Indiana Jones in this epic story of mystery, adventure and learning to live with grief along the way.

INTO THE DARK FOREST

When war threatens her beloved city, Rowan and her mother must flee to the Dark Forest, meeting Grandpa and his white wolf Arto for the first time.

Contact Info

Hazel Holmes (School of Arts & Media) HHolmes3@uclan.ac.uk