Middle Distance emerged, like many good things do at VUP, from our daily morning coffee meeting. We were discussing our literary magazine Sport, and thinking it might be time for it to evolve into som…

We launched the magnificent How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems by Kate Camp on Wednesday 9 September. Below is the official launch speech by Maria McMillan – fellow poet…

This month we were happy to publish Second Person, the debut poetry collection by Rata Gordon. Rata answered some questions about the collection and the writing process.There is a noticeable amount of…

Last week during the lockdown we launched Breton Dukes's new collection of short fiction What Sort of Man on Reading Room. Here Breton answers some questions about the collection and his writing…

Madison Hamill's first book, a collection of essays called Specimen, was recently launched at Unity Books. Here she answers a few questions about the book.In your author’s note you say ‘sometimes tell…