@SpaceCatPress

Indie press navigating the space where imagination and reality collide. Space History, spooky sci-fi & foresty fables.

 Leicester UK
spacecatpress.co.uk/
Joined July 2019
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We're really buzzing to join #Leicester Central Library on Thu. 5th Dec. 6.30pm for their FREE Winter's Tale event. Bringing a Space Cat bookstall, foresty fables, spooky sci-fi & some of our favourite frosty reads to share! Warm yourselves on stories & poems. ❄ 📚 🔥 🌲 🤗
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Don't miss our popup bookstall @Leicester Central Library on Sat. 12th Oct. We have Autumn Bonfire sale of all titles at Local Writers Fair 10am onwds. So while stocks last, bag a copy of any Space Cat book at HALF-PRICE! Pop by for chat, browse & free bookmark. 🐈 📚 🍂 😺
Leicester Libraries and Community Centres@leicesterlibrar1 Oct 2024
Local Writers' Fair Saturday 12 October, 10am - 3.30pm Leicester Central Library Browse stalls and meet these and many other local authors and publishers. Copies of their books will be available to buy at the fair. #GreenLibrariesWeek
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We’ve had an absolute blast flying this small press from 2019. And are very proud of the 5 beautiful books we produced with your help during that time. A big thank you to all the wonderful writers we worked with, artist Sally Barnett and our loyal readers. You made it a joy!
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Despite that, our personal / work circumstances have changed dramatically so it feels a natural time for us to wind down this project. We're closing our website shop now but will continue to sell books at occasional pop-up events. So do come say hi if you see us in the book wild!
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Hi Space Cats. We’re calling home to tell you our little indie press rocket is docking permanently from here on. You will still see us at a few pop-up events, such as Leicester Libraries Local Writers Fair on Sat. 12th October. But we won’t be doing any new publishing.
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Wow! 5 years since we joined X. And more importantly, since we launched our little indie press rocket. Tho' currently docked in hiatus (due to illness & new job), we hope to come back better. Big wave to all our wonderful authors & readers in meantime. Thank you! #MyXAnniversary
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Mslexia ✨@Mslexia8 Jul 2024
Today is the final day to send us your submissions for consideration for Issue 103! ✨ We can't wait to read what you've written! ✨ mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-wo… #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
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"Alice Through The Looking Glass" at Guildford Castle in England This sculpture is located in Guildford’s Castle Grounds in a walled garden behind the bowling green, near the house that Lewis Carroll used to rent. It was created by sculptor Jeanne Argent.
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Another Friday, another excuse for sharing! If you want some reads, check out and follow the journals and zines below. #FF 💙 @BafflingMag @darkwinterlit @ghudsavar @HeartlinesSpec @IntFlightPress @pharelitmag @ReckoningMag @SMFSocy @SpaceCatPress @Wastelandlitmag
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Another one for the @SpaceCatPress album. Ship's cat having some downtime. This is very much my energy level at mo. ☺
Siobhan Logan@siobsi17 Jun 2024
Finished my drawing of Snowflake Snoozing with white pastel pencil & chalk. You can imagine trying to comb the knots out of that fur while she is swiping with her claws. But all peaceful here. ✏ 😽
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We're so disappointed to be missing @StatesofIndie today. But @siobsi is ill & Darragh works Saturday. So no @SpaceCatPress stall. 😿 But do enjoy this fabulous FREE Indie publishing festival if you're in Leicester @dmuleicester. 📚 🤗
States of Independence@StatesofIndie22 May 2024
Join the #indie revolution on Saturday 8th June to celebrate independent publishing at @dmuleicester We'll be in fabulous company with are co-conspirators @DahliaBooks @LongbarrowPress @SpaceCatPress @NeemTreePress @FiveLeavesBooks @intergraphiabks and more! #smallpress
States of Independence is an annual one-day festival that celebrates indie publishing. Now in its 15th year, States 24 will be hosted by the Leicester Centre for Creative Writing at DMU and our industry partner, Dahlia Books. As ever, our ‘Book Festival In a Day’ on Saturday 8th June 2024 will be open to the public and FREE to all. Our theme this year is writing beyond the page: on the screen, in the galleries, in archives, in music, in collaboration. Novelist and screen writer Louise Doughty will be delivering our keynote, and literary agent Philippa Sitters will be offering 1-2-1s. Join us for workshops and bookstalls galore!

ALT States of Independence is an annual one-day festival that celebrates indie publishing. Now in its 15th year, States 24 will be hosted by the Leicester Centre for Creative Writing at DMU and our industry partner, Dahlia Books. As ever, our ‘Book Festival In a Day’ on Saturday 8th June 2024 will be open to the public and FREE to all. Our theme this year is writing beyond the page: on the screen, in the galleries, in archives, in music, in collaboration. Novelist and screen writer Louise Doughty will be delivering our keynote, and literary agent Philippa Sitters will be offering 1-2-1s. Join us for workshops and bookstalls galore!

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Siobhan Logan@siobsi3 Jun 2024
Still struggling to get over latest bout of post-viral fatigue. But cheered myself up with a morning drawing @SpaceCatPress in chalk. Love how Snowflake's fur pops against the black paper. To be continued... ✍
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A slice of peace and nature found on a #walk in Balby 🌲
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Write their story. #writingprompt #prompt #writing #weekendwriting
An astronaut driving a motorcycle in Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA. Image credit: Bradley Dunn (https://unsplash.com/@bradleycdunn)

ALT An astronaut driving a motorcycle in Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA. Image credit: Bradley Dunn (https://unsplash.com/@bradleycdunn)

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What is your main character doing here? #writingprompt #prompt #writing #wednesdaywriting
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#DidYouKnow that hibernating grizzly bears breathe only once about every 45 seconds 🐻
Photo of a sleeping black bear in Custer, SD, USA Image credit: Stephanie LeBlanc (https://unsplash.com/@sleblanc01)

ALT Photo of a sleeping black bear in Custer, SD, USA Image credit: Stephanie LeBlanc (https://unsplash.com/@sleblanc01)

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Write their story. #writingprompt #prompt #writing #weekendwriting
Fine art portrait of a model wearing a Victorian neck collar. Image credit: Houcine Ncib (https://unsplash.com/@houcinencibphotography)

ALT Fine art portrait of a model wearing a Victorian neck collar. Image credit: Houcine Ncib (https://unsplash.com/@houcinencibphotography)

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The worst disaster in nuclear power generation history occurred #OTD in 1986. The explosion at Chernobyl contaminated 150,000 square km of land across 3 countries. This wry #ForestOfBarkAndBone tale by Phillip Temples is set in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone: spacecatpress.co.uk/shopfron…
Oleksiy had the Zone more or less to himself. Everything had long since reverted back to a wild state. Once there were rules or regulations, and people to enforce them. Thankfully, that was no longer the case. Now there was no one to tell him what he could or couldn’t do. He lived here alone, save for the animals. Occasionally, an expedition would wander into the Zone to collect dirt and plant specimens but they never lingered. His home was an abandoned metal shack on the outskirts of the forest.

ALT Oleksiy had the Zone more or less to himself. Everything had long since reverted back to a wild state. Once there were rules or regulations, and people to enforce them. Thankfully, that was no longer the case. Now there was no one to tell him what he could or couldn’t do. He lived here alone, save for the animals. Occasionally, an expedition would wander into the Zone to collect dirt and plant specimens but they never lingered. His home was an abandoned metal shack on the outskirts of the forest.

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What is your main character doing here? #writingprompt #prompt #writing #wednesdaywriting
Photo of a forest of lava trees resulting from eruption of a 1-km-line of vents east of Pu'u Kahaulea on Hawai'i Island's Kilauea Volcano. Image credit: USGS (https://unsplash.com/@usgs)

ALT Photo of a forest of lava trees resulting from eruption of a 1-km-line of vents east of Pu'u Kahaulea on Hawai'i Island's Kilauea Volcano. Image credit: USGS (https://unsplash.com/@usgs)

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#DidYouKnow that corals are animals 🪸 Coral reefs are made up of colonies of hundreds to thousands of tiny, soft-bodied organisms called polyps.
Photo of a reef and a school of orange fish in Okinawa sea. Image credit: Hiroko Yoshii (https://unsplash.com/@hiro0718)

ALT Photo of a reef and a school of orange fish in Okinawa sea. Image credit: Hiroko Yoshii (https://unsplash.com/@hiro0718)

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#DidYouKnow that more than half of the world’s animals live in rainforests.
Photo of a monkey in Khao Sok National Park, Amphoe Phanom, Surat Thani, Thailand Image credit: Lukas Scheuter (https://unsplash.com/@lukasscheuter)

ALT Photo of a monkey in Khao Sok National Park, Amphoe Phanom, Surat Thani, Thailand Image credit: Lukas Scheuter (https://unsplash.com/@lukasscheuter)

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