Space Cat Press was a small indie navigating the space where imagination and reality collided. Working on the edges of traditional publishing, we produced one to two books a year on a shoestring budget. Co-founders Siobhan and Darragh announced the press would be winding down operations from 18th September 2024, with no new titles to be published.
Founded as a non-profit venture in 2019, Space Cat Press was a collaboration between Siobhan Logan and Darragh Logan-Davies. Our first four books featured astronauts and aliens, Space Race rocketeers, comets and the origins of the solar system. From there, we aimed to embrace worlds both speculative and real, fantastical and familiar, historical and futuristic.
Inspired by the creativity and innovation of other indie presses, we wanted to publish diverse voices and mix it up genre-wise. Like Serenity in Firefly, our press was a nimble literary spacecraft welded together by commitment to our community, our Space Cat Stars. Every one of our books is a little rocket, crafted with care to transport you somewhere special.
You can read an interview with the Space Cat team on the Future Fire website here. More recently, Siobhan Logan was interviewed in the Winter issue 33 of the Shoreline of Infinity magazine in December 2022.
Siobhan Logan
Siobhan Logan is a storyteller and poet. Her first collection of poems and non-fiction, Firebridge to Skyshore: A Northern Lights Journey, was sponsored by auroral scientists at the University of Leicester. This was performed at the British Science Museum, the National Space Centre and Ledbury Poetry festival.
Mad, Hopeless & Possible: Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition, was also published by Original Plus Press, whilst Philae’s Book of Hours was published by the European Space Agency. When not being led astray by stories or dodging the claws of an errant ‘space cat’, Logan taught Creative Writing at De Montfort University.
Darragh Logan-Davies
Darragh Logan-Davies has always had a special place in her heart for the weird and wonderful world of speculative fiction. Born and raised in Ireland, she moved to the U.K. in 2018 with a Masters degree and a passion for making manuscripts the best possible versions of themselves.
Darragh is the Kaylee of the Space Cat module so you can generally find her tinkering around in its engine room, covering the flight plans in colour-coded notes, or preparing the latest literary rocket for lift-off.
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