Smaller Sky Publishing 2000 - 2008

Smaller Sky.com is gradually being recast as a website dedicated to the work, and the life, of the Potteries and Oxford writer John Wain, with pages about the fine author Brian Glanville and others. Some history of Smaller Sky follows.

Smaller Sky was an independent paperback publishing house specialising in poetry and fiction. We still publish John Wain's two titles, "Selected Poems and Memoirs" and the 50th Anniversary edition of the seminal so-called Angry Young Man novel "Hurry On Down".

We had a success in 2000 with the last novel from the late William Cooper. We were then privileged to have original work from Brian Glanville and Keith Colquhoun on our books,  published a new selection of poems and memoirs from the former Angry Young Man John Wain, and had enquiries from new young writers  across the English-speaking world.

Will Wain, Managing Editor 2000 - 2008

Email us using "Editor(at)smallersky.com".

  Please note we no longer take submissions.

John Wain's Hurry On Down to be published in Chinese language edition by Yilin Press - John Wain's poem, Au Jardin Des Plantes, selected for Canadian anthology 'Penned" - Now in print - Jim Bridgen's "Waiting for Swallows" with cover artwork by Chris Wroe - contact Smaller Sky to purchase