Pilot Press is the imprint of artist Richard Porter. Started in 2017 as a gesture of solidarity against the darkness, the press is inspired by the collaborative spirit of the gay liberation movement and the radical, subversive history of artist's DIY publishing.

Since its first title, Not here: a queer anthology of loneliness, the press has shed light on queer and outsider lives in addition to highlighting key writers and artists from history. The AIDS Crisis and a radical sensibility that was lost informs a major part of the press's philosophy.

Throughout its almost ten year history, the press has published the work of a number of notable writers and artists, including:

Clay AD, Dodie Bellamy, Nick Blackburn, AA Bronson, Sholto Buck, Helen Cammock, CA Conrad, Ellen Dillon, Kenward Elmslie, Aaron Fagan, Katherine Franco, Robert Glück, Lubaina Himid, Philip Hoare, Derek Jarman, G.B. Jones, Joshua Jones, Hesse K, Hedi El Kholti, Kevin Killian, Wayne Koestenbaum, Olivia Laing, Zoe Leonard, Siobhan Liddell, Nate Lippens, Lee Mary Manning, Donna Marcus, Derek McCormack, Reverend Joyce McDonald, Sam Moore, D Mortimer, Cookie Mueller, Eileen Myles,Charlotte Northall, Paul P, Cecilia Pavón, Charlie Porter, J. H. Prynne, Nat Raha, David Rattray, Andy Riley, Lisa Robertson, Sarah Schulman, Kashif Sharma-Patel, Jack Spicer, Verity Spott, Abdellah Taïa, Anne Tallentire, Timothy Thornton, Scott Treleaven, John Wieners, Eley Williams, David Wojnarowicz and Matt Wolf. 

Pilot Press remains solo-run and receives no external funding or institutional support. It works with an independent distributor of artist's books, Public Knowledge Books, who are able to supply bookshops in the U.K. and around the world.

For bookseller enquiries about stocking the press's titles, please write to them at sales@publicknowledgebooks.com. For everything else, including orders from the website and requests for review copies, please email the press at pilotpresslondon@gmail.com.

Please note that as a team of one managing the daily running of the press with other work it may not be possible to respond to every message received. 

To support the press in its day to day work, please consider purchasing a fundraising edition, here.