Founded in 2002, Pighog is an award-winning publisher based in Brighton, England. We publish high-quality original work from a diverse range of regional, national and international voices. We are known for discovering exciting new talent and for our unique and distinctive publications. Our aim is to present high quality work through high quality presentation - in print, online and live. From over 120 entries Sarah Jackson's Milk was shortlisted for the prestigious Michael Marks Poetry Award for an outstanding work of poetry published in pamphlet form in the UK during 2008. We have also won a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice Award.

Our approach is eclectic. We do not back any particular literary ideology but prefer to offer our readers a stimulating choice of well-made work. Our artistic eclecticism is complemented by our dedication to regional voices. Our Sussex Series has brought attention to a group of writers who have been termed the 'Beach Generation'. We are now developing a series devoted to poets from Munster in Ireland. We have international connections with poets, publishers and organisations in Canada, India, Ireland, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Chile, Finland, Germany, Holland, Jamaica, Scandinavia, Slovenia, Spain and the USA.

We are committed to both traditional and new media publication. We are the first publisher to issue a book via Twitter, sending out a guide to writing poetry as a series of Tweets. In 2009, Pighog launched its first writing competition (for writers of fiction for children and young people) and in 2010 has taken over responsibility for Pulse: Brighton International Poetry Festival, which in 2010 was based around the literary weekend party Pigbaby.

Looking ahead, we are developing a new series for emerging poets (Pighog Passports) as well as pamphlet collections of short stories.

We believe that language is energy and that literary works harness that energy to create feeling, insight and imaginative experience to change minds and lives.

"Pamphlet poetry, for me, is one of the most revolutionary and exciting forms of art. Not least, because it bypasses fashion and establishment and social clique and gives an opportunity to everyone who thinks they have something good to say through poetry to try. That equally on the receiving end, it transcends the values of class and culture and even education, to reach anyone who has an art and desire to be human." - Lady Marks from her Inaugural Address to the 2008 Michael Marks Awards at the British Library.