High Pit Press for Cornish Books, Cornish Music and Cornish and Celtic Storytelling by Trevor Lawrence

High Pit Press has been created by Cornish Storyteller Trevor Lawrence to provide a channel for the publication and distribution of new Cornish Books and Cornish Folk Music which capture the unique essence of Cornwall. We are committed to ensuring that all publications are created, sourced and printed in Kernow. We welcome submissions from new writers, poets and musicians who are based within Kernow or who have strong Cornish cultural links. Like many new Cornish ventures we are small but determined and with the support of a growing interest in all things Cornish we are sure we will succeed!

Since the new millennium Cornwall has seen an increasing profile around the world and is rapidly regaining the reputation for creativity and innovation which in the past has led the arts and sciences alike. Through Cornish Music, new and old, Cornish Writing and Storytelling, High Pit Press aims to assist the renaissance of Cornish Culture.

What is hidden in a name?

Dialect: Cornish; ‘High pit’ an ambiguous obstacle; the cause or act of stumbling;
A comment on someone losing their footing as in “ Did ‘ee find a ‘igh pit then?” An impossible situation. Nose in the air and losing dignity. An undetermined place between one world and another. A mystery.

New updates January 2010