Luke Thompson

Author

Luke is a writer and publisher from Cornwall. His interests include human-animal relationships, small press publishing, creative non-fiction, environmental literature, poetry and South West writers.

Luke's books include 'Domadomadomadoma-Blumblumblum: Conversations with Other Animals' (Ortac, 2024), 'Treasures of Cornwall' (Macmillan, 2023), 'A Guillemot Guide to Very Small Press Publishing' (Guillemot Press, 2022), 'Rhinoceros' (Broken Sleep, 2020), and 'Singing About Melon' (Shearsman, 2020).

He has also designed and produced a number of text-generating performative objects for exhibitions, including a Phonetic Ouija Board and Psychic test Cards, which have been performed across the UK. 

As a publisher, Luke founded the national award-winning Guillemot Press in 2016, working with a spectacular list of writers that includes established figures such as Selima Hill, Jen Hadfield, David Harsent and Fiona Benson, as well as exciting new and debuting poets Petals Kalule, Maia Elsner, Prerana Kumar, Suzannah V Evans, and many, many more.

Genre: Literary Fiction, Creative non-fiction, Environmental literature, Poetry
External links: Website
Internal links: Twelve Stories for Twelve Sections