Publishing with Purpose
Publications for the unhurried mind
A Notice from Scatter Press Limited
First Press - Private Limited Studio Edition
The private 100 hand-numbered, signed copies
Forthcoming Autumn 2026
100 Years of Pooh
A Literary and Psychological Reflection on the Hundred Acre Wood
When a Pencil Was Enough
One hundred years after the first publication of A . A . Milne's Winnie the Pooh, Rachel Rosa invites you to return to the Hundred Acre Wood not to retell the stories, but to walk slowly through them, and to ask what they understood about childhood, friendship, and thinking, long before childhood became something to measure and manage.
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Our commitment to the unhurried mind
Scatter Press is an independent publishing house with the sensibility of a traditional studio press, shaped around the careful development of books, magazines, and educational writing.
It grew from a quiet belief that words still shape how we understand the world, and that books still offer something that speed cannot. We are interested in writing that allows the mind to move at a human pace, leaving room for thought, for uncertainty, for noticing, and for the forming of understanding and connection.
We believe in the unhurried mind. Not everything important can be summarised, measured, optimised, or reduced. Some things must be walked around slowly, the way a child walks through a wood, noticing the same tree from different sides, returning to the same place by a slightly different path each time, and understanding more with every return.
Scatter Press publishes across different forms, but beneath these sits the same idea, that clear thinking and careful language can change how people see, and when people see differently, they often begin to live differently too.
Our educational publication, The Education Standard, and our community magazines, The Rudd and Keyworth News, are part of this same work. They attend to communication, place, and learning, and to the small, important things that hold communities together, making knowledge feel like something that belongs to everyone.
Scatter Press is also shaped by a belief that many minds move differently, and that this difference is something to be understood and worked with. We are a neurodiverse friendly publisher because we recognise that some of the most original thinking has always come from minds that do not move in straight lines.
We are not in a hurry. We are interested in work that will still feel true in ten years’ time, in books that are kept and returned to, and in writing that makes a quiet difference over time.
Books still hold a particular kind of quiet. They ask for time, and in return they offer something that cannot be rushed.
Scatter Press is an independent publishing studio devoted to work that carries depth, care, and attention. We are interested in ideas that need room to unfold, in language that respects the reader, and in stories that are shaped with thought rather than noise.
We publish and support work that trusts the reader to stay a little longer, to notice a little more, and to find meaning at a human pace.
