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TheAssociation of Little Presses (ALP) was an organisation dedicated to promoting small press publishing activity inBritain andIreland.
ALP was founded at a meeting held at Arlington Mill,Bibury,Gloucestershire, on 23 July 1966. The meeting had been called byBob Cobbing of Writers Forum andStuart Montgomery ofFulcrum Press and was attended by representatives of a number of other small press publishers.[1]
Over the years, ALP published a regular newsletter,Poetry and Little Press Information (PALPI). This featured listings of publications by member presses as well as information onprinters, suppliers andbookshops likely to be of interest. The association also ran regular bookfairs at which members could sell their books and published an annual catalogue of publications that was available to the public, libraries and academic institutions.
By the late 1990s, ALP was coming under pressure from the growth of new publishing methods and technologies, and the last known catalogue appeared in 1997.