
Come Home Alive
Come Home Alive is Penny Pepper’s long overdue debut poetry collection. It reflects a diversity of thought and emotion, resonating with her signature combination of compassion, wit and protest. This collection gathers together some of her most successful live pieces including London Bus, the anthemic Cripplegate Town, and the spit of outrage in Special. Penny’s work has been described as euphoric-melancholic, reflected in poems such as Sonnets for Blues and Rain. She asks what are the real and metaphorical places we do battle in? How are the barriers of the heart and the stone challenged when you are defined as Other?
‘An incredibly strong… real and important poetry explosion.’
Liv Torc (Poet and WOMAD Hip Yak Poetry Shack)

Desires Reborn
You think you know about disabled people? You think it’s all passive pity porn, victimhood, triumph over tragedy and another medal doled out from a self-serving old-style charity? Prepare to have your mind blown by this collection of explicit stories first published in 2003, revised in celebration with the 21st birthday edition of Desires Reborn. Written by award-winning author Penny Pepper, there is still a desperate need for these stories that break apart every cliché, every expectation a reader may have about disability and sex.
‘A modern day classic. Elegant and intelligent writing that has sex as its subject matter.’
Amazon Review

First In The World Somewhere
Told with startling honesty and evolving razor-sharp wit, fearless in the face of prejudice, First in the World Somewhere is a punky ‘80s chronicle of a young disabled woman’s passion for writing up against overwhelming struggle. There are parties, sex, music, and the radical beginnings of the disability rights movement.
‘A force of nature and a voice like no other. Brilliantly funny brilliantly frank.’
Liz Carr (Award-winning actor and activist)

Hemingway Shorts - Volume 6
Short story winners from writers in the best tradition of Ernest Hemingway 2021. It includes Penny’s story Hatman and Brian - a tale from the streets of New York from a disabled woman’s perspective.