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NEW SUBMISSION GUIDELINES RELEASED:

In an effort to remove barriers for BIPOC, Deaf, and Disabled authors, Palimpsest Press is officially opening submissions year-round for authors who identify as BIPOC, Deaf, or Disabled. These guidelines take effect immediately. Please include “Year-round Submission” in the email subject line if you submit outside of our designated February 1st – March 31st submission period. *

*If you’d like to submit your poetry to Anstruther Books, please click on the Anstruther Books menu for submission details.

Open submissions for all other authors will ONLY be accepted and read from February 1st to March 31st of each year. All unsolicited manuscripts submitted outside the time frame will be put in the recycle pile, a worse fate than the dreaded slush pile. We do not accept AI generated work. WE ARE CURRENTLY ONLY ACCEPTING WORK BY CANADIAN AUTHORS. 

Palimpsest Press highly encourages women, Black authors, writers of colour, Indigenous writers, members of the LGTBQ2S+ community, and Deaf/Disabled writers to submit. We are currently looking for literary fiction by BIPOC, DEAF, and DISABLED authors. We value your stories and are proud to publish them.

POETRY GUIDELINES:

Please submit a cover letter.

Please submit a publishing history.

Full manuscript in .doc, .docx, or pdf.

Poetry collections should be over 50 pages.

Send above to jim(at)palimpsestpress.ca.

 

NONFICTION GUIDELINES

Please submit a cover letter.

Please submit a publishing history.

Full manuscript in .doc, .docx, or pdf.

Nonfiction manuscripts have no page number requirement.

Send above to jim(at)palimpsestpress.ca.

 

FICTION GUIDELINES

WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING WORKS OF SHORT FICTION (novella/short story collections).

WE DO NOT PUBLISH HISTORICAL FICTION.

 

STEP ONE: cover letter & sample pages

Please submit a cover letter that includes a description of the work (no more than one page). 

Please submit a list of publications (all genres).

Please send an up to 4-page writing sample. Attach in a .pdf.

Please send to aimee(at)palimpsestpress.ca.

 

STEP TWO: manuscript

After we receive your cover letter, if we’d like to read more, we will let you know, and then you can send your full manuscript.

Fiction manuscripts have no page requirement.

Please double space the manuscript.

File formats – .doc, .docx, .pdf

Please send manuscript to aimee(at)palimpsestpress.ca.

 

 

RESPONSE TIME

Please note that it might take up to six months for a response. It takes time to read the manuscripts carefully and in full. More information may be solicited from you during this time. If you don’t hear anything from us after six months, please email a kind note to follow up.

IF WE PUBLISH YOUR WORK, PLEASE KNOW…

It is our goal to publish high-quality editions that are widely distributed. We are only interested in working with authors who will work cooperatively in the promotion of their work. The daunting job of creating an audience cannot be done alone. We expect authors to network on their own behalf and on ours, and we will do the same. The tasks of setting up readings, interviews, and sending out review copies will be shared.

We want to work with authors who value craft and write with authentic voices. We also want writers who are dedicated to the process, involved, and understand the venture that we are undertaking. If you think you are one of these people, we would enjoy reading and considering your manuscript.