READ IN FULL!

Open submissions will ONLY be accepted and read from January 1st to March 31st of each year. Currently looking for nonfiction, juvenile / YA, and full-length poetry manuscripts. Also looking for illustrator portfolios. We are NOT accepting children's poetry / picture books or poetry chapbooks at this time. All unsolicited manuscripts submitted outside the time frame will be returned unread. We do not accept email submissions, although we recommend you query before sending your manuscript. We got over 400 submissions last year and only publish 4-6 books a year. If you are sending poetry, please query with a sample first. No attachments please. We do accept multiple submissions, but ask that you let us know if the MS has been accepted by another publisher immediately.

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 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 gifted writers, who have something interesting to say, 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 your manuscript for consideration.

Poetry collections should be between 70 and 100 pages, and chapbook submissions between 20 and 40 pages. Juvenile / YA titles less than 200. Nonfiction has no page requirement. Also include a cover letter and a list of publications. Although you do not need to be published in book form, you must have been published substantially in literary journals. Please query by email before sending your manuscript with a sample of 6 pages in the main email. NO attachments. Include them in the body of your email. We DO accept unsolicited work from non-Canadians, but you must query first.

If you get the go-ahead please send the entire manuscript in hard copy to:

Palimpsest Press
5 King St.
Kingsville, ON.
N9Y 1H9

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 asking us to hurry the hell up!