Friday, October 20, 2006
Open reading periods
List of presses with reading periods for poetry manuscripts, plus notes:
Note that you MUST check the press websites, as these things often change from year to year, and I'll only change it if I notice or someone tells me.
Open: BlazeVOX Books
Open: Melville House
Open: New Directions
Open: Persea Books
Open: Red Morning Press
Open: City Lights Books (proposal/sample)
Open: Counterpath Press (query/sample)
Open: Eastern Washington University Press (query/sample)
Open: Apogee Press (query)
Open: Coffee House Press (sample, not "new authors")
Open: High Plains Press (sample, "Poetry of the American West")
Open: Mayapple Press ($10 fee)
Open: Etruscan Press ($20 fee)
January & June: Milkweed Editions
January-June: BkMk Press (sample)
January-July: Ghost Road Press (query/sample) (not currently reading)
January-November: Graywolf Press (query/sample)
January-March: CavanKerry Press
January-? (not first books): BOA Editions
Feb. 1-June 1: Carolina Wren Press
March 1-May 1: Ahsahta Press
April: Octopus Books
April-August: Cooper Dillon Books
April-September: Waywiser Press
May-June: Black Ocean
June: Four Way Books
June: Ausable Press
June & October: Steel Toe Books (you have to buy one of their previous books)
July: Tupelo Press ($35 fee[!!!])
September: Sarabande Books (sample)
September-October: University of Pittsburgh Press (not first books)
October: Carnegie Mellon University Press ($10 fee)
October: Tarpaulin Sky Press ($10 for past contributors, $20 for others)
October-November: C&R Press ($10 fee, $15 to received published book)
November-December: WordTech Communications
Anyone got others, please add 'em.
Note that you MUST check the press websites, as these things often change from year to year, and I'll only change it if I notice or someone tells me.
Open: BlazeVOX Books
Open: Melville House
Open: New Directions
Open: Persea Books
Open: Red Morning Press
Open: City Lights Books (proposal/sample)
Open: Counterpath Press (query/sample)
Open: Eastern Washington University Press (query/sample)
Open: Apogee Press (query)
Open: Coffee House Press (sample, not "new authors")
Open: High Plains Press (sample, "Poetry of the American West")
Open: Mayapple Press ($10 fee)
Open: Etruscan Press ($20 fee)
January & June: Milkweed Editions
January-June: BkMk Press (sample)
January-July: Ghost Road Press (query/sample) (not currently reading)
January-November: Graywolf Press (query/sample)
January-March: CavanKerry Press
January-? (not first books): BOA Editions
Feb. 1-June 1: Carolina Wren Press
March 1-May 1: Ahsahta Press
April: Octopus Books
April-August: Cooper Dillon Books
April-September: Waywiser Press
May-June: Black Ocean
June: Four Way Books
June: Ausable Press
June & October: Steel Toe Books (you have to buy one of their previous books)
July: Tupelo Press ($35 fee[!!!])
September: Sarabande Books (sample)
September-October: University of Pittsburgh Press (not first books)
October: Carnegie Mellon University Press ($10 fee)
October: Tarpaulin Sky Press ($10 for past contributors, $20 for others)
October-November: C&R Press ($10 fee, $15 to received published book)
November-December: WordTech Communications
Anyone got others, please add 'em.
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Thanks for these! I have almost completed my manuscript & it should be finished at the end of this year, so this info is very helpful.
Great info, Steven. Tupelo Press also have an open reading in July.
# posted by 
: June 11, 2007 8:38 PM
: June 11, 2007 8:38 PM
Thank you so much for this. I was going to spend the morning researching this info! Especially important in light of recent scandals in poetry publishing and awards.
Steven, you might remove Ausable from this list. It says they will resume reading in 2009 -- but they have recently been bought by Copper Canyon.
Also, Graywolf reads samples and may ask for the ms.
Also, Graywolf reads samples and may ask for the ms.
Sarabande's not reading this year, and I believe Word Tech isn't either.
Steel Toe Books, by the way, has a new extra open reading period...
Steel Toe Books, by the way, has a new extra open reading period...
coffee house does not read manuscripts--by "new" they mean a writer who doesn't already publish with them--thanks for the list
# posted by : September 24, 2008 4:27 PM
: September 24, 2008 4:27 PM
Do you have some concrete verification for that, Anon.? Their guidelines aren't clear enough to confirm your points, I'm afraid.
According to their site, their open reading period is as I have it, and they have a contest in the winter.
Your link to C&R Press is broken. New address:
http://www.crpress.org/
Thank you for this great resource!
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http://www.crpress.org/
Thank you for this great resource!
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