SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The editors at Apostrophe Books are pleased to announce our second open reading period. We will accept manuscript submissions between June 1, 2010 and August 31, 2010. If you are interested in submitting, please read our mission statement and follow the guidelines below:
The editors at Apostrophe Books are interested in writing that expands the potential definitions of poetry. With this in mind, we actively seek work that investigates language, and consciousness in language, in innovative and/or subversive ways. APOSTROPHE strives to publish work that complicates and challenges the idea of a “well-crafted” poem by disclosing its own operations and undermining presumptions about what actually constitutes a poem. This means we are pursuing writing that challenges the categories and generic distinctions most often associated with poetry. The editors find poetic writing that intersects theory, philosophy, cultural studies, and/or pataphysics to be especially compelling. For examples of what we mean by this, we suggest purchasing one of our books through the website, Small Press Distributors (spd.org), or Amazon.com.
When submitting your manuscript, we request a reading fee of $20.00. This fee supports the rising printing costs of doing print runs that sustain distribution through SPD and sales through the usual online retailers (we do not use print on demand). This fee supports promotion of the press through our presence at bookfairs and hosted readings at small art galleries. This fee is your way of telling us that not only do you seek a publisher, but that you support the authors and editors of this publisher.
In order to submit:
- Send your manuscript as a Word or RTF file in an email to editor@apostrophebooks.org. Use your last name and date of submission as the subject line, for example: Smith_7.4.10.
- After you submit your manuscript, pay the suggested $20.00 Reading Fee by clicking the PayPal Donations link below.
- You will receive a receipt from PayPal for your payment and an email reply that your manuscript was received by us.
- You will receive notification regarding the manuscript no later than 6 months from the date you submit.
