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70 Publishers to Submit your Book to Right NOW | September 2021
by Writing Workshops Staff
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If you have a completed book manuscript and are ready to start submitting, check out the list of 70 publishers ready to read your work in the list below.
And, if you need help help getting your work out into the world with care and purpose, we have some upcoming classes just for you:
You can join literary agent Christopher Hermelin for his 3-Week Zoom Publishing Seminar: Getting Your Query Letter Right starting September 28th.
Sign up for Poets & Writers Magazine contributing editor Michael Bourne for his How to Pitch to your Dream Publication Zoom Seminar on October 14th.
Take Alex Temblador's Prep Your Book Zoom Seminar on September 21st.
Join our Executive Director, Blake Kimzey, for his Publishing in Literary Journals to Launch Your Career Zoom Seminar on September 19th.
7.13 Books / Now / Fiction / Fee: $5
Academy of American Poets — First Book Award / Due: October 1, 2021 / First Books of Poetry / Fee: $35 / Prize: $5,000 + Publication by Graywolf Press / Judge: Tyehimba Jess
Alice James Books – Alice James Award / Due: October 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
The American Poetry Review – APR/Honickman First Book Prize / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $3,000 + Publication with Copper Canyon Press / Judge: Jericho Brown
Anhinga Press — Philip Levine Prize for Poetry / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: Carmen Giménez Smith
Ashland Creek Press – Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + 2-Week Residency at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology + Publication / Judge: Deb Olin Unferth
Autumn House Press — Rising Writer Prize / October 1, 2021 – January 15, 2022 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Judge: Donika Kelly
Black Lawrence Press — The Big Moose Prize / November 1, 2021 – January 31, 2022 / Novels / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Black Lawrence Press / November 1 – 30, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations (from the German), Cultural Studies / Fee: $12 (Discounted Book Price)
Blair – Lee Smith Novel Prize / Due: September 1, 2021 / Fiction, Novels / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Deesha Philyaw
BlazeVOX / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
BOA Editions — A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize / Due: November 30, 2021 / Poetry Debuts / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Stephanie Burt
Brick Road Poetry Press – Book Contest / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Brunel International African Poetry Prize / October 1 – November 1, 2021 / First Books of Poetry by African Writers / Prize: £3,000 + Publication
Conduit Books & Ephemera – Minds on Fire Open Book Prize / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication
Cooper Dillon Books / Year-Round / Poetry / Fee: $10 (or Buy a Book)
Copper Nickel – Jake Adam York Prize / Due: October 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication by Milkweed Editions / Judge: Dana Levin
Counterpath Press / Year-Round / Queries
Deep Vellum Publishing / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations
Disorder Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art Work, Photography
Driftwood Press / Now / Novellas, Graphic Novels / Fee: $20 (Novellas Only) / Prize: $200 – $500 (Graphic Novels) or $400 (Novella) + Publication
Dzanc Books — Prizes / Due: September 30, 2021 / Novels, Novellas, Short Story Collections, Nonfiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $5,000 (Novel), $2,500 (Short Story), or $1,500 (Nonfiction) + Publication
Elixir Press — Poetry Awards / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication / Judge: John Nieves
Eyelands Book Awards / Due: October 20, 2021 / Poetry, Novels, Novellas, Short Fiction, Historical Fiction, Memoir Children’s Books, Graphic Novels / Fee: $30 / Prize: 5-Day Holiday in Athens + Handmade Ceramic + Publication / Judges: Gail Sidonia Sobat (Poetry), Andriana Minou (Short Stories), Gregory Papadoyiannis (Novels, Novellas, Historical Fiction, and Memoir), Patricia Marchesi (Children’s books and Graphic Novels)
FC2 – Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize / Due: November 1, 2021 / Fiction from a Writer with at Least Three Books of Fiction Published / Fee: $25 / Prize: $15,000 + Publication / Final Judge: Cristina Rivera Garza
FC2 – Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest / Due: November 1, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,500 + Publication / Final Judge: Marream Krollos
Folly X.O. / Year-Round / Novels, Novellas, Short Story Collections, Nonfiction, Serials, Hybrid
Gold Wake Press / Due: September 30, 2021 / All Genres / Fee: $17 (Comes with Book of Choice)
Inlandia Books / Book Proposals from Writers with a Connection to Inland Southern California / Due: October 1, 2021
Inside the Castle — The Castle Freak / Due: October 1, 2021 / Proposals for Works of Exactly 100,000 Words That Will Be Written in 5 Days
The Journal/Ohio State University Press Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize / Now / Poetry / Fee: $23 or $11.50 for BIPOC Poets/ Prize: $2,500 + Publication by Mad Creek Books
Kallisto Gaia Press — Acacia Fiction Prize / September 15 – December 31, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,200 + Publication
Nightboat Books / Open: September 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Ohio University Press – Hollis Summers Poetry Prize / Due: December 1, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
OOMPH! Press / Now / Poetry in Translation, Short Prose in Translation
Ornithopter Press / September 22 – November 1, 2021 / Poetry
Outpost 19 / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
PANK — Big Books / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Experimental, Collaborative, Hybrid / Fee: $15
Persea Books – Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize / Due: October 31, 2021 / First Book of Poetry by a Woman / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication + 6-Week Residency in Italy
Perugia Press / Due: November 15, 2021 / First or Second Book of Poetry by a Woman / Fee: $15 (Free for BIWOC Poets) / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Plays Inverse Press / Now / Plays, Cross-Genre, Performance Lit
Press 53 Award for Short Fiction / Due: December 31, 2021 / Fiction / Fee: $30 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Punctum Books / Now / Proposals for Unconventional Scholarly Work
Radix Media — The Megaphone Prize/ Due: September 30, 2021 / Debut Short Story Collections by Writers of Color / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Deesha Philyaw
Red Hen Press / Now / All Genres / Fee: $20
Red Hen Press — Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award / Due: October 31, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $3,000 + Publication / Judge: Major Jackson
Red Hen Press — Fiction Award / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Aimee Liu
Red Hen Press — Quill Prose Award / Due: October 30, 2021 / Prose by Queer Writers / Fee: $10 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Kazim Ali
River Teeth – Literary Nonfiction Prize / Due: October 31, 2021 / Nonfiction / Fee: $27 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication by The University of New Mexico Press / Judge: Rigoberto González
Sarabande Books / September 1 – 30, 2021 / All Genres from Writers with Ties to Kentucky / Fee: $20
Saturnalia Books — The Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize / Due: October 31, 2021 / Due: November 1, 2021 / Poetry from a Female-Identifying Poet Translated by a Female-Identifying Translator / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Schism Press / Now / Philosophy, Theory, Antithetical Literary Works, Experimental Works
Southeast Missouri State University Press – Nilsen Literary Prize For a First Novel/ Due: November 1, 2021 / Novels / Fee: $25 / Prize: $2,000 + Publication
Split/Lip Press / October 1 – December 1, 2021 / Nonfiction, Hybrid / Fee: $15
Spurl Editions / Now / Prose, Translations of Prose
Spuyten Duyvil / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Cross-Genre
Texas Review Press — The George Garrett Fiction Prize / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication by Texas Review Press
Texas Review Press — The X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $10,000 + Publication by Texas Review Press / Judge: Kazim Ali
Thirty West Publishing House / Due: November 21, 2021 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Trio House Press — Trio Award for First or Second Book and Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence / November 1, 2021 – April 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Tupelo Press / Now / Translations / Prize: $2,500 – $3000 + Publication
Two Dollar Radio / Now / Fiction / Fee: $3
Two Lines Press / Now / Novels and Short Story Collections in Translation
University of Alberta Press / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction
University of Arkansas Press – Miller Williams Poetry Prize / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $5,000 + Publication / Series Editor: Patricia Smith
University of Iowa Press — Iowa Short Fiction Award / Due: September 30, 2021 / Short Stories
University of Wisconsin Press – Brittingham & Felix Pollak Poetry Prizes / Due: September 16, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $28 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: Carmen Giménez Smith
Wendy’s Subway / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry, Hybrid / Fee: $20 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication / Judge: John Keene
Wendy’s Subway — Carolyn Bush Award / Due: September 30, 2021 / Poetry and Hybrid Works from an Emerging Woman Writer Residing in New York City / Fee: $15 / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
Yale Series of Younger Poets / October 1 – November 15, 2021 / Poetry / Fee: $25 / Judge: Rae Armantrout
