Call for Submissions
Ornithopter Press is looking to publish full-length books of poems and will accept submissions from July 1 – August 15, 2018. Before you submit, please explore this website. Information is available through social media as well. Poetry with a focus on work by contemporary authors who offer exceptional counterpoints to the literary mainstream. Yes, that remains true. Are you simpatico with the work the press has published? Are you excited by experimentation and diversity of expression? If so, I’d love to read your manuscript. Please refer to the guidelines below. Interest in an open call from a very small press can be hard to predict— I’ll try to respond to submissions within three months, although response times could be longer.
Submission Guidelines
- Ornithopter Press accepts electronic submissions in PDF form only.
- Submissions that don’t conform to these guidelines probably won’t be considered.
- Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please let me know right away if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
- Manuscripts should be at least 80 pages long.
- Please do not submit illustrated works.
- Submit no more than one manuscript during this reading period.
- While individual poems (or other text passages) will ideally have been published in journals, anthologies, chapbooks, etc., the manuscript itself must be unpublished.
- Send your submission to: ornithopterpress@gmail.com
- Write “Submission from (insert your name)” in the subject line.
- Please do not include any material in the body of the email other than a note to let me know who you are and if yours is a simultaneous submission.
- Attach one file (PDF only) to your email that includes:
Ornithopter Press is looking to publish full-length books of poems and will accept submissions from July 1 – August 15, 2018. Before you submit, please explore this website. Information is available through social media as well. Poetry with a focus on work by contemporary authors who offer exceptional counterpoints to the literary mainstream. Yes, that remains true. Are you simpatico with the work the press has published? Are you excited by experimentation and diversity of expression? If so, I’d love to read your manuscript. Please refer to the guidelines below. Interest in an open call from a very small press can be hard to predict— I’ll try to respond to submissions within three months, although response times could be longer.
Submission Guidelines
- Ornithopter Press accepts electronic submissions in PDF form only.
- Submissions that don’t conform to these guidelines probably won’t be considered.
- Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please let me know right away if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
- Manuscripts should be at least 80 pages long.
- Please do not submit illustrated works.
- Submit no more than one manuscript during this reading period.
- While individual poems (or other text passages) will ideally have been published in journals, anthologies, chapbooks, etc., the manuscript itself must be unpublished.
- Send your submission to: ornithopterpress@gmail.com
- Write “Submission from (insert your name)” in the subject line.
- Please do not include any material in the body of the email other than a note to let me know who you are and if yours is a simultaneous submission.
- Attach one file (PDF only) to your email that includes:
- A cover letter with a brief bio and description of your manuscript
- Your name and contact information
- The complete manuscript
- An acknowledgements page that lists individual publication credits