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There are four ways to submit
your manuscript to Kore Press.
1.
First Book Competition: Poetry
For a poetry manuscript
in English by a woman who has not yet published a full-length
book. See full guidelines.
2. Chapbook
Competition: Short Fiction
For a single short
story. See full guidelines.
3. Online Appreciations and Blog
Write a blog entry for Persephone Speaks or a profile of a remarkable writer and email it to shannon@korepress.org with the subject line "Blog" or "Profile." Please read the blog and online appreciations before submitting.
Blog entries on life as a woman writer are especially appreciated, however all topics having to do with women and literature will be considered. Appreciation profiles can be about any female author.
Articles should be between 500 to 1,000 words. Authors will not receive payment. Chosen pieces will be posted on the blog, on the Kore Press website and in our monthly email newsletter, which is sent to 3,000 readers.
4. Open Submissions
Period
The 2008 Open Submisions Period is now closed. Writers who sent their work for consideration can expect a response by August 30, 2008.
The editors at Kore
Press will accept submissions for full-length books during our
open submission period each January. The open submissions period
is not a contest; manuscripts are not reviewed anonymously. Please
understand we are under no obligation to publish any manuscripts
we receive during our open submissions period. We expect to publish four to six titles a year, including our poetry and short fiction contest
winner.
Deadline
Manuscripts must be postmarked
between January 1st and January 31st, 2009.
What we are
looking for
We seek book-length manuscripts
in poetry, memoir, short fiction and creative nonfiction, written by
women,* that reflect the highest standards of literary quality.
We are open to work that is genre-bending and/or experimental. In 2009 we will not be considering novel manuscripts. We do remain interested in short story collections.
Reading Fee
Kore Press is a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization. To offset the cost of staff time required
to review and respond to manuscripts, we charge a reading fee of $30 for a poetry
manuscript and $40 for a prose manuscript, payable to Kore Press.
No editor receives extra compensation for reading manuscripts.
You are welcome to submit as many manuscripts as you like, as
long as you send a separate reading fee for each.
Editorial Review
Each
submission will be read by our editors. Publisher, Lisa
Bowden, or our Executive Director, Shannon Cain will respond personally with a letter offering a short critique.
Simultaneous submissions
are welcome. If you sent an entry to the poetry competition,
it is fine to submit the same manuscript during the open submissions
period; the review system and the reviewers are different for
each process.
What to Submit
For poetry, send a manuscript
of a minimum of 48 pages and a maximum of 80 pages. For a collection
of short stories, send an excerpt: 2 or 3 stories, but no more than 50 pages.
For a memoir or a work of creative nonfiction, send a one-
or two-page synopsis plus the first 50 pages. If we're interested
in reading more of your prose, we will ask you to send the rest.
What
to include on your manuscript's title page:
• name
• address
• telephone number
• email address
• title of manuscript
• genre
Manuscripts
must be:
• submitted online
• accompanied
by the appropriate reading fee (Canadian residents add $3 for bank processing fee if submitting in Canadian dollars)
• doublespaced
(prose only)
• paginated
• original
poetry or prose written by the applicant (unless the work is
a translation)
• unpublished
at the time of submission (if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere
during our deliberation process, please notify us immediately)
• accompanied
by a page listing previously published stories or poems, if any.
Send
submissions to:
www.korepress.org/submissions
Click here to read an interview with co-directors Lisa Bowden and
Shannon Cain, originally published in Poetry Contest Insider
* Why
We Publish Women
For more information email kore@korepress.org
or call 520.629.9752 |
