Email with three chapters or the first fifty pages.įirefly Press This vibrant Welsh publisher had a short open submission window at the end of August 2020, so worth keeping an eye on for future opportunities – and they publish the wonderful Catherine Fisher! They accept chapter books, middle grade and YA. They lean towards the literary with a hint of darkness. They are looking for books for readers aged 7+, so think middle grade and YA for this publisher with a minimum length of 40K words. They prefer email submissions of the first three chapters and synopsis of the book and aim to reply within six months if possible.Įverything With Words is a young indie publisher with high standards established by Danish writer and storyteller Mikka Haugaard. No picture books or rhyming books – think fast-paced adventure for 5-8 or 8-12. Note: UK authors only at the moment, and you should be prepared to be actively involved in promoting your book.ĭinosaur Books Dinosaur Books are a small indie publisher looking for exciting fiction for the 5-12 year old readership with a traditional feel – see their wonderfully illustrated Dinoteks books for an example. Submit via the form, confirming you have read the guidelines, and expect to hear back in about 3 months. Publishing This small indie is open for submissions of children’s books under 25,000, but not picture books, so think chapter book or lower middle grade. May be unsuitable for ‘darker’ material.Ĭ.A.A.B. They are occasionally closed to submissions but check the website for future anthology details. NB Where there is a link, I have endeavoured to take you, the linkee, to the submissions guidelines page of the publisher’s website where that is not possible I have linked to the main website page.īridge House Bridge House is a small press which specialises in themed anthologies of short stories, often for charity. Check their website guidelines and submit away, but please do correct me if I’ve made any errors or incorrect assumptions. So in the spirit of writerly comradeship here is my current list of writer-friendly children’s fiction publishers in the UK who still accept unsolicited manuscripts. Thankfully, there are still a few children’s book publishers who are happy to wade through the ‘slush pile’, that teetering tower of manuscripts we imagine fill up a corner of the office, each one representing an agent-less writer who is hoping against hope that they might be plucked from obscurity. They have excellent distribution, their books have been reviewed in most major publications, and they know how to promote the books they publish.You can’t get published without an agent, and you can’t get an agent without being published – or so the adage goes. Unnamed Press is an independent publisher of literary fiction and nonfiction, based in Los Angeles and founded in 2014. They publish literary fiction and works of nonfiction. They're the oldest women’s publishing house in the world and are open to submissions from female/female identifying, and non-binary authors. The Feminist Press was established as an independent nonprofit literary publisher in 1970. They focus on publishing bold voices and original perspectives. They're generally open to unsolicited submissions of literary fiction. Soho Press is an established and respected literary independent publisher based out of New York. They also publish a wide variety of nonfiction including memoir, autobiography, biography, journalistic expose or narrative, true crime, art, culture, pop culture, world history, current events, science, and music. They publish literary fiction, short fiction collections, and crime fiction. Schaffner is an established press with distribution through IPG. Since then they have gained a reputation for publishing thoughtful books in a variety of literary genres, including literary fiction. Persea Books is an independent book publisher based out of New York that was established in the 1970s. The books they’ve published have won or been honorable mentions for many major awards, and are frequently mentioned on “best of” year- end lists. Ig Publishing is a New York-based small press that focuses on publishing literary fiction and progressive political nonfiction. Now they publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in English, as well as works in translation that fall into any of the previous categories.ĭouglas & McIntyre is Canada’s pre-eminent independent publisher, with books that have won many national and international awards, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. Founded in 2013, they initially published works in translation. They are only open for short submission periods every year and these periods are capped at 300 submissions, so submit early.Ĭlash Books started in 2015 and they publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.ĭeep Vellum is a great press based in Dallas. Coffee House Press is a literary press with a great reputation.
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