Note: As of November 2009, we are no longer accepting submissions of textual work, as our publishing schedule for the next twelve to eighteen months is full. If you would like to submit comics or art, please contact us by email. Thanks for understanding.
Thank you for your interest in publishing with us. Please consider these guidelines when submitting to Chance Press:
- Your submission can be electronic or on paper. If you would like to submit on paper, please email books (at) chancepress (dot) com.
- Your submission must have a cover letter containing, at the very least, your current address and a brief summary of the work you are submitting. If your cover letter mentions Chance Press, there is a significantly higher chance that we will read it.
- Any subject is fair game, although we encourage you to check out some of our current releases before sending anything. One exception: please don’t submit any poems about writing poetry, poems about poetry, poems about the power of poems, or poems about being a poet. Poems about other poets are okay, though… We just feel pretty strongly that self-referential poems about poems are pretty tired.
- Simultaneous submissions are ONLY okay IF: you aren’t one of those people who send the same 100 poems to 100 different small presses at a time. In other words, we understand that it can be a drag sending a poem to a publisher who holds it hostage for 3 months with no response, but people that abuse simultaneous submissions can expect to have their submissions returned.
- No literary criticism- thumbs up or thumbs down only. We have had our own poems and stories rejected enough times to know the disappointment and the general “WHY?!!!” that accompanies the rejection of something you thought was genuinely good. There are a lot of reasons we might reject your submission, from us not having the time or resources to publish it at any given time to us just not liking it. Still, we’re in the business of making books, not providing literary criticism. There are plenty of great writers’ groups you can solicit to get opinions on your work that are probably more useful than whatever we have to say anyway.
Email submissions to books (at) chancepress (dot) com. We look forward to reading your work.