Our Submission Guidelines
Thank you for your interest in Nine Arches Press.
Before you consider sending us your poetry collections or manuscripts,
we strongly advise you take note of the following three steps:
Familiarise yourself - we recommend you order a copy of our in-house magazine, Under the Radar. This is a good barometer of our tastes and preferences as publishers, and the type of work we're likely to consider (we're not asking that you fit into a pigeon hole as a poet, but rather that you feel confident that we're on a not-too-distant wavelength!).
Wasted time is an awful thing, so please save yourself some by ordering a copy of the magazine or some of our other publications and getting a flavour of Nine Arches Press first.
Submit to the Magazine - If you like what you see, please send us a selection of poems. All the Under the Radar information you need can be found here. We view Under the Radar as the hothouse of our press, where interesting and emerging poets surface, and both our readers and ourselves make new discoveries. So it's a great place to be all round if you want to be noticed.
Talk to us - if you've followed the other two steps, and have a cracking collection burning a hole in your pocket, approach us by email or letter and tell us about it. Whilst publication in the magazine does not guarantee we'll publish your collection, it certainly doesn't exclude it either.
We accept submissions to Under the Radar from anywhere in the world. Please read full submission guidelines for the magazine here.
Further Submission Guidelines For Poetry:
PLEASE NOTE:
As from 31st October 2011 and until furthernotice we will not be accepting pamphlet submissions - we will only be accepting submissions for full length poetry collections
We are currently accepting both debut collections from new or emerging poets (for our Debut series) and submissions from established poets with previous collections published. Both are very welcome.
We do not have a regional bias. Though we are based in the Midlands, we are seriously interested in publishing work from poets nationally.
Please only send us previously unpublished work.
(By which we mean that the collection of poems you are sending us should not have already been published either in physical form or online together as one complete collection, book or pamphlet. Publication of individual poems in various or selected magazines, journals, or e-magazines is fine. Please contact us if you're unsure.)
We recommend that you send us a sample of thirty poems from your full collection.
Please include a short biographical note, which should include information of any previous or forthcoming publication (in magazines, journals, pamphlets, collections, online etc.).
We do have a very high volume of work to consider, so please allow at least ten weeks for a reply if sending us a collection to consider.
If submitting by post, please kindly include an SAE for our reply and/or the return of your manuscripts, otherwise we are sadly unable to return your manuscripts. Please make sure this SAE has sufficient postage to cover return of your work.
We will be looking to publish poets who have a proven track record of publication of some form - by which we mean that you have had a record of previous publication in one or more of the following: magazines, journals, pamphlets or in previous collections. If you have no track record in any of the forms listed above, please consider this point carefully before sending us your work. If in doubt, please send us an email to clarify.
Please do not make multiple submissions, either by sending us work you have also simultaneously submitted to other publishers, or by sending us further work to consider before we have responded to your first submission. We cannot consider submissions which ignore this request.
Full contact details are here > >
Further Submission Guidelines for HOTWIRE Short Story Pamphlets:
The submissions window for HOTWIRE is OPEN
