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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 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 are now accepting unsolicited manuscripts for our 2011 publishing programme.
Also:
We accept submissions to Under the Radar from anywhere in the world.
Please only send us previously unpublished work.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 together as one complete collection, book or pamphlet anywhere else. Publication of individual poems in various or selected magazines, journals, or e-magazines is fine. Please contact us if you're unsure.)
We do have a high volume of work to consider, so please allow at least eight weeks for a reply if sending us a collection to consider.
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.
As well as poetry, we are open to suggestions for potential short story collections.
Under the Radar can be purchased by following this link to our shop.
Further questions?
Just email us at mail at ninearchespress dot com
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