Submissions & Inquiries

Mayapple Press is a highly-selective small press specializing contemporary literature, especially poetry and works that straddle conventional categories: Great Lakes, women, Caribbean, translations, science fiction poetry, prose-poems, recent immigrant experience, Judaica. Publications are in both chapbook and trade paperback formats (usually under 100 pages). In general, we publish only authors with prior publications with reputable presses or literary magazines.

Mayapple Press reads unsolicited submissions between July 1and November 30. Please contact us with new work during our reading period.

Please read our submissions guidelines before submitting.

If your work has not previously been published (or if you have published only in anthologies or magazines where authors pay or are required to purchase copies in order to be included), please click here.

During our "closed" period, email submissions and inquiries will not usually be answered or acknowledged.

Thank you for your interest in Mayapple Press.