Submissions & Inquiries

Mayapple Press is a highly-selective small press specializing in 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 manuscripts between July 1 and September 30. Please do not submit during other times of the year. Thank you!
Our normal response time is 3-4 months.

Submissions and inquiries should be sent as email only, and should include:

• a manuscript of no more than 100 pages (or a sample of 6-10 pages). Please use a clean, readable font such as Times New Roman, Arial, etc. Number your pages. No more than 1 poem per page. Use Page Break (Ctrl+Enter on PC) between poems.
• a table of contents
• a brief publications resume and bio
• $10 reading fee (check or money order by mail, or PayPal payment online)

Please read our submissions guidelines before sending your manuscript.

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.

Submissions and inquiries are accepted by email with reading fee submitted by PayPal. Please send your reading fee the same day you send your submission or inquiry.	Email your submission to----> (sorry, not clickable)
	Click here to send your reading fee -----> This is a separate transaction from your Shopping Cart for book purchases.

Please save email attachments such as manuscripts and resumes in .RTF format so that they can be read by all word processors. Such content can be included in the body of your email, but remember that italics, underlining and boldface will not travel as email text. Manuscripts and samples of work submitted without reading fee will not usually be answered or acknowledged.

Checks/MO's for reading fees may be sent to:
Acquisitions Editor
Mayapple Press
408 N. Lincoln St.
Bay City, MI 48708

Thank you for your interest in Mayapple Press.