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 manuscripts between July 1 and November 30. Please do not submit during other times of the year. Thank you!

Submissions and inquiries can be sent email or as hard copy by regular mail, and should include:

• a manuscript of no more than 100 pages (or a sample of 6-10 pages)
• a brief publications resume
• $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)
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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. Email submissions and inquiries without reading fee will not usually be answered or acknowledged.

Acquisitions Editor
Mayapple Press
408 N. Lincoln St.
Bay City, MI 48708

All hard-copy submissions and inquiries MUST include the reading fee and a stamped, self-addressed envelope with sufficient return postage (SASE); submissions and inquiries without reading fee and SASE will not be answered or acknowledged.

Thank you for your interest in Mayapple Press.