Thank you for your interest in River Glass Books. We are currently closed for submissions. Manuscripts received outside our submission window will not be considered. Please check back here for news of our next open reading period.
Our previous submission guidelines are included below for your reference.
CHAPBOOK SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Every manuscript will be considered for publication by River Glass Books in 2024 or 2025 as a limited-edition chapbook (up to 100 copies), which we will design and bind with the care and attention your work deserves. Additionally, selections from all manuscripts will be considered for publication in a tentatively forthcoming anthology, as well as other print and digital formats.
Submissions should be sent via email to riverglassbooks@gmail.com. Attach the manuscript as a .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file, and include in the body of the email your cover letter with a short bio.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Send us an email to withdraw your manuscript if it’s accepted for book publication elsewhere. Should a selection be accepted for publication while we’re considering your manuscript, you can let us know in a quick email, but there’s no need to withdraw the whole submission.
Payment for accepted manuscripts is $75, fifteen author copies, and a discounted rate on additional title purchases. As always, we do not charge a reading fee.
Proceeds from our published manuscripts will go to the Mandari Panga community in the Ecuadorian Amazon via the Artists for Climate Justice Fund. Published works will be used to promote the Fund online and in print.
Verse and prose of all genres are welcome. A chapbook manuscript is typically 20-30 pages long. For a sense of the work we’ve published before, please see our current catalogue.
Reading submissions remains a top pleasure and privilege of this work. We can’t wait to see what you submit.