We are looking for essay collection proposals (for adults) to join our Prose Pamphlets series. Open to submissions from anywhere in the world so long as the work is written in or translated into English.
We are excited by the essay format, and we are looking forward to seeing what you send us! We imagine they could include memoir, food writing, travel writing, meditations on various subjects, or even something more experimental.
We’re expecting these to be mostly non-fiction, but something that plays with the genre could be fun too.
Our prose pamphlets tend to be 15-20,000 words in total.
We will select 1-2 books to publish from each call for submissions, and we will aim to publish books within 12-24 months of the full manuscripts being finalised.
We will offer an £100 advance on essay collections we choose to publish, as well as complimentary author copies and royalties.
Submission fees: We recognise that submissions and competition fees can be prohibitively expensive for writers at different stages of their careers, so we will trial a pay-what-you-can tiered submission fee system, allowing scaled fees between £0 – £20, depending on what you can afford. This will go towards Emma and the team’s time reading the submissions.
Find out more here
Deadline: 27 June 2021