Host Publications will reopen for full-length poetry submissions on March 1st, 2026.
Host Publications is an award-winning, women-led independent publisher located in Austin, Texas. Devoted to our work of elevating systemically marginalized writers, our mission is to publish groundbreaking poetry by women writers, BIPOC writers, LGBTQ+ writers, writers of a lower socio-economic status, immigrant writers and writers with disabilities.
We want to champion work that is experimental, especially writing that queers language and meaning-making. We want to celebrate writing by survivors, writing that explores alternative and subversive cultural experiences, writing that engages with a poetics of liberation. Send us your strangest, queerest, most tender, riotous writing. Send us work that explores the limits of form, voice, language and style—the full spectrum of what poetry can do.
Submissions are open to any US-based poet. Though we love and have historically published works in translation, all submissions for this period must be original work written in English.
Awardees for The Joe W. Bratcher Prize are selected by our editors from our annual manuscript open call.
Job Title: Part-Time Editor
Organization: Host Publications
Location: Hybrid
Reports To: Editor-in-Chief
Hours: Part-time, 20 hours per week, some flexible scheduling possible
Compensation: This is a part-time position with a salary range of $25-$30/hr.
Position Summary:
The Part-time Editor is responsible for providing developmental and line edits while respecting author intent; communicating edits and managing revisions with authors; maintaining deadlines and keeping production on schedule; proofreading and checking final layouts for accuracy and consistency; collaborating with the editorial team during meetings and attending weekly team Zoom meetings, participating in editorial meetings and discussions; assisting with publicity and marketing, nonprofit development and event curation.
Qualifications Include:
MFA in Creative Writing and/or 3-5 years editorial experience. Candidates must be strong communicators, self-motivated, and capable of meeting deadlines. Familiarity with contemporary poetry and nonprofit publishing is strongly preferred.
This hybrid position will require 15 to 20 hours of work per week, with a minimum 5-10 hours a week in person at the centrally-located Austin office. Remote work will be completed via Submittable, Zoom, and Slack.
About Host Publications:
Host Publications is an award-winning, women- and queer-led independent publisher located in Austin, Texas. As a nonprofit, we are devoted to our mission to elevate systemically marginalized writers, publishing radical poetry by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices.
With every book we publish, stage we set, and event we host, we work to empower our community of writers whose work inspires social transformation and creates a new sense of what is possible in writing.