Host Publications is an award-winning, women-led independent publisher located in Austin, Texas. Devoted to our mission to elevate historically marginalized writers, Host Publications publishes radical poetry and fiction by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices.

Our mission as an independent, intersectional feminist press is to publish groundbreaking poetry by women writers, BIPOC writers, LGBTQ+ writers, writers of a lower socio-economic status, and writers with disabilities. We want to champion work that is experimental and nuanced, engaging with a poetics of liberation, even as it explores the experiences of daily life. We are passionate about publishing poetry and fiction that pushes the boundaries of form, voice, language and style—the boundaries of what language can do. 

Submissions are open to any US-based poet or fiction writer. Though we love and have historically published works in translation, all submissions for this period must be original work written in English.

We is open for poetry and fiction (short stories or novellas) full-length manuscript submissions between September 13th, 2024 through October 15th, 2024.

Please review our submission guidelines below before uploading your submissions.


Fiction Guidelines

  • All submissions must be original work, previously unpublished as a collection.
  • We are currently looking for collections of short stories or novellas.
  • Your submission should be between 150-200 pages (or roughly 30,000 - 50,000 words) in length.
  • Please use double-spacing.
  • Paginated, 12 pt. Times New Roman. 
  • Please include a table of contents and a cover page. 
  • Please submit your work as a PDF.
  • Please only submit work written in English.
  • Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please withdraw your submission if your manuscript has been accepted elsewhere. 

Poetry Guidelines

  • All submissions must be original work, previously unpublished as a collection.
  • We are currently looking for full-length poetry collections.
  • Your submission should be between 60-90 pages in length.
  • Paginated, 12 pt. Times New Roman. 
  • Each poem should begin on its own page.
  • Please include a table of contents and a cover page. 
  • Please submit your work as a PDF document.
  • Please only submit work written in English.
  • Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please withdraw your submission if your manuscript has been accepted elsewhere. 


Host Publications awards writers with $2,500, 25 author copies, dedicated editorial work from our skilled editors, a book launch in Austin, Texas, and energetic promotion from our staff. We also offer our authors the opportunity to be a guest on our literary podcast, The Host Dispatch.

A limited number of free entries will be available for writers for whom the reading fee presents a financial hardship. Please contact us at editors@hostpublications.com.

We encourage to all who submit that familiarize themselves with our most recent publications. You may purchase our titles on our website or through our distributor. 

Bonus content: listen to editors Claire Bowman and Annar Veröld discuss what they're looking for this submissions period on the Host Publications Podcast, The Host Dispatch. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Podbean.

Submissions will be reviewed and participants will be notified by February 1st, 2025.

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Submit to Poetry Manuscript Submission

We are currently looking for full-length poetry collections by historically marginalized writers. 

Our mission as an independent, intersectional feminist press is to publish groundbreaking poetry by women writers, BIPOC writers, LGBTQ+ writers, writers of a lower socio-economic status, and writers with disabilities. We want to champion work that is experimental and nuanced, engaging with a poetics of liberation, even as it explores the experiences of daily life. We are passionate about publishing poetry that pushes the boundaries of form, voice, language and style—the boundaries of what language 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.
 

Poetry Guidelines

  • All submissions must be original work, previously unpublished as a collection.
  • We are currently looking for full-length poetry collections.
  • Your submission should be between 60-90 pages in length.
  • Paginated, 12 pt. Times New Roman. 
  • Each poem should begin on its own page.
  • Please include a table of contents and a cover page. 
  • Please submit your work as a PDF document.
  • Please only submit work written in English.
  • Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please withdraw your submission if your manuscript has been accepted elsewhere. 


 

Host Publications awards writers with $2,500, 25 author copies, dedicated editorial work from our skilled editors, a book launch in Austin, Texas, and energetic promotion from our staff. We also offer our authors the opportunity to be a guest on our literary podcast, The Host Dispatch.

The best way to know what we’re looking for is to familiarize yourself with our previous publications, which include: 


 

A limited number of free entries will be available for writers for whom the reading fee presents a financial hardship. Please contact us at editors@hostpublications.com.

We encourage to all who submit that familiarize themselves with our most recent publications. You may purchase our titles on our website or through our distributor. 

Submissions will be reviewed and participants will be notified by February 1st, 2025.

Ends on $15.00
$15.00
Submit to Short Fiction or Novella Manuscript Submission

We are currently looking for fiction manuscripts—specifically short story collections or novellas—by historically marginalized writers. 

Our mission as an independent, intersectional feminist press is to publish groundbreaking poetry by women writers, BIPOC writers, LGBTQ+ writers, writers of a lower socio-economic status, and writers with disabilities. We are passionate about publishing fiction that pushes the boundaries of form, narrative and style—the boundaries of what stories can do. 

Submissions are open to any US-based writer. Though we love and have historically published works in translation, all submissions for this period must be original work written in English.

 

Fiction Guidelines

  • All submissions must be original work, previously unpublished as a collection.
  • We are currently looking for collections of short stories or novellas.
  • Your submission should be between 150-200 pages (or roughly 30,000 - 50,000 words) in length.
  • Please use double-spacing.
  • Paginated, 12 pt. Times New Roman. 
  • Please include a table of contents and a cover page. 
  • Please submit your work as a PDF.
  • Please only submit work written in English.
  • Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please withdraw your submission if your manuscript has been accepted elsewhere. 

 

Host Publications awards writers with $2,500, 25 author copies, dedicated editorial work from our skilled editors, a book launch in Austin, Texas, and energetic promotion from our staff. We also offer our authors the opportunity to be a guest on our literary podcast, The Host Dispatch.

A limited number of free entries will be available for writers for whom the reading fee presents a financial hardship. Please contact us at editors@hostpublications.com.

We encourage to all who submit that familiarize themselves with our most recent publications. You may purchase our titles on our website or through our distributor. 

Submissions will be reviewed and participants will be notified by February 1st, 2025.

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