[Augustan Age]: Book-Length & Chapbook Poetry Manuscripts

This is the Augustan Age submission portal for book-length poetry manuscripts. Please know what it is before submitting.

• Book-length or chapbook-length POETRY collections only.
• Open to all styles, themes, formats, types, subjects, or lengths, including form poetry, prose poetry, experimental, single longform poems, erasure, or hybrid works. The term "poetry" is loosely defined here.
• Manuscript must be at least 15 typed pages, but there's no other minimum or maximum guidelines or rules on word count, page count, font size, etc.
• WE DO NOT PUBLISH A.I.-GENERATED POETRY. FULL STOP. The point of poetry is human connection, so we expect work to be written by actual humans.
• Any interior illustrations will only be printed in grayscale. We don't publish full-color interiors.
• Must be 18 to submit.
• We pay 30% net proceeds for paperback and ebook sales.
• Submit a cover letter that briefly explains your book, pitches or hooks, audience, special marketing ideas or connections you have for sales, form(s) or style(s) (haiku, free verse, etc.), poetry-readers groups you're part of, expertise with the subject(s), or anything else you think we need to know about you or your book. You can either attach this cover letter as part of your submission or paste it into the cover letter field.
• We do consider translations, as long as the work is translated into English as one of the presented languages. The translator should describe any credentials for the translation in the cover letter.
• We do consider completed poetry anthologies by multiple authors. The editor should describe any credentials for the anthology in the cover letter.
• Submit your entire manuscript. Once we start reading, we won't want to stop!
• There is a $12 reading fee to support our press and pay our readers. Reading submissions takes an incredible amount of time, and charging a small reading fee allows us to give your manuscript the care and attention it deserves. We thank you so much for your support. Each submission comes with an ebook of our latest poetry title, but since we're new and don't have a published title yet, the included ebook is We Meant to Bring It Home Alive by Armin Tolentino, a book we wish we'd published!

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