Submit to Cantarabooks
At the moment we are open only to unsolicited submissions of novellas, story collections or literary reportage 20-30,000 words for our ebook series of new writing in English.
Authors with shorter work, please go to Cantaraville.
Media inquiries, fax 866.365.4874.
Send entire manuscript. Submissions must be sent by email and be in .doc, .rtf or .txt file attachment, single-spaced, in 12 pt. Times New Roman or Arial font. Optional in format: 1" margin all around, footed page numbers, either justified left margin or fully-justified margins. Don't make yourself crazy, just send us a readable manuscript. And make sure it's free of typos. (The main turn-off of our Executive Editor is the use of the contraction "it's" for the possessive "its.")
Translations are welcome. No other length or literary forms other than those listed above will be read or considered.
For authors who might be hestitant to submit a short story collection that falls within our 30,000 maximum word count, here for online perusal/download is Katherine Mansfield's star-making first book, In a German Pension, published in 1911. For authors who have been discouraged to write in the novella form, here for online perusal/download is Henry James's Daisy Miller.
Hard copy submissions will not be considered and will be immediately discarded. No proposals—full manuscripts only. No illustrations or photographs, please.
In the body of your email include your full name, your pen name (if any), phone number, street address, website URL (if any), a one-paragraph description of your work, and the word count.
Cantarabooks is an American micropress of both ebooks and paperbacks with a growing international audience and a growing reputation for editorial excellence. We offer attractive terms for authors at any stage of their careers and similar royalty percentages as the best of other small presses. However, unlike many of them we ask only for two-year rights (renewable) to publish in the forms outlined in our Agreements.
Submit your manuscript for consideration to Senior Editor, Michael Matheny, at cantarabooks@gmail.com. Receipt of your submission will be acknowledged right away and we'll try to get back to you with an answer within two months.
Cantarabooks is modeled, editorially, after Hogarth Press, which was founded in 1917 by authors Leonard and Virginia Woolf. An article about the similarities between Cantarabooks and Hogarth Press can be found here.
