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JLRB Press [1]

Basic Information
Submission Guidelines: 
https://jlrbpress.ca/submit [2]
City: 
Nanaimo
Website: 
https://jlrbpress.ca [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
British Columbia
Country: 
Canada
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Publisher (jlrbpress.ca/contact)
Contact First Name: 
Lucía M.
Polis
Details
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Period: 
Friday, August 1, 2025 to Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Response Time: 
Less than 3 months
Book Types: 
Chapbook
Poetry collections
Formats: 
Paperback
Hardcover
E-book
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
No
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Distributors: 
We organize our own distribution to bookstores in Western Canada (including Nanaimo, Victoria, Vancouver, and Calgary) from our own printing partner in Alberta, as well as print-on-demand distribution worldwide through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Tips From the Editor: 

You must submit original works in English (copyright owned) with strong poetic craft and sensitivity to diversity and inclusion.

You may submit coauthored, previously published (rights owned), or out-of-print works; simultaneous subs (contact us if accepted); or fictionalized autobiographies without identifiable real-world parallels (we might decline certain topics).

You must not submit unsolicited, prose-heavy, AI-assisted, visual, multimedia, in-print, or rights-bound works; graphic novels; song lyrics; memoirs resembling real people or events; or works with exclusionary politics or harmful stereotypes.

Titles per Year: 
1 to 5
Editorial Focus: 

JLRB Press is a small-run imprint that specializes in poetry, with a strong emphasis on queer, transgender, women’s, neurodivergent, and emerging voices.

Representative Authors: 

Thomas Doerksen, M.A. Dubbs, Jacalyn Eyvonne, S. Rupsha Mitra

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
1-2
Publishing type: 
print only [4]
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir [5]
BIPOC Voices [6]
Creative Nonfiction [7]
Cross-genre [8]
Erotica [9]
Experimental [10]
Feminist [11]
Formal Poetry [12]
LGBTQ Voices [13]
Literary Fiction [14]
Love [15]
Narrative Nonfiction [16]
Political [17]
Prose Poetry [18]
Speculative Poetry [19]
Translation [20]
Visual Poetry [21]
Source URL:https://www.pw.org/small_presses/jlrb_press

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/jlrb_press [2] https://jlrbpress.ca/submit [3] https://jlrbpress.ca [4] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/print_only [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/autobiographymemoir [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/bipoc-voices [7] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/17192 [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/erotica [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/experimental [11] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/feminist [12] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/formal [13] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/glbt [14] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [15] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/love [16] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/narrative_nonfiction [17] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/political [18] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/prose_poetry [19] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/speculative-poetry [20] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/translation [21] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/visual-poetry