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Twelve House Books [1]

Basic Information
Submission Guidelines: 
https://Twelve-House-Books.org [2]
City: 
Burlington
Website: 
https://Twelve-House-Books.org [2]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
Vermont
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Acquisitions Editor
Contact First Name: 
Scath
Beorh
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Period: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 to Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Response Time: 
Less than 3 months
Book Types: 
Novella
Short story collections
Poetry collections
Formats: 
Paperback
Hardcover
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
No
Distributors: 
Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Amazon
Tips From the Editor: 

Your submission should be attached in a DOCX file. No Transgressive writings. Your manuscript will be judged on its first paragraph. Avoid expletives. All submissions are subjected to AI detectors. No simultaneous submissions. Multiple submissions okay. No Sci-Fi unless it is Bradburyesque in flavor. We expect high-quality edited literature. No marketing plan is required. All royalties are paid yearly via PayPal. Year-round call for manuscripts! All prose manuscripts must be at least 40K words. Upper limits are 50K for novels and 100K for short story collections. Narrative Poems and Poetry manuscripts must be at least 90 pages.

Titles per Year: 
1 to 5
Editorial Focus: 

Twelve House Books is an independent publisher that releases a variety of fiction and poetry every year. The Acquisitions Editor looks for Ghost Stories, Speculative Fiction, Narrative Poems and Collections, Contes Cruels, Childhood Nostalgia, and stories set in Hollywood / Los Angeles.

Representative Authors: 

Stefani Christova, Lamont A. Turner, Aaron Padley, Kim Malinowski, David Kart, Evan James Sheldon 

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
no specific number
Publishing type: 
print only [3]
Subgenres: 
BIPOC Voices [4]
Creative Nonfiction [5]
Cross-genre [6]
Flash Fiction [7]
Formal Poetry [8]
Historical [9]
Humor [10]
Literary Fiction [11]
Lyric Essay [12]
Micro-poetry [13]
Prose Poetry [14]
Short Fiction [15]
Speculative Fiction [16]
Speculative Poetry [17]
Young Adult [18]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/small_presses/twelve_house_books

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/twelve_house_books [2] https://Twelve-House-Books.org [3] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/print_only [4] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/bipoc-voices [5] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/17192 [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/flash_fiction [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/formal [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/historical [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/humor [11] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [12] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/17191 [13] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/micropoetry [14] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/prose_poetry [15] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/short-fiction [16] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/speculative-fiction [17] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/speculative-poetry [18] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/young-adult