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Wave Books [1]

Basic Information
Address: 
911 East Pike Street
Address (line 2): 
Suite 321
Zip / Postal Code: 
98122
Submission Guidelines: 
https://wavepoetry.com/pages/submissions [2]
City: 
Seattle
Website: 
https://wavepoetry.com [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
Washington
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Publicity Director
Contact First Name: 
Catherine
Bresner
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Period: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 to Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Book Types: 
Chapbook
Poetry collections
Formats: 
Paperback
Hardcover
E-book
Audio
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
No
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
No
Distributors: 
Consortium, Asterism (for limited-edition hardcovers & ephemera)
Tips From the Editor: 

Wave Books is not currently accepting any unsolicited manuscripts. We do occasionally have open reading periods, so please check our submissions page for updates or sign up for our newsletter. Please note that we do publish fiction, essays, and criticism but only by poets or related to poetry. Please do not email us outside of our open reading period.

Titles per Year: 
11 to 20
Editorial Focus: 

Wave Books is an independent poetry press based in Seattle, Washington, dedicated to publishing poetry and books by poets.

Wave Books is:
Charlie Wright, Publisher
Joshua Beckman, Editor in Chief
Heidi Broadhead, Senior Editor
Matthew Zapruder, Editor at Large
Catherine Bresner, Publicity Director
Lillie Walsh, Editorial Assistant & Office Manager

Representative Authors: 

Joshua Beckman, Anselm Berrigan, Garrett Caples, CAConrad, Michael Earl Craig, Timothy Donnelly, Lisa Fishman, John Godfrey, Christian Hawkey, Caroline Knox, Noelle Kocot, Dorothea Lasky, Anthony McCann, Chelsey Minnis, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Hoa Nguyen, Geoffrey Nutter, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Matthew Rohrer, Mary Ruefle, Rod Smith, Susie Timmons, Joe Wenderoth, Dara Wier, Jon Woodward, Rachel Zucker, Don Mee Choi, Douglas Keareny, Renee Gladman, Sawako Nakayasu, Fred Moten

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
None
Publishing type: 
print only [4]
Subgenres: 
BIPOC Voices [5]
Cross-genre [6]
Experimental [7]
Feminist [8]
LGBTQ Voices [9]
Literary Fiction [10]
Political [11]
Prose Poetry [12]
Translation [13]
Visual Poetry [14]
Temporarily closed to submissions

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

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/wave_books [2] https://wavepoetry.com/pages/submissions [3] https://wavepoetry.com [4] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/print_only [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/bipoc-voices [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/experimental [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/feminist [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/glbt [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [11] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/political [12] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/prose_poetry [13] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/translation [14] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/visual-poetry