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CavanKerry Press [1]

Basic Information

Address:

5 Horizon Road

Address (line 2):

#2403

Zip / Postal Code:

07024

Submission Guidelines:

https://cavankerrypress.org/pages/submissions [2]

City:

Fort Lee

Website:

https://cavankerrypress.org [3]

Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.):

State:

New Jersey

Country:

United States

Contact Information

Contact Title:

Director and Managing Editor

Contact First Name:

Gabriel

Cleveland

Contact E-mail:

Details

Genres Published:

Poetry

Creative Nonfiction

Publishes Through Contests Only:

Reading Period:

Tuesday, July 1, 2025 to Thursday, July 31, 2025

Response Time:

3 to 6 months

Book Types:

Essay collections

Memoir

Poetry collections

Formats:

Paperback

E-book

Charges Reading Fee:

Yes

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Distributors:

The Chicago Distribution Center at the University of Chicago Press

Tips From the Editor:

Please review guidelines before submitting manuscripts. Familiarize yourself with some of CavanKerry’s work. You can find a sample of the quality of our authors and the type of work we publish over at www.cavankerrypress.org/words-to-keep-yo... [4].

Most of all, we want to connect to you through your writing—to step into your world and understand its shape and the experiences which have made it that way. The most successful manuscripts will not be buried in layers of allusion, but will be welcome and illuminating, revealing something true and unobscured about the life that led the poems within to be crafted.

Titles per Year:

6 to 10

Editorial Focus:

CavanKerry Press seeks materials from the broadest range of writers, including people of color and people with disabilities. We are partial to writers whose distinct voices are emotionally accessible and daring. We discourage victim-ridden, pedagogic, politically preachy, or sentimental material. CKP does not publish self-help, how-to, romance or sci-fi. For more info, see https://cavankerrypress.org/pages/submis... [2].

Representative Authors:

Robert Cording, Mary Ruefle, Ross Gay, Catherine Doty, Jack Wiler, Andrea Carter Brown, Sondra Gash

How many authors debut in each issue?:

Varies - typically between 1 and 5

Publishing type:

print only [5]

Subgenres:

Autobiography/Memoir [6]

BIPOC Voices [7]

Creative Nonfiction [8]

Feminist [9]

Healing/Health [10]

LGBTQ Voices [11]

Narrative Nonfiction [12]

Prose Poetry [13]

Temporarily closed to submissions