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Akashic Books [1]

Basic Information
Address: 
232 Third Street
Address (line 2): 
Suite A115
Zip / Postal Code: 
11215
Submission Guidelines: 
https://akashicbooks.com/submissions [2]
City: 
Brooklyn
Website: 
https://akashicbooks.com [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
New York
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Managing Editor
Contact First Name: 
Johanna
Ingalls
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Fiction
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Period: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 to Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Response Time: 
3 to 6 months
Book Types: 
Novella
Short story collections
Essay collections
Novel
Memoir
Formats: 
Paperback
Hardcover
E-book
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Distributors: 
W. W. Norton
Titles per Year: 
Greater than 20
Editorial Focus: 

Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing literary fiction, crime fiction, music/pop culture books, and political nonfiction by authors who are either ignored by the mainstream, or who have no interest in working within the ever-consolidating ranks of the major corporate publishers.

Representative Authors: 

Bernice L. McFadden, Nina Revoyr, Joe Meno, Nelson George, Adam Mansbach, Elizabeth Nunez, Arthur Nersesian

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
1-5
Publishing type: 
online and print [4]
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir [5]
LGBTQ Voices [6]
Literary Fiction [7]
Political [8]
Pop Culture [9]
Short Fiction [10]
Speculative Fiction [11]
Temporarily closed to submissions
Source URL:https://www.pw.org/content/akashic_books

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/content/akashic_books [2] https://akashicbooks.com/submissions [3] https://akashicbooks.com [4] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/online_and_print [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/autobiographymemoir [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/glbt [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/political [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/pop_culture [10] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/short-fiction [11] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/speculative-fiction