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Ugly Duckling Presse [1]

Basic Information
Address: 
The Old American Can Factory
Address (line 2): 
232 Third Street
Zip / Postal Code: 
11215
Submission Guidelines: 
https://uglyducklingpresse.org/about/submissions [2]
City: 
Brooklyn
Website: 
https://uglyducklingpresse.org [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
New York
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact First Name: 
Ugly Duckling
Presse
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Period: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 to Sunday, August 31, 2025
Response Time: 
3 to 6 months
Book Types: 
Chapbook
Novella
Short story collections
Essay collections
Novel
Memoir
Poetry collections
Formats: 
Paperback
Hardcover
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
No
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Distributors: 
Asterism Books (all titles including chapbooks), Inpress Books (for U.K. orders), direct from website
Tips From the Editor: 

We announce open reading periods on our newsletter and social media at www.uglyducklingpresse.org/mailing-list [4] and @uglyducklingpresse.

Titles per Year: 
Greater than 20
Editorial Focus: 

Ugly Duckling Presse is a mission-driven small press that publishes poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. UDP favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers, and its books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, and periodicals often contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking. In all of its activities, UDP endeavors to create an experience of art free of expectation, coercion, and utility.

Representative Authors: 

Lewis Warsh, Simone White, Constance De Jong, Basie Allen, Tammy Nguyen, Natalee Cruz,  Anne Boyer, Cecilia Vicuña, N.H. Pritchard, Alejandra Pizarnik, Don Mee Choi, sadé powell, Bruce Andrews

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
Depends, but we consistently publish new voices.
Publishing type: 
online and print [5]
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir [6]
BIPOC Voices [7]
Creative Nonfiction [8]
Cross-genre [9]
Experimental [10]
Feminist [11]
Formal Poetry [12]
LGBTQ Voices [13]
Literary Fiction [14]
Lyric Essay [15]
Micro-poetry [16]
Narrative Nonfiction [17]
Prose Poetry [18]
Translation [19]
Visual Poetry [20]
Temporarily closed to submissions

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

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/ugly_duckling_presse [2] https://uglyducklingpresse.org/about/submissions [3] https://uglyducklingpresse.org [4] http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/mailing-list [5] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/online_and_print [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/autobiographymemoir [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/bipoc-voices [8] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/17192 [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [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/subgenres/17191 [16] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/micropoetry [17] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/narrative_nonfiction [18] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/prose_poetry [19] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/translation [20] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/visual-poetry