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Lanternfish Press [1]

Basic Information
Address: 
P.O. Box 34569
Zip / Postal Code: 
19101
Submission Guidelines: 
https://lanternfishpress.com/submissions [2]
City: 
Philadelphia
Website: 
https://lanternfishpress.com [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
Pennsylvania
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Marketing and Sales Director
Contact First Name: 
Feliza
Casano
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Period: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025 to Saturday, May 31, 2025
Response Time: 
3 to 6 months
Book Types: 
Novella
Essay collections
Novel
Memoir
Formats: 
Paperback
E-book
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Distributors: 
Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
Tips From the Editor: 

We are open for submissions once per year for one month, with the month in question changing based on our schedule in-house. View active calls for submissions at www.lanternfishpress.submittable.com [4]. View general submissions guidelines at www.lanternfishpress.com/submissions [5]. Manuscripts sent via email will not be considered. Please note that we do not publish short story collections. We seek the grotesque, the alien made familiar, the “I don’t know what this is—but I love it.”

Titles per Year: 
6 to 10
Editorial Focus: 

Lanternfish Press, founded in Philadelphia in 2013, publishes literature of the rare and strange: fiction that crosses the boundary between literary and speculative; real or imagined tales of characters at the margins of history; essays rooted in a strong sense of place. Lanternfish Press also publishes Clockwork Editions, a cabinet of curious Victorian reprints.

Representative Authors: 

T. Marie Bertineau, Andrew Katz, Zachary C. Solomon, Carmen Maria Machado, Vikram Paralkar, Anca L. Szilagyi, M.M. Olivas

 

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
4
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir [6]
BIPOC Voices [7]
Commercial Fiction [8]
Cross-genre [9]
Experimental [10]
LGBTQ Voices [11]
Literary Fiction [12]
Narrative Nonfiction [13]
Speculative Fiction [14]
Translation [15]

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

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/lanternfish_press [2] https://lanternfishpress.com/submissions [3] https://lanternfishpress.com [4] http://www.lanternfishpress.submittable.com [5] http://www.lanternfishpress.com/submissions [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/autobiographymemoir [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/bipoc-voices [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/commercial_fiction [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/experimental [11] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/glbt [12] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [13] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/narrative_nonfiction [14] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/speculative-fiction [15] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/translation