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Essay Press [1]

Basic Information
Submission Guidelines: 
https://essaypress.org/submissions [2]
City: 
Buffalo
Website: 
https://essaypress.org [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
New York
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Editor
Contact First Name: 
Travis
Sharp
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Period: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 to Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Response Time: 
3 to 6 months
Book Types: 
Chapbook
Essay collections
Formats: 
Paperback
Charges Reading Fee: 
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Distributors: 
Asterism
Tips From the Editor: 

Work / chapters / individual essays may have been previously published in other publications, such as periodicals, although editors encourage submissions that include new material.

Titles per Year: 
1 to 5
Editorial Focus: 

Essay Press holds print chapbook contests in the summer and print book contests in the fall. The editors particularly welcome manuscripts that extend or challenge the formal range of nonfiction—including, but not limited to, lyric essays and prose poems/poetics; experimental biography and autobiography; innovative approaches to journalism, experimental historiography, criticism, scholarship, and philosophy. Simultaneous submissions, multiple submissions, collaborative manuscripts, and digital and hybridized text/art manuscripts all are encouraged.

Representative Authors: 

Kristin Prevallet, John D'Agata, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Amaranth Borsuk, Lily Hoang, Wayne Koestenbaum

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
1-4
Publishing type: 
online and print [4]
Subgenres: 
Creative Nonfiction [5]
Cross-genre [6]
Experimental [7]
Lyric Essay [8]
Temporarily closed to submissions

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

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/essay_press [2] https://essaypress.org/submissions [3] https://essaypress.org [4] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/online_and_print [5] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/17192 [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/experimental [8] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/17191