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Bywater Books [1]

Basic Information
Address: 
3415 Porter Road
Zip / Postal Code: 
48103
Submission Guidelines: 
https://bywaterbooks.com/manuscript-submission-for… [2]
City: 
Ann Arbor
Website: 
https://bywaterbooks.com [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
Michigan
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Publisher
Contact First Name: 
Salem
West
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Fiction
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: 
Short story collections
Essay collections
Novel
Memoir
Formats: 
Paperback
E-book
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
No
Distributors: 
Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Tips From the Editor: 

Bywater Books does not publish poetry or erotica.

Titles per Year: 
11 to 20
Editorial Focus: 

Bywater Books, Inc. represents the coming of age of queer literature.

The Bywater Books mission is to publish well-written commercial literature primarily targeted at lesbian, sapphic, and wlw readers—this includes trans women.

The Amble Press mission is to publish fiction and narrative nonfiction by queer writers of diverse identities within the LGBTQ+ community, with a primary, though not exclusive, focus on queer writers of color.

At Bywater Books and Amble Press, everyone is a story.

Representative Authors: 

Kate Clinton, Val McDermid, Ellen Hart, Marianne K. Martin, Katherine V. Forrest, Georgia Beers, Ann McMan, Jesse Blackadder, Carol Rosenfeld, Jill Malone, Wynn Malone, Mari SanGiovanni

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
2
Publishing type: 
online and print [4]
Subgenres: 
LGBTQ Voices [5]
Temporarily closed to submissions

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

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/bywater_books [2] https://bywaterbooks.com/manuscript-submission-form [3] https://bywaterbooks.com [4] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/online_and_print [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/glbt