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Alternating Current Press [1]

Basic Information
Zip / Postal Code: 
80302
Submission Guidelines: 
https://altcurrentpress.com/submissions [2]
City: 
Boulder
Website: 
https://altcurrentpress.com [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
Colorado
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
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
Novella
Short story collections
Essay collections
Novel
Memoir
Poetry collections
Formats: 
Paperback
Hardcover
E-book
Audio
Charges Reading Fee: 
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Distributors: 
Ingram, KDP, Asterism Books
Tips From the Editor: 

OCTOBER 2024 open submissions: Futurist Debut Book Award, Front Range Book Prize, Book-Length Nonfiction, Book-Length Poetry, Luminaire Prose Award, Charter Oak Award/Footnote, The Coil, We've Always Done It!: Poems about Wartime Women, and Maintain the North: An Epic Mountie Adventure Anthology.

Titles per Year: 
11 to 20
Editorial Focus: 

Alternating Current Press is an indie press dedicated to publishing and promoting incredible literature that challenges readers and has an innate sense of self, timelessness, and atmosphere. The editors love science, history, homebound roots, rural landscapes, sense of place, poetic literary fiction, diverse voices, and all that is electric in the literary world.

Representative Authors: 

Carmen Lau, Eric Shonkwiler, Schuler Benson, Charles P. Ries, David Leo Rice, Allison Boyd Justus, Tabitha Blankenbiller, Lyn Lifshin

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
~75% debut authors in our catalog
Publishing type: 
online and print [4]
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir [5]
BIPOC Voices [6]
Creative Nonfiction [7]
Cross-genre [8]
Flash Fiction [9]
Historical [10]
LGBTQ Voices [11]
Literary Fiction [12]
Lyric Essay [13]
Narrative Nonfiction [14]
Nature/Environmental [15]
Pop Culture [16]
Prose Poetry [17]
Regional [18]
Short Fiction [19]
Speculative Poetry [20]
Translation [21]

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

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/alternating_current_press [2] https://altcurrentpress.com/submissions [3] https://altcurrentpress.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/bipoc-voices [7] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/17192 [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/flash_fiction [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/historical [11] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/glbt [12] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [13] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/17191 [14] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/narrative_nonfiction [15] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/nature-environmental [16] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/pop_culture [17] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/prose_poetry [18] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/regional [19] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/short-fiction [20] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/speculative-poetry [21] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/translation