Submission Guidelines:

Please email Query Letter before sending a whole manuscript.

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi

"We are happy to receive a query from anyone who has a voice to add to the literature of our time -- a story to tell in poetry, fiction, nonfiction or memoir."

Susan Bright
Poet/Publisher,
Plain View Press

Submission Guidelines: Poetry and Literary Fiction,
Memoir and Nonfiction, Plain View Press, 2010

Our standard is literary and our mission is to create beautiful and meaningful books that work in the world to change the world. Here is what we say on our home page.

Plain View Press is a 35-year-old issue-based literary publishing house. We have published over 350 titles and nearly 500 writers from many countries. Despite evidence that relentless violence has taken root worldwide, there is hope and there are artists to show the human face of it. We publish contemporary literature.

Please query with a brief description of the work, your name, full address, phone number, etc and an excerpt of your work – 5 pages of poetry, up to 10 pgs of prose – copied into an email message or send one word file attached to an email message. We prefer email queries.

We will let you know if we want you to send a whole manuscript.

We are selective, receive between 3 and 5 queries a day and will publish about sixty books this year.

While people do send snail mail queries or unsolicited manuscripts, it takes longer for us to reply to those and you must include email contact information because we communicate with our writers almost totally via email.

We publish books, not chapbooks, or short individual pieces of work. The minimum finished book length for us is 80 pgs.

Our process is collaborative meaning you will be involved in every aspect of book making. It is an exciting and creative endeavor and we welcome letters of inquiry. You will find us open to activist and /or literary content many publishers won't touch.

We have recently begun to publish spoken word CD's to accompany the books we present. If you are selected to do a book with us -- ask about this option.

If and when you send a manuscript please include email contact information as well as your name and address on the title page, and some kind of identification on every page.

We will take electronic manuscripts if the writer lives outside the United States, after a query and an invitation from us to submit the whole manuscript.

Plain View Press is so named because we want people to be able to tell the truth about their lives. We are happy to receive a query from anyone who has a voice to add to the literature of our time -- a story to tell in poetry, fiction, nonfiction or memoir.

Onward

Susan Bright, Poet/Publisher
Plain View Press