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Submitting a Proposal

Please email your proposal to the appropriate acquisitions editor. We strive to respond to all submissions in a timely manner. Please note, however, that we receive and carefully consider hundreds of submissions each month. This takes time and it may take up to two months to respond to you so we encourage your patience. If an editor is interested in your proposal, he or she will be in touch about the next steps in the evaluation and publication process. If we request your manuscript, we prefer that you send it to us on an exclusive basis.

Scholarly proposals should include:

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Proposals for edited collections should also provide a list of contributors, indicating which have committed to the project and which pieces have been previously published.

Trade proposals (sports, Potomac Books, Bison Books) should include:

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For trade creative works (Nebraska imprint), submissions must be submitted via Submittable and include:

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Zero Street Fiction submissions must be submitted separately here.

Poetry

We publish contemporary poetry in established series only. The prizes and series listed below accept unsolicited poetry submissions. Please refer to the submission links below and series descriptions on our website for more information.

African Poetry Book series submissions must be submitted here.

The Backwaters Prize in Poetry submissions must be submitted here.

The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize submissions must be submitted here.

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