General Submissions are Open
We seek book-length manuscripts in poetry, memoir, fiction, and creative nonfiction that reflect the highest standards of literary quality. We are especially interested in lifting compelling stories, marginalized voices, and works dealing with social awareness or advocacy.
All contracts are individually-tailored and priced to ensure the best balance of affordability and quality based on the needs of your project.
Submissions: Guidelines & Requirements
• Must be written in English
• Prose should be double-spaced and all pages paginated
• Acceptable formats for manuscripts are DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF, and PDF.
• All work (poetry or prose) must be original (no translations) and previously unpublished as a collection. Individually published poems may be acknowledged.
• Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Notify us immediately if work is accepted elsewhere.
• The open submissions period is not a contest; manuscripts are not reviewed anonymously.
• Multiple submissions are acceptable, but must be submitted with separate reading fees.
What to include on your manuscript’s title page:
• name
• address
• telephone number
• email address
• title of manuscript
• genre
To submit your manuscript:
1. Send your manuscript as an email attachment.
Email us at submissions [at] sablebooks (dot) org.
2. Submit a reading fee of $50.00 USD:
Each submission is individually read and responded to by an editor. Our editors will send a personal response to your work.
Thank you for your interest and support.
A word about the reading fee.
We do not require authors to presell their books. Additionally, it is our belief that writers should earn from their book sales.
Sable Books is a small, nonprofit publisher without support from any university or larger organization.
To offset the cost of the substantial editorial time required to review and respond individually to all manuscripts, there is a non-refundable reading fee of $50.
You are welcome to submit as many manuscripts as you like, as long as you send a separate reading fee for each.