Dalkey Archive receives approximately 12,000 unsolicited manuscripts per year. We do not have the time or financial resources to respond to these submissions in a timely way. Please review our submission guidelines below.
Submission Guidelines
If you would like to submit a manuscript, please familiarize yourself with our list and the types of books we publish in order to determine whether yours would be appropriate. Please keep in mind as well that we publish primarily literary fiction, rarely poetry or non-fiction, and that we place a heavy emphasis upon fiction that belongs to the experimental tradition of Sterne, Joyce, Rabelais, Flann O’Brien, Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and Djuna Barnes.
If you would like to submit a critical or scholarly work for consideration, please see Dalkey Archive’s Scholarly Series page, here.
Additional guidelines:
* A query letter with contact information should accompany your submission.
*Please put your name and email address on each page of your sample or manuscript as a running head. Also add the name of the author and the original language of the book.
* In general, we respond within one year of receiving a submission. If you have not heard from us by the end of this period, you may contact us (by email, hyperlinked here) to check on the status of your manuscript. Contacting us earlier will not speed up the process. Please do not contact us by phone.
* Simultaneous submissions are accepted, so long as they are identified as such.
* We prefer submissions to be sent by e-mail, as attachments–saved as either PDFs or MS Word-compatible files less than 5mb in size–directed to our submissions email address (hyperlinked). Include the publisher name, DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS, in the title.
Due to the volume of submissions received, we are not able to comment at length on individual manuscripts.
