Sarabande Books: July Open Reading Period
Deadline July 31 (must be received by this date). Sarabande Books, a prestigious literary press in Kentucky, is open in July for full-length manuscripts of poetry, short fiction, hybrid-genre writing, and creative nonfiction, as well as translation proposals. Submission fee is $30 for manuscripts and $20 for proposals. Prose manuscripts should be 150-250 double-spaced pages; poetry, minimum 48 single-spaced pages. Authors in their extensive catalogue include poets Kaveh Akbar, Rick Barot, Frank Bidart, Cate Marvin, and Ander Monson; fiction writers Sallie Bingham and Randa Jarrar; and nonfiction/hybrid authors Mary Ruefle and Lydia Davis.
Source: https://sarabandebooks.submittable.com/submit
Published: July 1, 2025
