I tried to submit my poetry manuscript in the form of an MS Word doc. Information on submission page at the very bottom said "uploaded", so something went in. But a red text beside both places for my texts said "incomplete". Failed submitting, so I could not pay. I have a password for my account. Please help, preferably per email. Maria
Just submitted a book-length manuscript! I have a great respect for this project and am excited to be a part of it, if only to populate the cutting-room floor.
While we're all asking preliminary questions, would an illustrated work (all original art) be acceptable, please? Simply because some (well at least one) piece is ekphrastic and flippin' abstract in both cases! Either way, what a brilliant venture. I've been so disillusioned about submissions in recent years - and suddenly someone is looking for what we write, not what they can tell us what to write. I care not about rejection when it's like this - it's the joy of getting stuck in. Which reminds me, the reading fee is a good idea.
Can you tell me how the manuscripts will be published? Will you publish online or retail sales? Will the people you choose to publish receive royalties from the sales? Thank you.
Yes, we print 250 limited edition copies (and 2-3 fine art copies). As we're a nonprofit and in our first year all monies received go to cover the costs of producing, distributing, and bringing our press to life. We do plan to give artist copies - but we're not a profit making organization so margins are tight (we will most likely run at a loss and we rely on donations).
We will sell through our online story and independent bookstores.
What are you looking for? If you’d consider a deformed monster child spawned from a menage-a-trois between Yeats, Larkin, and Bukowski, then I’m your man. If it’s Instagram poetry or Amanda Gorman probably not.
We’re interested in poems that engage the human condition without reducing it. Work that sits with contradiction, intimacy, failure, desire, grief, humor, love, aging, power, faith, doubt, and the quiet mechanics of daily life.
By craft, we mean attention. Line, rhythm, image, pressure, silence. Poems that know why they break where they break, why a metaphor earns its place, why a voice modulates instead of declares. Not polish for its own sake, but deliberateness.
We’re less drawn to poetry that explains itself or performs its righteousness. More to work that trusts the reader, risks ambiguity, and understands that meaning accumulates rather than announces.
If a poem wrestles honestly with being human and shows evidence of care in how it’s made, it’s in conversation with what we’re trying to publish.
I'm not trying to be confrontational. I'm just trying to get a feel for the tone and style because as a new publication there's little for me to start from looking at prior examples. I have only been able to see some of your work which looks like mostly love poems to your wife and son. Most publications ask the submitting party to familiarize themselves with the type of content they publish. That's all - don't please take offense at my questions.
Hi John, this is our first ever submission period. We only just formed as a nonprofit literary press this month, so there are no previously published works.
🤔 the more I think of this the more tempted I feel alongside my latest poems on erotic union with spirit/ life - to also RE submit my honey and ash anthology - it s currently on Amazon and it did feel like laying my baby in steel laboratory newborn unit- it may feel warmer at your human hands-. It raises money for charity -
Would I need to withdraw it from Amazon?(im clue less on these things!) could I resubmit it to you???
Also, ps: I saw you out of LinkedIn in- I had messaged you there for the typewriter dream idea ! Happy to lend it your way see how it evolves or ripples ! 🙏🥰so grateful for bringing poetry to life this way
You can still submit the full (or part) manuscript for consideration, due to printing costs of our fine art prints, editorial discretion and other nonprofit considerations our first editions will most likely be between 96-144 pages in total. We don't insist on having the full manuscript in the submission as we have to ensure we read as many as possible.
Sorry for asking again, but i wasn't sure if i understood the terms correctly.
I have self-published my 177-page book through Amazon KDP. Crickets since 2022 when it came out (okay, maybe 10 copies sold), so not well-circulated at all 😪
I tried to submit my poetry manuscript in the form of an MS Word doc. Information on submission page at the very bottom said "uploaded", so something went in. But a red text beside both places for my texts said "incomplete". Failed submitting, so I could not pay. I have a password for my account. Please help, preferably per email. Maria
Can you share your email with me? There's another way you can submit. Thank you for your patience!
Sure, ernieandmaria@telus.net
Just submitted a book-length manuscript! I have a great respect for this project and am excited to be a part of it, if only to populate the cutting-room floor.
Thank you and I look forward to reading it
While we're all asking preliminary questions, would an illustrated work (all original art) be acceptable, please? Simply because some (well at least one) piece is ekphrastic and flippin' abstract in both cases! Either way, what a brilliant venture. I've been so disillusioned about submissions in recent years - and suddenly someone is looking for what we write, not what they can tell us what to write. I care not about rejection when it's like this - it's the joy of getting stuck in. Which reminds me, the reading fee is a good idea.
I’d recommend submitting what your heart desires for our consideration. Thank you for the kind words
Can you tell me how the manuscripts will be published? Will you publish online or retail sales? Will the people you choose to publish receive royalties from the sales? Thank you.
Yes, we print 250 limited edition copies (and 2-3 fine art copies). As we're a nonprofit and in our first year all monies received go to cover the costs of producing, distributing, and bringing our press to life. We do plan to give artist copies - but we're not a profit making organization so margins are tight (we will most likely run at a loss and we rely on donations).
We will sell through our online story and independent bookstores.
Your work found me one morning sobbing in the cup of forgetting and the lending of humanity s soul to AI …
I was close to exit Substack .. seeing us becoming caricatures of some sort of steel God
then your project came to bring a spring of life in my ribs
I may be having a go at this, I don’t see myself as a poet but a human whose heart s fractals of galactic dust
At the grief
The beauty
The horror and terrifying invitation to remain alive at a time of decay 🙏thank you so much for this resurrection !🥹🙏
Maybe I just submit and you can then decide whether it's eligible or not 🙏🏻
What are you looking for? If you’d consider a deformed monster child spawned from a menage-a-trois between Yeats, Larkin, and Bukowski, then I’m your man. If it’s Instagram poetry or Amanda Gorman probably not.
Please check out the submissions page and our website. That’ll give you a feel for our press and approach :) https://inkandribbon.org
Oh I did, I fancy the approach but there's much guesswork regarding the type of content.
We’re interested in poems that engage the human condition without reducing it. Work that sits with contradiction, intimacy, failure, desire, grief, humor, love, aging, power, faith, doubt, and the quiet mechanics of daily life.
By craft, we mean attention. Line, rhythm, image, pressure, silence. Poems that know why they break where they break, why a metaphor earns its place, why a voice modulates instead of declares. Not polish for its own sake, but deliberateness.
We’re less drawn to poetry that explains itself or performs its righteousness. More to work that trusts the reader, risks ambiguity, and understands that meaning accumulates rather than announces.
If a poem wrestles honestly with being human and shows evidence of care in how it’s made, it’s in conversation with what we’re trying to publish.
I'm not trying to be confrontational. I'm just trying to get a feel for the tone and style because as a new publication there's little for me to start from looking at prior examples. I have only been able to see some of your work which looks like mostly love poems to your wife and son. Most publications ask the submitting party to familiarize themselves with the type of content they publish. That's all - don't please take offense at my questions.
Hi John, this is our first ever submission period. We only just formed as a nonprofit literary press this month, so there are no previously published works.
Hey Greg-
🤔 the more I think of this the more tempted I feel alongside my latest poems on erotic union with spirit/ life - to also RE submit my honey and ash anthology - it s currently on Amazon and it did feel like laying my baby in steel laboratory newborn unit- it may feel warmer at your human hands-. It raises money for charity -
Would I need to withdraw it from Amazon?(im clue less on these things!) could I resubmit it to you???
Also, ps: I saw you out of LinkedIn in- I had messaged you there for the typewriter dream idea ! Happy to lend it your way see how it evolves or ripples ! 🙏🥰so grateful for bringing poetry to life this way
only 50-100 pages?
My new manuscript is 217 pages of soul-retrieving poetry from the dreamtime.
guess I will be indy publishing again.
the work you're doing looks wonderful!!
Hi Valerie
You can still submit the full (or part) manuscript for consideration, due to printing costs of our fine art prints, editorial discretion and other nonprofit considerations our first editions will most likely be between 96-144 pages in total. We don't insist on having the full manuscript in the submission as we have to ensure we read as many as possible.
Best, G. K.
Hello G.K. 👋
Sorry for asking again, but i wasn't sure if i understood the terms correctly.
I have self-published my 177-page book through Amazon KDP. Crickets since 2022 when it came out (okay, maybe 10 copies sold), so not well-circulated at all 😪
Was hoping i can still submit? For reference, my website is https://www.conversationsineverhadwithluna.com I also have published on other socials and journals.
Please let me know.
Thanks! ☺️🙏🏻
Please feel free to submit and we’ll review as normal :)