Querencia Press accepts poetry, fiction, non-fiction (including memoir), hybrid work, and occasionally visual art. We accept all submissions through Submittable. Please include a short, third-person bio and your pronouns with your submission. *hardsells are listed at the end of the guidelines
We are OPEN for chapbooks and full length manuscripts and will close in November. Anthology submissions for our unthemed quarterly anthologies are OPEN! Deadline March 1, 2025. Not Ghosts, But Spirits V submissions are CLOSED. Anything received for anthology categories outside of open submission periods will roll into the next anthology. Please read details in the category/callout you are interested in for dates and specifics—at the very least read the bolded text.
We accept simultaneous submissions and previously published work that has appeared in print or online (this includes blogs and social media). As long as you hold the copyright to the work, we want to see it.
You keep the rights to your work! Your work belongs to you!
Querencia Press does not charge a submission fee (though tips are much appreciated). If a manuscript is accepted, you will receive a contract with competitive royalty options, but we are a non-paying market for anthologies. We do not provide physical contributor copies, but we do provide a discount link for contributors.
We do not tolerate sexism, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, ableism, or any other forms of bigotry. We do accept explicit content, but please provide a trigger warning so we know what we are reading.
Querencia is a small press. We have only two readers and one full time editor. We read and consider each submission carefully in the order that it is received, and we do not believe in silent rejections. You will receive a response. Please try to resist sending follow up emails regarding when your submission will be read. We are currently processing manuscript responses on about a 5-6 month turnaround due to the volume of submissions, sometimes longer for acceptances if we have a large acceptance rate for a particular month.
All submissions should be in a single .pdf, .doc, or .docx format, however we do not require any specific formatting guidelines. Visual submissions can be sent as PDF, JPG, PNG, or TIFF (please no RAW files) Do not send us Google Docs links or Pages—we cannot use them across all of our devices, and if we have to ask for you to resend your submission in a different format, it increases your wait time (if you absolutely have to send Pages because of Apple, please inform us and know we may take a bit longer to get to your submission based on when we have a device available to access Pages). For anthology submissions we ask that you title your document with the genre and the number of pieces and to which anthology callout you are submitting (i.e. Poetry - 5 Pieces - Quarterly Anthology). We do not need a cover letter, but please include a short 3rd person bio and your pronouns with all submissions.
We are looking for chapbooks and full-lengths in any genre. For poetry and hybrid work, we are seeking work with a minimum of 20 pages. Prose manuscripts should be a minimum of 7,000 words. There is no page or word count limit, but please let us know what genre the work best falls into. We currently publish most manuscripts in a 6x9 softcover format, with a minimum 11pt font, so if you have unique formatting you may want to see what your manuscript will look like in this size. Please submit your work in a single document (any accepted manuscripts will need to be converted to .doc or.docx, but if you have unusual formatting submitting a PDF is best). We will close November of each year to catch up on our sub pile and prepare for the end of the fiscal year.
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