EastOver Press
EastOver Press publishes collections of short stories, essays of many formats, and poetry. We welcome prose and poetry manuscript submissions. We read and respond to prose manuscripts on a rolling basis and to poetry manuscripts during specific submission windows. Further information is on the Submittable page. We are excited to feature established writers, but we are just as excited to discover emerging writers.
Cutleaf
We also welcome unsolicited work for Cutleaf in original prose (both creative nonfiction and fiction) and poetry.
Essays and Nonfiction
Cutleaf is interested in essays of all shapes and sizes, in both standard and hybrid forms. We welcome new approaches such as speculative nonfiction, essays based in metaphor, essays in verse, and other re-imaginings of the format. We welcome work about literature, travel, music, visual art, and film in multiple formats. We are less interested in journalistic approaches than in work that shows the larger and smaller truths about being human.
We will consider nonfiction of many lengths. We are generally interested in work of less than 6000 words. Longer work must be exceptionally compelling, and we may publish longer works in installments.
Submissions should be double-spaced and use a standard 12-point font, such as Times New Roman. Please upload your entire submission as one MS Word file. Be sure to include your name and contact information on the first page.
Cutleaf will pay for published nonfiction on a sliding scale from $100 to $750.
Fiction
We will consider fiction of many lengths, though we are generally interested in work less than 6000 words. Longer work must be exceptionally compelling, and we may publish longer works in installments. Short excerpts from longer works are more likely to be accepted when they stand alone as a discrete work.
We are also interested in flash fiction with a limit of 1000 words. We will read one long piece or up to three short pieces at a time per author.
Prose submissions should be double-spaced and use a standard 12-point font, such as Times New Roman. Please upload your entire submission as one MS Word file. Be sure to include your name and contact information on the first page.
Cutleaf will pay for published fiction on a sliding scale from $100 to $750.
Poetry
Cutleaf is interested in poetry of many styles and formats. We will read up to six poems at a time per author.
Poems should be single-spaced and use a standard 12-point font, such as Times New Roman. Please upload your entire submission as one MS Word file. Be sure to include your name and contact information on the first page.
Cutleaf will pay for poetry on a sliding scale from $50 to $200.
Editorial Approach
We are particularly interested in work by writers historically underrepresented in literary publishing: BIPOC, people with disabilities, gender-nonconforming people, LGBTQIA+, women, and others.
We’re happy to consider simultaneous submissions with the understanding that you will quickly inform us if a piece is accepted by another publication. If only part of your submission has been accepted, please make a note in Submittable.
We strive to respond to every submission in a timely manner, hopefully within four months and often much sooner. If you have not heard from us within four months, feel free to send us a query via email. Please do not send additional submissions until you’ve heard back from us.
Cutleaf acquires non-exclusive first serial rights throughout North America to publish work in all editions of Cutleaf, wherever published and distributed, including hard copy and electronic formats. Writers receive credit of authorship in accordance with customary practice of Cutleaf. We reserve the right to make any work that we’ve published available in the Cutleaf archives on our website. Should a piece first published in Cutleaf be reprinted in another work, we request the later publication include an acknowledgment of Cutleaf.
Work published online in Cutleaf may be chosen for inclusion in the Cutleaf Anthology published at the end of every calendar year.
Contact Us
If you’d like to get in touch unrelated to submissions, send us an email message and we’ll get back to you as quickly as we can.
