Poet Land Press is the non-profit imprint of the Poet Land Foundation. We publish original works of fiction and non-fiction, with a particular focus on voices from historically underrepresented communities. We strive to give space to LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and female voices.
why publish with us?
As a non-profit press, we focus on identifying and publishing new and unique voices that have been excluded from traditional publishing. Our goal is to publish without commercial concern.
As a Poet Land Press artist:
- You retain full rights to your work: We publish ‘by permission’.
- We keep our costs low and don’t profit from your work.
- Lower costs mean higher ‘royalties’ per volume sold.
- Transparency: We provide you with a complete breakdown of all costs in advance: no surprises.
submission guidelines
We publish original works of fiction and non-fiction. To be considered, please email Poet Land and include an inquiry letter in the body of your email that introduces your manuscript and that clearly states the title, approximate length (in total words or poems), genre, audience, and raison d’etre for your work.
- Include contact information with phone number and email.
Attach manuscripts as WORD documents (preferred) or PDFs. - For poetry: Please include at least five (5) poems that are reflective of the work.
- For literature (including novels, novellas, short-story collections): Please include at least five (5) pages that are representative of your work.
- For screenplays and plays: Please include an explanation of the work and a minimum of three (3) pages of scripted dialogue.
- For non-fiction works (criticism, essays, reviews, etc.): Please provide three (3) samples of the work and an explanation of the purpose of the work.
current titles
A fever dream of lust and regret told in impossibly terse poetry. Riley Manchester is a bold new voice who writes for a new fourth-wave of feminist poetry that is unapologetically human. Her never-wasted-word style, intersecting Melissa Broder and Adrienne Rich, transcends gender to reinvent the universal tale of the longing for love lost. Strikingly unique, this stream of conscious poetry is immediately relatable to anyone suffering alone after watching a lover walk out the door, trailing cigarette smoke and a confused lust versus love, searching for that one moment of break. It’s Me Again. Again. is beautifully conceived and brilliantly executed in a series of 70 minimalist poems that move the reader from first kiss to grief, infused with the inevitable madness of longing for a memory that may have never existed.
My Fragile Skin follows a lover’s emotional rollercoaster through the ecstasy of their own path to love and death, told hauntingly in the structured confines of haiku. The unnamed protagonist is almost a dispassionate critic and observer of their own life, narrating an inescapable flight between the intoxicating draw of romantic love and inexorable self-hatred. Brilliant in concept and deftly delivered, this collection grabs you by the heart and forces you through the poet’s agony at finding, losing, and mourning love. The path is not straight, and the thought rambles while the poetic narrative remains razor sharp. Watching the protagonist slowly and inevitably descend into the hell of their own making, leading to the horrific realization that balancing heartbreak and hope is untenable, you yearn for them to choose hope.
An enthralling epic in the genre of poetic storytelling, Dying Slowly of Happiness is a love letter to the romantic love and sexual desires that transcend gender, sex, and orientation. The poet invites you to follow them as they navigate the hope of a new lover, slowly crushed by addiction and self-destruction, each of teh four acts focusing on a singular moment in the lover’s plight to accept love and passion, while cascading in the chaos of their own decisions. The narrative is fluid, raw, and naked. The collection is a savagely honest view into the complex and unspoken themes of romantic relationships: infidelity, addiction, depression, sexuality, and the self-destruction driven by the idea of being unlovable. Soren’s poems are undeniably universal, forlorn, and ultimately devastating.