BrickHouse Books, Inc. (formerly New Poets Series, Inc.), is Maryland’s oldest continuously operating small press. Founded in 1970, with Clarinda Harriss as its editor since 1973, BrickHouse publishes works of 64-112 pages, whether poetry, fiction, drama, or artistic nonfiction. We look for excellent, fresh, nontrendy, literate, intelligent material in any form or style. Our usual press run is 500-1000 copies, of which the author receives 20, along with BHB’s sales and review support. Sale proceeds go back into the corporation to finance the next BrickHouse project.
Director:
Clarinda Harriss charriss@towson.edu
Special imprints under BrickHouse Books include Chestnut Hills Press, New Poets Series, Side Streets, and Stonewall.
DO NOT submit directly to the Chestnut Hills Press imprint.
CHP is reserved strictly for the top 10% of manuscripts rejected by BrickHouse. It is an author-financed division devoted to those who had to be turned down to due budget constraints. It is NOT a “vanity press.”
Do NOT submit directly to the SIDE STREETS imprint.
SIDE STREETS is an imprint reserved for submissions we are fascinated by but simply cannot figure out any way to categorize or even describe. Books published under this imprint may or may not be author-financed. Stay tuned: a new publication in this category is forthcoming.
To submit to BrickHouse Books directly, see the Submissions page.
If you have any questions, you can contact BrickHouse Books either through the blog or directly via email.
Job Openings
We have openings for Assistant Editors to work at home at their own pace reading submissions, writing detailed comments and suggestions, and doing PR work. There is no pay beyond a wealth of excellent resume material for future job searches.
Key requirements include the following:
1. Exceptional business/critique writing skills (including A+ grammar and spelling)
2. Tact in making suggestions and packaging bad news, like rejections of manuscripts
3. Meticulous attention to detail
4. Keen analytic ability
5. Experience with both reading and writing poetry, memoir, and/or short fiction
6. Ability to be self-starting–creating own deadlines and sticking to them
BrickHouse Books, Inc. editors will be dealing primarily with writers who are professional, so the correspondence has to be, essentially, perfect as far as writing goes.
Interested? Email Clarinda Harriss at charriss@towson.edu a current resume, cover letter explaining why you would like to do this work, and a sample of business or analytic writing. If you are a student, or have graduated within the past five years, please include your GPA and your average in your major in either your cover letter or on your resume; be prepared to send a transcript upon request.
