BrickHouse Books strongly encourages both electronic and hard copies. You are welcome to submit simultaneously to other publishers so long as you notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
Send To:
Clarinda Harriss, Director
306 Suffolk Rd.
Baltimore, MD 21218
or, charriss@towson.edu
Requirements:
- Complete manuscript, not a sample. BhB prefers manuscripts of 50 to 200 pages, with a max of 350. One page = 250 words.
- Reading fee: $10 for the first 50 pages, 50 cents for each additional page, with a maximum reading fee of $100. You will get a lot of detailed comments for your money!
- Self addressed, stamped envelope large enough to hold the manuscript so that it may be returned to you.
- Be prepared, upon request, to submit the manuscript in digital form as an email attachment.
- DO NOT use Certified Mail. Do NOT query by phone.
We advise authors to look at a copy of a previous BhB book to get a feel for what we do. Write to BhB at the above address and enclose a $5 check made out to BrickHouse Books, Inc., for a sample from our out-of-print stock. (Let us choose which book to send.) You can also read a few excerpts from our previously published books.
Email queries to the editor-in-chief are welcome: charriss@towson.edu. Note: It’s Harriss with 2 ss’s.
Submission requirements change if you are submitting to New Poet Series or the Stonewall chapbook competition. Please see those pages for more information.
If you are not accepted you will receive more than a simple rejection letter. We believe in giving more than a curt, and useless, “Try again.” We will give you a detailed, personal critique of your work describing what worked well and what could be improved in an effort to help you move closer to your goal of publication in the future.
Thank you!
