Submission Guidelines

If you would like to submit a manuscript, please familiarize yourself with our list and the types of books we publish in order to determine whether yours would be appropriate. Please keep in mind as well that we publish primarily literary fiction, rarely poetry or non-fiction, and that we place a heavy emphasis upon fiction that belongs to the experimental tradition of Sterne, Joyce, Rabelais, Flann O'Brien, Beckett, Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes. If you would like to submit a critical or scholarly work for consideration, please see Dalkey Archive's Scholarly Series page, here.

Additional guidelines:

• A query letter with contact information should accompany your submission.
• In general, we respond within 4-6 months of receiving a submission. If you have not heard from us by the end of this period, you should contact us to check on the status of your manuscript. Contacting us earlier will not speed up the process.
• We prefer submissions to be sent by e-mail, directed to submissions@dalkeyarchive.com.
• If you can only send a hard copy, please mail it to:
  
  Dalkey Archive Press
  Attn: Acquisitions Editor
  1805 S. Wright Street
  MC-011
  Champaign, IL 61820
  
  Without an SASE we cannot respond to or return unsolicited submissions.