Black Pepper welcomes unsolicited manuscripts and requires that authors submit in December of each year. Manuscripts will not be considered for publication at other times. Authors will be notified of decisions the following year, usually by the end of September. At present, accepted works are generally in print within eighteen months.

Black Pepper reads only book length completed manuscripts. We do not accept submissions of sample chapters or synopses.

We require a hard copy of the manuscript. We do not consider faxed or emailed submissions, or disks or CDs sent without a hard copy.

Black Pepper receives many unsolicited manuscripts and can only return manuscripts, if not accepted for publication, where the submission includes a stamped self-addressed envelope large enough and with sufficient stamps.

Please do not send your manuscript by registered post. Our time is valuable and we do not have staff to pick up parcels.

If a manuscript is accepted by Black Pepper we will require it by email or on disk or CD, but there is no need to provide an electronic version when submitting.

Black Pepper presently publishes approximately 50% fiction, 50% poetry. We will also consider non-fiction submissions but require that authors of non-fiction contact Black Pepper prior to submitting.

Black Pepper looks for work of literary excellence. We suggest prospective authors read an existing Black Pepper title or titles and examine our website before submitting as the best guide to how we interpret literary excellence in work we have published.

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