Doubleback Books is open for submissions for previously published prose and poetry books. All eligible previously published authors are welcome to submit their manuscripts during our reading period from September 15–October 15, 2026.
If you are the author of a book that has gone out of print since 2000 because the press closed, we want to read it. Authors of works that have gone out of print due to the closure of the original press may submit full-length or short books, including novels, creative nonfiction, novellas, chapbooks, short story collections, poetry collections, and essay collections. Editors may also submit out-of-print manuscripts their presses published before closing.
Submit your manuscript(s) in a .PDF or .DOC format to doublebackbooks2014@gmail.com and include the name of the manuscript’s original publisher, the name and contact information of the publisher’s former editor-in-chief (if available), and a brief cover letter in the body of the email telling us about your work and yourself, noting the genre of the manuscript.
Accepted manuscripts will be turned into downloadable ebooks available for free. We do not republish translated work or previously self-published work. We occasionally open briefly at other times for reading periods; please follow Sundress for more information. Please view previously published titles at on our website.
Doubleback Books is an imprint of Sundress Publications. More information can be found here.
