Submission Guidelines

Small Beer Press

We do not accept unsolicited novel or short story collection manuscripts. Queries are welcome by mail. Email queries will be deleted.

Please do not submit your work to the editors’ personal email addresses, thank you.

We publish 6-10 books per year. Please be familiar with our books first to avoid wasting your time and ours, thank you. Please send queries with an SASE (with a Forever Stamp) by mail to:

Small Beer Press
150 Pleasant St., #306
Easthampton, MA 01027

Artist Guidelines

We use a few freelance artists per year. Artists can email us their websites or some selections, add us to their mailing list, or mail us (nonreturnable) pieces. We rarely reply to queries or pitches from artists, rather contacting artists as each book/project requires.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet

We do not accept email, multiple, or simultaneous submissions. Response time is about six months. We read everything, sometimes slow, sometimes fast. At the moment we are only reading paper submissions. If six months has passed and you contact us we will try and reply with our decision.

We recommend you read Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet before submitting. You can procure a copy from us or from assorted book shops.

We accept fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and black and white art*. The fiction we publish most of tends toward but is not limited to the speculative. This does not mean only quietly desperate stories. We will consider items that fall out with regular categories. We do not publish gore, sword and sorcery or pornography. We can discuss these terms if you like. There are places for them all, this is not one of them.

We recommend at least one rewrite for both our sanities.

Please follow standard ms format: 12pt Courier, double-spaced, numbered pages, &c. and an SASE (with a Forever Stamp) for our reply.

We buy first North American rights and occasionally reprints (which we solicit), nonexclusive electronic rights, and a nonexclusive anthology right. We do not pay much. Neither do we publish often. The paper edition of LCRW comes out twice yearly, the web version with a few bits from the paper and a few other things sometimes, well, you know. This website, although we sometimes publish on it, is not a paying market.

Thank you.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
150 Pleasant St., #306
Easthampton, MA 01027

* Original black and white art should not be sent unless it is disposable. Do not send color (or colour) art unless you are sending enough money with it for us to print a color cover. Jpeg files and anything readable by Photoshop should work. I use the word ’should’ advisably.