Submissions
We are currently in our contest period, during which time we are not accepting unsolicited manuscripts.
This year's contest will feature fiction/memoirist author Deb Olin Unferth as our final judge. The postmark deadline is February 18, 2012. We apologize for confusions regarding varying advertisements of this date. Full guidelines and links to the book pages of recent winners appears on the contest page.
Our next open query period is expected to be in August/September of 2012. We apologize for the limited times allotted for reading unsolicited work, but Starcherone Books only publishes an average of 4 books/year, and we are currently filled up with accepted projects through 2013. In addition, our editors are all volunteers, and several are authors themselves. We are taking a little time off to rest and to pursue personal projects.
In October of each year, we begin our ANNUAL CONTEST. This is a blind-judged competition, and it has been won by debut authors every year that we have offered the prize. Among the winners have been Zachary Mason, whose The Lost Books of the Odyssey was later reprinted by Farrar Straus & Giroux and became a New York Times Top 100 Book of the Year in 2010, and Alissa Nutting, who recently had a story from her winning collection, Unclean Jobs for Women & Girls, selected for the next Norton Introduction to Literature.
No previous publication record is required for authors wishing to enter the contest, but neither is the contest limited to debut authors.
Submissions of unsolicited manuscripts prior to our next open query period will risk being returned or discarded, unread.