From June 1 to June 30, we’ll be open to submissions for hybrid memoir, as well as books on social justice issues in North Carolina. Work received outside of the reading period will not be considered. You do not have to be a North Carolina resident to submit.
Send completed manuscripts only. There is no submission fee. We’re especially interested in work by those with rich, complicated, myriad identities. As always, check out our books to see what we like. Complete our submission form here. Please use your cover letter to introduce yourself.
Please submit only one manuscript. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please let us know if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Direct any questions to our email: scuppernongeditions@gmail.com, but do not submit by email.
In exceptional circumstances, Scuppernong Editions is willing to publish manuscripts that incorporate AI-derived content in insightful or innovative ways, but authors must indicate how and where such content has been used. If your work incorporates AI-derived content, please include a brief descriptive note to this effect as part of your cover letter.
Manuscripts will be read by our readers and final decisions will be made by the editorial team. We expect to complete selection by January 30, 2025.
We pay our authors a modest advance on royalties, author copies, and 15% royalties on books sold.
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Scuppernong Editions is a North Carolina based small press. In 2022, the press became a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. As a non-profit press, we can take risks on books with a more non-commercial approach.
As a small press, we have two areas of interest for open submission:
Hybrid-memoir
Hybrid with anything. It could be theater, art, poetry. Who knows? We want something that reaches past the personal to the contradictory, the implausible, the unreconcilable. Take a look at Laurie Stone’s Everything is Personal: Notes on Now, or Stephanie Grant’s Disgust: A Memoir.
Social justice, political change, and environmental issues, in North Carolina
This is the only state-specific area of our interest. These will be well-reported books on issues important to those living in the state. We’ve published a collection of essays by NC Death Row inmates (Inside: Voices from Death Row), and another on the death of Marcus Smith at the hands of Greensboro police (I Ain’t Resisting: The City of Greensboro and The Killing of Marcus Smith).
