Guernica Editions wants your manuscripts, plus Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction is open for entries

Guernica Editions

1241 Marble Rock Road
Gananoque, ON, K7G 2V4

https://guernicaeditions.com/

Guernica Editions was founded in Montreal in 1978 by writer and filmmaker Antonio D'Alfonso with the expressed mission to publish books that address social justice issues, discover and cultivate our innate humanity, and transcend individual cultures and nations.

n 1991, Guernica’s head office was moved to Ontario where. In 2010, writers Michael Mirolla and Connie Guzzo-McParland took over the reins from Antonio D’Alfonso, maintaining the same original commitment of tearing down borders and creating ties between cultural and social groups. Since its founding, Guernica Editions has published over six hundred titles. 

Guernica seeks out books that are fresh, terse, edgy and self-aware; that dare to cross boundaries and that speak to readers on a universal level.

Imprints:

Guernica Editions

This imprint features the publisher’s Essential Prose, Poetry, Essays, Writers Series, Anthologies and First Poets Series. Novellas.

Submission period: February 1st - February 28th

MiroLand

Created in 2013 under the management of Michael Mirolla and Connie Guzzo-McParland, MiroLand is an imprint for more commercial projects. Since its inception, MiroLand has published genre literature, including mysteries, thrillers, speculative fiction and fantasy, cookbooks, self-help and how-to’s, memoirs, political nonfiction, YA and children’s books, self-help books and more.

Submission period: February 1st - February 28th

Note: If you’re interested in writing for children or for young adults, sign up for our upcoming   “Writing for Children and for Young Adults” workshop, where we’ll have an industry insider (either an editor from a children’s publisher or a literary agent specializing in kid lit) as the guest speaker. Details here.

Guernica World Editions

Guernica World Editions is for authors outside of Canada’s borders. To date, Guernica has published authors from the US, the UK, France, Israel, Dubai, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, and many other countries across the world. 

Submission period: Year-round

Submitting:

Guernica will only accept manuscript queries by email. Please send manuscripts as Word documents (.doc or .docx) to michaelmirolla@guernicaeditions.com

The manuscripts should be single-spaced, in a 12-point easy-to-read type. If at all possible, please give the manuscripts a name that includes the title and the author: The Dubliners, James Joyce.

Please note: Guernica is not accepting nonfiction submissions for the 2026 submissions period. 

1366 Books

1366Books is home to works of accessible yet innovative and experimental fiction – works that challenge the conventions of narrative and form, and perhaps even challenge the conventions of the sentence or the page itself. 1366Books seeks to explode readers’ expectations and explore the possibilities of the novel and the short story.

They welcome manuscripts that meet the above criteria by all Canadian writers, including writers of colour, Indigenous writers, LGBTQ+ writers, writers with disabilities, and others who identify as part of marginalized groups.

Manuscripts should be about 20,000 to 40,000 words.

Submission period: Year-round

Please email 1366 editor Stuart Ross at: 1366Books@gmail.com 

Include a brief cover letter and a PDF of your manuscript.

Note: If you’re interested in meeting an agent and in getting published, join us for a “How to Get Published” workshop where we’ll have a literary agent as a guest speaker. Details here.  

The Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction

Now open for submissions!

The Guernica Prize recognizes the best literary fiction novel that pushes boundaries and is cutting edge. Each entry must be an unpublished novel of at least 40,000 words. A $50 entry fee (online submission through Submittable only) must accompany each submission. Authors may submit more than one manuscript but each manuscript must include a separate entry fee. The name of the author or anything identifying the author should appear nowhere in the manuscript.

The prize consists of $1,000 and a publication contract with Guernica Editions. The winning author agrees to publication with Guernica. Please name your file your manuscript title or the first three words of the manuscript title if the title is longer than three words.

The Guernica Prize is open to Canadian citizens and/or residents of Canada only. Please note that submissions to the prize are final. If a submission is retracted, there is no refund of the entry fee.

Click here to see a list of previous winners. 

Submission period: January 1^st – April 30th 

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