One book publisher and two literary journals seeking fiction, poetry, and nonfiction

Gordon Hill Press & The Porcupine’s Quill

Guelph, Ontario

https://ghp-pql.com/

Gordon Hill Press & The Porcupine’s Quill seek submissions of poetry, innovative fiction, lyric nonfiction, and literary criticism.

• The Porcupine's Quill – Full-length titles of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and criticism.
• Gordon Hill Press – Full-length titles by authors with invisible disability.
• The Sheffield Chapbooks – Chapbook-length titles of poetry by New Brunswick authors.
• mad / sick / different – Chapbook-length titles of poetry by disabled authors
• Scrummage Chapbooks – Chapbook-length titles for anything else you can imagine.

They do not publish children's books, YA titles, self-help books, genre fiction, travel writing, or previously published manuscripts. 

Please send submissions to submit@gordonhillpress.com

Include your full name and manuscript title in the subject heading. Include a cover letter with a brief description of your completed manuscript, your bio statement, and your publication history. If submitting poetry, poetry criticism, or chapbooks, provide your whole manuscript. If submitting fiction, provide an excerpt of up to 25 pages. All submissions should be sent in .doc or .docx format.

Full submission guidelines here.

If submitting nonfiction, you should do so through …

The Molly Peacock Nonfiction Prize

Deadline June 30, 2027

Molly Peacock is a distinguished Canadian-American author who has championed creativity in her two biographies The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 (book of the year in The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, The Economist, The Irish Times, The London Evening Standard, and The Sunday Telegraph); and Flower Diary: Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door, an IPPY Award Winner. 

Her essays have appeared in The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, House & Garden, and Oprah Magazine. Her memoir, Paradise Piece by Piece, helped spark the contemporary childfree movement. Author of eight volumes of poetry, including The Widow’s Crayon Box, Peacock’s work is widely anthologized, notably in A Century of Poetry from The New Yorker.

Gordon Hill Press and The Porcupine's Quill are pleased to honour her legacy through the Molly Peacock Nonfiction Prize, which is open to unpublished creative nonfiction manuscripts by Canadian authors. To submit, purchase the $50 Molly Peacock Nonfiction Prize Submission Fee here.

Then submit your completed manuscript along with a bio statement and your publication history to submit@gordonhillpress.com

Include your full name and manuscript title in the subject heading. All submissions should be sent in .doc or .docx format.

The winner will receive $1000 award upon acceptance of an offer of publication. Additional submissions may also receive an offer of publication.

Submissions are open until June 30. The winner will be announced in September.

 

Hello, Brian. 

I am the editor of a new Canadian literary journal devoted to blending flash fiction and art. 

Just read your blog post about “32 Canadian literary journals that pay” (here) and would love to have NUNUM included on your next post of a similar nature.

Details about NUNUM 

- website: https://www.nunum.ca

- submission period: year-round – submission guidelines here.

- issues per year: quarterly online and annual print anthology

- looking for flash fiction of up to 500 words and visual art

- submission fee: $3 (for either three flash fiction pieces or three visual art pieces)

- payment: $20 per accepted piece

Also, we publish two anthologies annually, one Done in a Hundred, which focuses on work of a hundred words or less (fourth addition coming out in Dec 26) and Opolis, which focuses on science fiction of a thousand words or less (third addition coming out in July 26). The anthologies have no submission fee.

Have a nice summer,

Geoffrey Miller 

Editor 

NUNUM

 

Yolk

A Montreal-based literary journal, Yolk publishes fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual arts in our print (Canadian citizens and residents of Canada) and digital (Canadian + international) publications. Their mandate is to publish fine work by established and emerging artists. 

They’ll open for submissions for the fall print issue on July 1.

Pays $100 honorarium for their digital publication and $30 per page to a maximum of $200 for print. Pays $200 for cover art.

Full submission guidelines here. 

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