Saint Julian Press ~ Submissions ~ Publication & Marketing
2025 — Will be a Sabbatical Year for Saint Julian Press.
We will resume submissions in early 2026.
We will resume submissions in early 2026.
Saint Julian Press, an independent literary press and educational organization, embraces a vision to create a local and worldwide community by engaging in an artistic dialogue that promotes world peace through cross-cultural and interfaith conversations. We operate as a not-for-profit organization that reinvests any annual earnings back into the press. In our mission as a new creative imprint, we hope to identify, encourage, nurture, and share transformative art and literature of both past and living masters. While giving emerging artists, poets, and writers a place they may come home to and share their work, celebrating the enduring mystery within creation that calls us into relationships with one another.
Saint Julian Press has one annual reading period, usually from the beginning of January through mid to the end of February each year. In the past, we have accepted some submissions during the year, but it has become too hard to do this and publish new books. Please look here for future announcements on when submissions open again. It is not unusual for us to receive recommendations from other poets/writers and professors working in the academic world. In 2025, Saint Julian Press will take a sabbatical and will not be accepting any new submissions. We will resume submission in early 2026.
Saint Julian Press follows an environmentally friendly Print-on-Demand (POD) publishing model that works intimately with each artist and author. With a few rare exceptions, Ingram Content Group, acts as the global marketing and distribution partner for all the books published by Saint Julian Press, with nearly sixty titles now in print.
If asked, we will waive reading fees for graduate students, emerging artists, and academics who need financial assistance. Due to considerable ongoing business and publication expenses, unless reading a reading fee is waived, Saint Julian Press charges a non-refundable $50 reading and editorial review fee for full-length collections (55-120 pages). Any manuscripts or books over 120 pages should be submitted for an $80 fee. Please note that we will waive a reading fee when asked and when financial assistance may be required. If this is the case, you need only ask.
The fees are in place to help us discern the sincerity of any submission; we are looking for quality submissions, not quantity. After an initial acknowledgment, please expect an eight to twelve-week response time overall. It simply takes time to hold several conversations in place, especially when new books are in the works. As a not-for-profit readings fees and contribution also help us to meet our annual operating expenses.
Publishing any book is art in the highest sense of the word. This is a creative partnership between the editor/editors and the artists, poets, and writers who sincerely wish to work with Saint Julian Press. Saint Julian Press book publications involve a highly selective review and editorial team process, where we work closely with authors whose books, we treasure and have accepted for publication. In the end, this is an artistic and literary endeavor, one we enter together for the pure pleasure of great art and writing that will help transform our world.
The publication of any book involves an editor who works hand in hand from beginning to end on the acceptance, preparation, and marketing of a new book. It includes reviewing and editing a book's interior content, internal layout, and cover design before publication.
Please send your reading fee via the PayPal Button right below or by check, if you wish, to the address at the end of this page. We will also accept Zelle and Venmo; contact us if that is how you wish to submit a reading fee or make a contribution to support the press. If you are an undergraduate or graduate student, emerging author, or academic who would like to ask for a waiver on these fees, please email the address at the bottom of this page.
Saint Julian Press has one annual reading period, usually from the beginning of January through mid to the end of February each year. In the past, we have accepted some submissions during the year, but it has become too hard to do this and publish new books. Please look here for future announcements on when submissions open again. It is not unusual for us to receive recommendations from other poets/writers and professors working in the academic world. In 2025, Saint Julian Press will take a sabbatical and will not be accepting any new submissions. We will resume submission in early 2026.
Saint Julian Press follows an environmentally friendly Print-on-Demand (POD) publishing model that works intimately with each artist and author. With a few rare exceptions, Ingram Content Group, acts as the global marketing and distribution partner for all the books published by Saint Julian Press, with nearly sixty titles now in print.
If asked, we will waive reading fees for graduate students, emerging artists, and academics who need financial assistance. Due to considerable ongoing business and publication expenses, unless reading a reading fee is waived, Saint Julian Press charges a non-refundable $50 reading and editorial review fee for full-length collections (55-120 pages). Any manuscripts or books over 120 pages should be submitted for an $80 fee. Please note that we will waive a reading fee when asked and when financial assistance may be required. If this is the case, you need only ask.
The fees are in place to help us discern the sincerity of any submission; we are looking for quality submissions, not quantity. After an initial acknowledgment, please expect an eight to twelve-week response time overall. It simply takes time to hold several conversations in place, especially when new books are in the works. As a not-for-profit readings fees and contribution also help us to meet our annual operating expenses.
Publishing any book is art in the highest sense of the word. This is a creative partnership between the editor/editors and the artists, poets, and writers who sincerely wish to work with Saint Julian Press. Saint Julian Press book publications involve a highly selective review and editorial team process, where we work closely with authors whose books, we treasure and have accepted for publication. In the end, this is an artistic and literary endeavor, one we enter together for the pure pleasure of great art and writing that will help transform our world.
The publication of any book involves an editor who works hand in hand from beginning to end on the acceptance, preparation, and marketing of a new book. It includes reviewing and editing a book's interior content, internal layout, and cover design before publication.
Please send your reading fee via the PayPal Button right below or by check, if you wish, to the address at the end of this page. We will also accept Zelle and Venmo; contact us if that is how you wish to submit a reading fee or make a contribution to support the press. If you are an undergraduate or graduate student, emerging author, or academic who would like to ask for a waiver on these fees, please email the address at the bottom of this page.
Please submit any book submissions for consideration via the email link below. We are looking for poetry that is well written, engaging, has great literary style and potential, values all human diversity, and is a reflection of our core mission and vision. Please go to the Saint Julian Press homepage to learn more if you have not already. Order a book or two to understand the diversity of those authors/books we've published.
As we learn about new and emerging writers/poets from our creative partners, they may be invited to make a book submission or as a guest author on the website. We try our best to leave the process open and flexible. On an annual basis we select and work closely with new emerging writers/poets to help sponsor and underwrite the cost to publish their first book of poetry or prose.
SUBMITTING PROCESS
AUTHOR CHECKLIST
Once a Manuscript is Accepted
As we learn about new and emerging writers/poets from our creative partners, they may be invited to make a book submission or as a guest author on the website. We try our best to leave the process open and flexible. On an annual basis we select and work closely with new emerging writers/poets to help sponsor and underwrite the cost to publish their first book of poetry or prose.
SUBMITTING PROCESS
- Look at what Saint Julian Press has already published, order a book.
- Read the author checklist before submitting.
- Electronic submissions via email are a requirement with today's technology.
- We will acknowledge receipt of your submission within 2-3 weeks.
- We will contact you regarding the status of your submission within ten to twelve weeks.
AUTHOR CHECKLIST
- Send an Email with author’s full name in subject line, followed by manuscript title.
- Confirmation number of PayPal reading/entry fee transaction.
- Include a cover letter with author’s full contact information.
- Include a biography of about 250 words or less, less is more.
- Include prior publication credits for poems/stories from the manuscript.
- Attached manuscript file in a PDF, Word .doc or .docx, or .txt format.
Once a Manuscript is Accepted
- A contract will be sent to the author via eMail or Regular Mail if preferred.
- Once a contract is signed, publication dates will be determined individually by author and book.
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This arrangement does help to sustain the press and allow us to publish more books by more authors.
As an Amazon Associate — Saint Julian Press, Inc. may earn funds from any qualifying purchases.
This arrangement does help to sustain the press and allow us to publish more books by more authors.