Open Call

The open call reading period is on hiatus for 2021; please check in next year for more information. 

Autumn House accepts full-length manuscripts in all genres for publication consideration from September 1 to November 1 (or we reach 300 manuscripts). If you have any questions, please check our FAQs page!

• There is a $3 fee to submit
• Poetry manuscripts should be between 50-80 pages
• Prose manuscripts should be between 100-250 pages
• We will respond to all submissions within 3-5 months
• We do not accept paper submissions
• Include a brief bio in the “cover letter” section of Submittable
• Feel free to include a table of contents
• Simultaneous submissions permitted