Our General Submission Guidelines
Thank you for considering Unbound Edition Press and our literary journal, Revel, as a potential publishing home for your work. We are honored to read what you have written and decided to share with us.
We are writers too and understand the submission process can take time and be frustrating. You will get a response from us within four to six months. We happily accept simultaneous submissions, but do ask that you kindly inform us right away if your work has been acquired by another publisher.
The press is small and focused. We can publish only a few titles each year, so they must be remarkable. Each title is a personal choice, commitment, and investment for us, and our mission guides the decisions we make. We are here to respect and elevate emerging, overlooked, and marginalized authors, and to make meaningful contributions to the literary arts by publishing their work. We aim to identify, develop, and defend writers of thoughtfully challenging work which might not find a home with mainstream publishers.
Writers who examine and illuminate the difficult truths of the contemporary human condition stand out for us. Original voices, conveyed through an impressive command of craft, language, and form, capture our attention always.
Light verse or inspirational musings will not find a home with us. Any work that advances hate speech or discrimination of any kind, in any form, will be dismissed as garbage.
When submitting, please include a brief cover letter with a concise description of your work, and note any prior publications, awards or recognition. It's just fine if you are an aspiring author and appreciation has yet to come your way. Your name and contact information should be part of your cover letter, but not included on the work itself.
Submittable is the only way we receive submissions. We cannot accept any submission by email or post. These will be unopened and unread. Please follow all formatting guidance in the Submittable form.
Thank you for sharing your work with us. We look forward to reading it.
Revel, the award-winning journal from Unbound Edition Press, currently seeks works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from writers who have yet to be published in a national literary magazine. We want to help elevate remarkable voices that have yet to find their literary audience.
Winner of the 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award, Revel publishes many literary luminaries, but we are equally committed to new voices. If you have not yet been published (campus magazines excluded) here’s your opportunity. We look forward to reading your work.
Please submit up to five poems or twenty-five pages of prose. Hybrid or cross-genre experiments are welcome.
Work from BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other underrepresented communities and voices is especially welcome.