Submissions
Prologue
Red Rook Press is an up-and-coming, destined for greatness, student-led press that wants to celebrate the work of undergraduate writers. Our team of editors, website designers, media specialists, and acquisitionists, are taking time away from their fifth coffee of the day to facilitate a publication for people just like us (except maybe a little less caffeinated). So double knot your Doc Martens, pull up a chair, and craft something you want us to share.
Content
We are happily celebrating our latest releases and want to share even more books with the world. We are merely a vessel of your work and have no intention of holding back the creativity of our writers, so do as you please, give us a piece of yourself that you want to be heard. We publish both an online and print issue of the chosen works and are elated to get your work to as many people as possible.
Fiction/Poetry/CNF
Guidelines
Simultaneous Submissions: Perfectly fine – just make sure you let us know if your work is selected elsewhere
Payment: We pay our writers in contributor copies
- Please submit all manuscripts as Word Documents through our Submittable page. You will be prompted to create a free user account that will allow you to submit your manuscript and monitor its status.
- Please submit manuscripts as a single file and include a title page (without a name). We ask that your name be removed from the manuscript for blind reading (and only submit once per reading period).
- To be eligible for publication, you must be enrolled as a graduate or undergraduate student (at any institution) at the time of submission.
- Prose manuscripts should be 20,000-70,000 words.
- Poetry manuscripts should be between 50-125 pages.
- Submissions are open from May 15th – September 15th, 2026
Children’s Books
Red Rook Press is currently accepting submissions of picture book manuscripts, both illustrated and unillustrated. If your manuscript includes illustrations, please indicate whether you would be open to working with a staff illustrator. Red Rook’s design team is excited to work with any writer whose manuscript comes our way unillustrated—we are not actively looking for illustrators at this time.
We are most excited to read picture books that tell original stories with unique characters. We are eager to read your fantasy, sci-fi, or coming-of-age story for readers between the ages of 5 and 8 who are beginning to explore getting lost in stories on their own, or who love having a long story read to them before bedtime.
We are committed to publishing a wide array of voices. We strongly encourage creators with underrepresented and unique perspectives to submit their manuscript for consideration.
At Red Rook, we work with writers and creators who are enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students anywhere in the world at the time of submission. Please let us know where you go to school when you submit your work!
Red Rook Press requires all writers to disclose any AI usage at the time of submission.
To be considered for publication, picture books must be a minimum of 32 pages in length and fall somewhere within the range of 800 and 3,500 words.
Submissions are open until April 15th, 2026.