White Violet Press
White Violet Press showcases the literary work of accomplished formalist poets. Please submit 20 to 100 pages of formal poetry. Do not submit work that includes drawings or pictures.
The majority of poems in White Violet submissions must be formal poems. Some free verse poems may be included. If your collection has more than a couple free-verse poems, please submit it to Alabaster Leaves or Aldrich Press instead.
How to Submit
First, carefully review our general guidelines for manuscript submissions.
By sending work to us, you are agreeing to abide by our guidelines, including those regarding quoted material, AI use, and sensitive content.
Submissions should be emailed to kelsay.karen@gmail.com with WHITE VIOLET MANUSCRIPT as the subject line. Messages with other subject lines may be marked as spam by our email filters. If submissions with other subject lines do get through, they will not receive priority in our queue, since it may take us longer to find them in our inbox.
Include a brief cover letter in the body of your email with your name, address, phone number, and PayPal receipt number. If you have published with us before or know someone who has, we encourage you to mention that.
Attach two Word documents (not PDFs) to your email: your manuscript and your marketing plan.
What to Include in a Marketing Plan
Your marketing plan does not need to be in any particular format and need not include a sales quota. We are looking for a realistic description of how you plan to engage with marketing your book before and after publication.
In your marketing plan, we encourage you to mention specific venues where you intend to give readings, organizations you attend where you might promote your work, social media accounts you have and that you intend to use to engage with readers, and so on.
If you previously published a poetry collection, please mention how you engaged with marketing it and what (if anything) you plan to do differently with marketing your next collection.
How to Format Your Manuscript
Include these elements, in this order:
- The title
- Your name
- A dedication (optional)
- Acknowledgments
- Your poetry
- Your biography
Send these in one Word document attached to your email. Do not send a PDF.
Use 12-point Times New Roman font. Do not insert page numbers or use all capital letters in your titles and headings. Use page breaks between your poems. Ensure your manuscript has been proofread for mistakes and typos.
Reading Fee
The reading fee is $20.00 per White Violet submission. This allows us to focus our resources on a quick response to manuscript submissions. We aim to respond within two weeks.
Use the link below to submit your fee. You must include your PayPal receipt number in your submissions email.