Submissions

Area of Interest

Vagabond Voices is always pleased to receive submissions, but if they are outside our area of interest, there is little point in sending them in. We are a reasonably eclectic organisation and these are the kinds of books we publish:

1) Literary novels or, in case that sounds too exclusive, novels that aren't primarily genre. We're unlikely to be interested in, say, crime novels, which would be better served by a larger organisation with greater marketing muscle. However, an unusual novel with little hope of acceptance by the larger publishers but an element of crime could be of interest to us. Novels are our main area of interest.

2) Short stories.

3) Poetry.

4) Polemical works mainly political and social themes.

5) Some academic works concerning the humanities, particularly when they challenge current academic certainties and having difficulty in getting published.

6) Autobiographies, only if written by intellectuals and people working the arts and concentrate mainly on the development of the author's ideas and professional work.

7) Translated works, but these are generally not the result of unsolicited submissions, and it is probably best to ignore this category here.

How to submit

Please send us an e-mail (sales@vagabondvoices.co.uk) with a covering letter, a synopsis and a short sample (about 5,000 words). We would prefer you not to send in paper submissions at this stage.

What you can expect

Vagabond Voices is a very small organisation with limited resources. Please don't contact us about your submission for at least six months, as it takes us time to work through the submissions. By all means, submit your work to other publishers at the same time. We try to respond as soon as we can, but we are obviously busy on current publications and their deadlines.