Our list for 2020 is now full.
​We'll be reading submissions for 2021 from May to August 2020. 
We have an Author/Publisher agreement which we and the Author sign when we accept a manuscript for publication. We expect to publish a book within four months of the agreement's being signed. If you would like a sample copy of the contract emailed to you, please email us and request one.

There are also costs to the author associated with our publishing their books. These are updated in April and September. Poetry is best sold by the poets themselves and from April 2020 we expect authors to take at least 60 of the copies we print, for their own disposal at readings etc., at 50% of RRP. There is a discount for 100 books taken by the author from the first run. We set up and maintain a page for each author's books published by us. Sales from our page through Paypal earn 10% of RRP and sales through Amazon earn 5% (paid to the author in April.)

As publishers, we offer as much support for poets as we can: we advertise their books in our newsletters and on Twitter and Facebook, retweet and share their posts, and hold events at the Poetry Café, London, to showcase them, where the authors can sell their own copies at no commission. We attend Poetry Book Fairs, including the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair in the Conway Hall, London, which in 2020 is on February 22nd.
Submitting a manuscript: what you should do:
  • Make a continuous Word file of your poems, in the order that you want them to appear, with a list of them on the front page. There's no need to number the pages or make a Contents page. The font should be 11 or 12 point Times New Roman or Calibri. We will adjust fonts, margins etc. as necessary, when we lay out the book. The poems should be finished.We do not expect any adjustments to the content of the poems to be requested or made after you have sent us the manuscript, other than punctuation where necessary.

  • Separate the poems with a page break at the end of each one (NOT a 'section break', please.)
  • Add: a title page (you can add your name, address and other contact details for our information here); a dedication if you want one; acknowledgements of books or magazines where your poems have previously appeared; a foreword, introduction or epigraph if you want one. (If you haven't decided about these things, they can be added later if you want them.) We will also need a photograph of you for the back cover of your book.
  • Check the spelling and punctuation carefully.
  • We recommend making a conscious decision about using uppercase letters at the beginning of lines, and overriding Word's default setting unless you definitely want a capital letter at the beginning of each line. 
  • Send your file to us at dempseyandwindle@gmail.com, as an attachment in an email headed with your name and SUBMISSION. In the body of the email, give your name, address and phone number, and a short writing bio.
  • We do not expect any adjustments to the content of the poems to be requested or made after you have sent us the manuscript, other than punctuation where necessary.
If we are reading manuscripts, you will hear from us within about ten days, whether or not we can publish your book.
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