Submission Guidelines
- Using form below or email contact@memoirist.org upload ONE document, no
pictures, first 10 pages of a completed work, 12pt, 1.5 spaced, followed by synopsis of 2 pages
max. Name, title and contact email at top. Short introductory message preferred.
- Literary, i.e. stylistically polished
- Unpublished, although we may consider previously self-published.
- In non-fiction, give characters pseudonyms or shortened names.
- We will notify you within 3 months if we wish to proceed. If you don't hear from us, please
presume it is a no. We only take on one or two projects per year.
- Memoir (No sentimental or religious) and narrative non-fiction 50K-90K words.
- Literary fiction 70K-100K words. No short story anthologies.
- No pure genre fiction but manuscripts with elements thereof considered.
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