Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is accepting submissions March 1 - April 30, 2023.
Drue Heinz Literature Prize is accepting submissions May 1 - June 30, 2023.
Pitt Poetry Series is accepting submissions August 1 - September 30, 2023.
Cuban Studies accepting applications year round.
Cuban Studies Submission Guidelines
The University of Pittsburgh Press welcomes submissions to Cuban Studies. Manuscripts in English and Spanish may be submitted. Maximum length is 10,000 words, including notes and illustrations. Please include an abstract of the article both in English and Spanish of no more than 200 words. Also include a short biographical paragraph of no more than 3 sentences. We prefer Chicago style (17th edition), but MLA style is also acceptable. Cuban Studies takes no responsibility for views or information presented in signed articles.
Dossiers should be comprised of an introductory essay and 3 to 6 essays. Each essay should have a maximum length of 9,000 words, including notes and illustrations. The articles of the dossiers should read as a whole and avoid repetition and overlaps between them. Dossiers should have a designated organizer who will be the mediator between Cuban Studies and the authors of the dossier. We prefer Chicago style (17th edition), but MLA style is also acceptable. All articles in the dossier should use one of these styles consistently. Please include an abstract of the dossier of no more than 200 words, both in English and Spanish. Also include a short biographical paragraph of no more than 3 sentences of the participating authors.
For additional editorial inquiries, contact us by email at cubanstudies@upress.pitt.edu.
The Pitt Poetry Series annually publishes at least four books by poets who previously have published full-length collections of poetry; we define “full-length” as a book of 48 or more pages. Poets who have not published a book before, or who have published chapbooks or limited editions of less than 500 copies, should refer to the rules for our first-book competition, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.
Manuscripts from previously published poets should be sent during August and September only. Manuscripts can be sent in any readable format. Final decisions are usually made late spring or before.
Manuscripts submitted to the contest will not be returned. Please keep a copy of the manuscript.
We pride ourselves on the eclectic nature of our list. We are not tied to any particular style or school of writing, but we do demand that any book we publish be of exceptional merit.
Each manuscript is read with the care it deserves, but the large number of manuscripts means that we are unable to provide critiques or enter into correspondence of any sort with writers other than those whose manuscripts are accepted for publication.