[Alternating Current Press]: Book-Length Fiction Manuscripts

This is a book-length open-reading period of Alternating Current Press. Please know what it is before submitting.

We’re seeking book-length manuscripts of literary fiction, short stories, plays, novels, long novellas, flash collections, or prose hybrid. We especially want to hear from marginalized and underrepresented authors, and we are an LGBTQUIA2+ safe-space.

Selected manuscripts receive book publication on Alternating Current Press, which includes distribution through Ingram, Asterism, and all major online retailers.

Submissions open: June 1, 2025

Submissions close: June 30, 2025 July 31, 2025 (extended because we were late getting the portal open due to maintenance)

Selections made: Within 4 months

Publication: 2026/2027

• Manuscripts may be in any genre or style. Choose the category of best fit.
• Manuscripts must be geared toward an adult readership. We are not interested in books for children.
• All work must be in English and must be the author’s own. Single work by multiple authors considered. We do not consider A.I.-generated work.
• These manuscripts are not read incognito. It doesn’t matter if your identifying information is (or isn’t) inside your submission file, as long as your Submittable contact information is correct.
• If you need to adjust a submission, please use the Request to Edit option through Submittable. Please don’t request to edit for minor flaws, however—all accepted work will go through an editing process and will have the chance to be updated before publication, and your work will not be disqualified for a missing comma.
• All authors must be at least 18 to submit.
• Simultaneous submissions allowed. Please withdraw your manuscript through Submittable if it is accepted elsewhere.
• Collections that contain previously published pieces are considered.
• Submit via Submittable only. We do not accept email submissions.
• There is a $7.99 fee for each manuscript submitted. You may submit as many manuscripts as you’d like, but each one must be submitted separately with a separate fee. The fee helps us with needed administration and book production costs, and we pay our readers for their time and effort, but it’s not meant to be too inhibitive. If you are unable to pay, please email us for an alternative submission method.
• Each paid submission comes with a digital copy of our latest fiction book, currently Winter Dance Party, a collection of Buddy Holly’s plane crash in flash, by Brett Biebel ($7.99 value).
• We will send a response to every submission within 4 months. Form response only, unless we are interested in publishing your book. We are regretfully unable to provide feedback. If you have not heard back after 4 months, please feel free to follow up (kindly), but more than likely, we’re just running behind, so thank you for your patience.
• We acknowledge that we are headquartered on what should be Arapaho land with a warehouse on a street that is instead named for a dead white male president who owned enslaved people and severed Native American Nations apart irrevocably and an office on a street named after the very People whose land was stolen. To honor the reparations that this entire country needs to make, Black writers and Native American Indigenous (United States and Canada) writers may submit appropriate manuscripts for free to this open-reading period (please note that if the portal is not open, then we have reached our free-submission monthly cap until the beginning of the next open-reading period).

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