PLEASE NOTE: MINNEOPA VALLEY PRESS
WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING
ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPTS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Submissions

Minneopa Valley Press publishes literary fiction, including novel and short story collections, and literary nonfiction, including memoir and personal essays. Our guiding principals while reviewing manuscripts are craft, imagination, idea, and theme, with a focus on rural stories and issues, and representation, with an effort to develop a larger pool of diverse, rural writers.

Fiction
Minneopa Valley Press is open to reviewing completed, or nearly completed, fiction manuscripts. Please submit up to thirty pages. We are not currently accepting manuscripts for children’s books, middle-grade books, or young adult books.

Nonfiction
Minneopa Valley Press is open to reviewing completed, or nearly completed, nonfiction manuscripts. Please submit up to thirty pages.

How to Submit
Prepare a query letter that briefly introduces your book, yourself, and a market analysis, which should include books similar to yours or identifies how your book fills a hole in the publishing world. Identify your reader. Tell us who is likely to read it. Query letters should not exceed one page in length. Your current mailing address, telephone number, and email address must be included.

Prepare up to thirty pages of your book in either Microsoft Word or as a PDF.

Paper Submissions
MINNEOPA VALLEY PRESS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING
ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPTS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Electronic Submissions
MINNEOPA VALLEY PRESS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING
ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPTS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Un-agented work is welcome, as is agented work. We are a small press with a limited staff size. Allow up to ten weeks for a response. You do not have to exclusively send to Minneopa Valley Press. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please alert us immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.


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