LONG LIVE BOOKS!

C&R welcomes your consideration and work!

All manuscripts in every genre are considered for publication through our full length open general submissions or one of our genre prizes. All of our books are published in print and eBooks.

Each year, C&R Press awards three $1,000 prizes for a poetry book, a novel or short story collection, and a creative nonfiction or memoir book. The winners in each genre, a shortlist, and longlist will be announced in either December of the same year or January of the next. We consider publishing runners-up and other manuscripts. Winning books will receive publication in fall 2025 for 2024 prize submissions. Prizes are an advance against royalties. Each prize winner will also receive a marketing campaign to promote the release of the book valued at $2,000. Any runners-up selected for publication will receive a standard royalty-based contract and generally will be offered publication within a 1-2 year timeline.

All prizes observe the CLMP Contest Code of Ethics. Prizes are also read blind.  Please do not include identifying info inside the manuscript, and see each genre for details. 

C&R Press is engaging our community more than ever, by seeking diverse and submerged voices, and are hosting our first post-pandemic reading at AWP 2024, we hope to host more readings and events at festivals from the Brooklyn Book Festival and the Miami Book Festival, to Decatur Book Festival, and off-site gatherings around the Book Expo, and other events and conferences as we've done in past years.

We look forward to reading your work!

Please read about our long history and some of our authors Honors, Awards & Accolades! If you'd like to see past contest awardees please visit our submissions page.

*Please note that for work we've classified In Progress we do not allow edits or changes to the manuscript. 

*For non-prize full length fiction, memoir, essays and other manuscripts we can take 6-12 months to respond, in some cases faster and in some longer. Our policy is to give manuscripts that have strong, though not unanimous support, multiple chances to be selected across several reading periods. We welcome inquiries and ask for patience. We are giving each work the read through and consideration it deserves. Please feel free to inquire for non-contest submissions after 9 months by dming us through our FB or IG.

*The prize does not apply to regular submissions under consideration from past full-length open periods.