NOTE

Unsolicited submissions may be sent via Submittable during open submission periods only. Please see our Facebook Page or sign up to our Mailing List to be kept informed of the next open submission period. Except by prior arrangement, we do not accept hard-copy submissions at any time.

WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN

THE DEDALUS PRESS is one of Ireland's best-known and longest established poetry publishers. In fact, we've been publishing new poetry for 40 years now. Our main interest is in new writing by Irish poets or by poets from elsewhere but living in Ireland. We publish 7–8 books per year, ranging from established to up-and-coming voices, and our open-submission periods regularly draw hundreds of new manuscripts, of which we can hope to take on just one or two per year.  

We also publish poetry from around the world in English translation (recent projects include anthologies of contemporary Turkish and Portuguese poetry), Such projects are, however, usually initiated by us and we do not therefore accept submissions through this platform.

When responding to one of our open-submission or Mentoring Programme calls, as well as a selection of your very best poems, we invite cover letters that include general biographical and bibliographical information. However, in the spirit of fairness and impartiality, we operate an initial 'blind' reading policy, and material other than the poems themselves is consulted only after an opinion has been formed on the work submitted.

If you're not already on it, do sign up to the Dedalus Press Mailing List, and/or like the Dedalus Press Facebook page, to keep up with our latest publications and occasional calls for new work.

Thanks for your interest in the press.

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