Aunt Lute Books Submissions

Aunt Lute Books
USA – Novels, SS, Non-fiction, Regional, Feminist

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Aunt Lute Books is a feminist press located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. Founded in 1982 by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss, the press actually got its beginnings in Iowa. Today, Aunt Lute continues to operate as an independent and non-profit publisher.

Aunt Lute has published a number of high-profile feminist and lesbian authors, including Audre Lorde (The Cancer Journals), Gloria Anzaldúa (Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza), Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, LeAnne Howe (Shell Shaker, winner of the 2002 Before Columbus American Book Award, and Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story), Alice Walker, and Paula Gunn Allen.

Aunt Lute is proud to feature titles in the following, extended categories:

– African and African-American
– Asian and Asian-American
– Chicana, Latina, and Latin-American
– Jewish
– LGBTQ+
– Native American

Check out all their great titles: auntlute.com/titles

Aunt Lute Books Submissions

Unsolicited submissions welcome. No agent required.

“Aunt Lute Books is seeking fabulous manuscripts for publication. There is no singular quality we look for in a manuscript we consider for publication. We publish work in a range of genres: novels, short fiction collections, mixed genre anthologies, memoirs, creative non-fiction, bilingual oral histories, and more.”

Please, no

– Incomplete manuscripts or proposals
– Single author poetry manuscripts
– Young Adult manuscripts
– Children’s Books
– Self Help manuscripts
– No A.I.

To submit your manuscript, please fill out the form below. Or, send to: submissions@auntlute.com

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Aunt Lute 2025 titles

– Forced by Circumstance by Norma Alarcon
– Caramelle & Carmilla by Jewelle Gomez

2026 titles

– The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradine

Authors

– Cherry Muhanji
– Geling Yan
– Jewelle Gomez
– Norma Alarcon
– Sauda Burch

Author Spotlight: Alice Walker

Alice Walker, winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple, has earned international recognition as one of the major writers of our time. She is the author of six novels: Possessing the Secret of Joy, Temple of My Familiar, The Color Purple, and from Aunt Lute, Banned (1983).

The recipient of many awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal Award for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Ms. Walker has also written three collections of often-anthologized short stories, three collections of essays, and eight volumes of poetry. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Alice Walker now lives in Northern California.

See if your book fits in with these great Aunt Lute titles.

Aunt Lute Books
P.O. Box 410687
San Francisco, CA 94141
USA
415.826.1300

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