Autumn House Press Submissions

Autumn House Press
USA – Novels, SS, Literary Fiction, General Non-fiction

WINNER – AWP’s Small Press Publisher of the Year Award, 2024

Founded in 1998, Autumn House Press is a nationally renowned non-profit publisher based in Pittsburgh, PA, whose mission is to publish and promote poetry, prose and other fine literature.

Autumn House Press is proud to have published debut collections by fiction writers such as Michael X. Wang and Wendy Wimmer, and non-fiction by Beth Alvarado, Dickson Lam, and Clifford Thompson. Autumn House believes literature affirms the deep and elemental range of the human experience,

Autumn House is committed to championing debut, emerging, and established authors.

Autumn House Press Submissions

Unsolicited submissions okay. No agent required.

Autumn House Press publishes 7-8 books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction each year. They accept manuscripts for fiction, non-fiction and poetry, as well as through a publishing partnership with the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.

They only accept manuscripts through their submission manager, Submittable. Please, do not mail or email submissions.

If you have any questions, please check their FAQs page.

Autumn House books have been nominated and won for numerous book prizes such like the CLMP Firecracker Awards, National Book Critics Circle Awards, and more.

Autumn House 2025 titles

– self-driving by Betsy Fagin
– The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Lauren D. Woods
– Bigger: Essays by Ren Cedar Fuller
– Interlocutor Goddess by Jasmine Reid
– I Have Not Considered Consequences by Sherrie Flick

2026 titles

– Les Portes by Meredith Nnoka
– Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think by Grace Spulak
– Self-Portrait as the “i” in Florida by P. Scott Cunningham

Editorial Staff

Christine Stroud: Editor in Chief
Milena Nigam: Managing Editor
Tov Elia: Office Assistant

Authors

– Jay Carson
– Brian Brodeur
– Giuliana Certo
– Michael Credico
– Marilyn Donnelly

Author Spotlight: Ren Cedar Fuller

Ren Cedar Fuller is the author of Bigger: Essays, winner of the Autumn House Press Non-fiction Prize. She also won Under the Sun’s Summer Writing Contest and her essays have appeared in HerStry, Hippocampus, New England Review, North American Review, and Under the Sun.

Ren taught public school in California, Oregon, and Washington before founding a non-profit early learning center near Seattle. She teaches parent education around Seattle and facilitates parent meetings at TransFamilies, an online support hub for families with gender-diverse children. She lives in Seattle with her husband, Jason.

Autumn House in the news…

Autumn House Wins AWP Award

Autumn House Press is happy to announce they have been named the AWP’s Small Press Publisher of the Year Award. The award is an annual prize for non-profit presses and literary journals. It acknowledges the hard work, creativity, and innovation of these presses and journals, and honors their contributions to the literary landscape through their publication of consistently excellent work.

The award includes a $2,000 honorarium and a complimentary exhibit booth, including two complimentary conference registrations, at the AWP Conference & Bookfair in the year following the recipient’s recognition. In even years, the award is given to a journal, and, in odd years, to a press.

Congrats Autumn House!
Autumn House Press
5614 Elgin St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
USA

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