Dalkey Archive Press

(Novels, Literary Fiction, Poetry)
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Dalkey Archive Press is a publisher of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism specializing in the publication or republication of lesser-known, often avant-garde works. They operate in conjunction with Deep Vellum Publishing, located in Dallas, Texas.

Founded in Chicago in 1984, Dalkey Archive began as an adjunct press to the literary magazine Review of Contemporary Fiction, created by John O’Brien.

Dalkey Archive was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle in 2011. DAP authors and translators have been recipients of many major awards, including the Nobel Prize, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, the Vondel Prize, and the Premio Valle-Inclán award.

Dalkey Archive Press Submissions

Unsolicited submissions okay. No agent required.

Dalkey Archive Press publishes primarily literary fiction, rarely poetry or non-fiction.

Please submit by email: toberead@deepvellum.org

If you would like to submit a critical or scholarly work for consideration, please see Dalkey Archive’s Scholarly Series.

Dalkey 2025 titles

– Cigarettes by Harry Matthews
– The Journalist by Harry Matthews
– Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt

2026 titles

– The Tunnel by William H. Gass
– Palinuro of Mexico by Fernando Del Paso
– An Evening of Romantic Lovemaking by Slotky
– Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes

Acquisitions

The Terrible by Michael Bible (Fiction) – A series of interviews in the wake of a horrific act of violence, with a man who moves between his imagined memories of a past life as Ivan the Terrible’s little brother and his more recent recollections as a father careening through modern American society

Dalkey Archive in the news…

Harry Matthews Reissue

Dallas, Texas – Over the next five years, Dalkey Archive Press will reissue ten works of fiction and non-fiction by American writer Harry Mathews. Beginning in June 2025, the press will release new editions of two to three works from Mathews’ oeuvre annually. Titles includes:

– Cigarettes
– The Journalist
– The Conversions
– Singular Pleasures
– The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium
– My Life in CIA
– 20 Lines in a Day
– Tlooth
– The Case of the Persevering Maltese
– The Human Country

See if your book fits in with these Dalkey titles.

Deep Vellum | Dalkey Archive Press
3000 Commerce Street
Dallas, Texas 75226
USA

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