Submissions
Thank you for your interest in submitting your work to Epistol. We are very pleased to review your submission, and ask that you prepare your file according to the following specifications:
- All submissions should be uploaded in .pdf format
- As much of our ability to publish easily with low costs relies upon the work submitted existing in its final form, we ask that you reformat your document according to the following simple style guide demands: please spellcheck to British English spellings (i.e "honour" vs. "honor"); please do not indent any paragraphs, and place a space between all paragraphs; if your work is divided into sections, a content page should be included, listing those sections before the body of the work begins, and after the title page and any acknowledgement pages; frontispieces always merit their own pages, unless they appear within the body of the text, i.e. after a chapter heading and immediately before the text; the source of a frontispiece should always be italicized; chapters should always be named, but these names do not merit their own pages; if a work is divided into firm sections, there should be a clear break, and thus the "part" heading would merit its own page; please do not double space your work; if your work contains citations, please be careful with your use of footnotes and endnotes, even if rhetorical; short stories, if collected, should be given individual title pages; titles of any kind should be left aligned; titles of poems should appear bolded one space above the first line of the poem; titles should be in all-caps, chapter titles should be formatted as sentences (i.e. 'This is a chapter'). Failure to comply to these style guidelines will result in very boring delays which no one wants to bother with. If your work includes illustrations, or is in a form entirely different to the 'novel', 'novella', nonfiction prose, poetry or short story, please contact submissions to learn how best to format your submission.
- We will automatically convert your font to ours, but please use Times New Roman at 12pt in order to ensure that your pagination remains as you wish; similarly, please change your page size to A4 (rather than 'Letter', for example) before converting to PDF.
- All works submitted should be book-length. If you are submitting a piece of long-form prose (fiction, non-fiction or otherwise), this means that it should be no shorter than 80 pages. If you are submitting a collection of short stories, the collection should contain no fewer than five (5). If you are submitting a collection of poems, the collection should publish at no shorter than 60 "printed" pages. We are not super fussy about this, so please use your discretion and best judgment. If your work defies such gauche descriptions, all the better.
Once you complete the registration, you will be asked to confirm that you have understood and agree to the basic contract and terms and conditions. If you would like another scan of the legal terms, please click here.
We will review work of any form and in any genre, but we ask that you keep in mind our vision and our methodology.
Thank you for your interest in submitting your work to Epistol. We are very pleased to review your submission, and ask that you consider these specifications in preparing your file for upload.