We’re back! Inanna Publications will be accepting agented and unagented submissions from April to June 2025. Please send us your query and manuscript excerpt by June 30th, 2025.
Submissions will close for the summer on July 1st, and reopen on September 1st.
Inanna Publications and Education Inc. was founded in 1978 with the goal of making current writing and research on a wide variety of feminist topics accessible to the largest possible audience. We welcome fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and academic works (including essay collections) on society, politics, culture and the arts that speak to the diverse lives of women around the world.
While we always want to expand our sense of what makes a contribution “feminist” — we strive to share many different perspectives — we will not publish writing that is sexist, racist, homophobic or in any other way discriminatory or harmful to women.
If you are interested in submitting, please familiarize yourself with the books we have published in the past to ensure that your manuscript is a good fit for Inanna.
If you are interested in submitting to the Canadian Woman Studies Journal, please join the CWS/f mailing list to be notified of calls for papers.
Please be patient. We read and consider each submission we receive, but it does take several months — often up to six months. Please do not call or email to check on the status of your submission. We will get back to you as soon as we can.
Finally, if you have submitted your manuscript to other publishers, please let us know.
General Submission Guidelines:
- We only read completed manuscripts.
- We only accept manuscript submissions that are primarily in English, or translated to English.
- The manuscript should be paginated, no less than 10pt, and double spaced.
- Please include the first 20 pages of your manuscript. We may ask for the full manuscript once the review process is complete.
- Please include your contact information, email, and mailing address within the body of the email or on the first page of your hard copy submission.
- Please include a biographical note that includes your publishing history.
- If submitting an academic title, please see below for detailed submission guidelines.
- Send your manuscript excerpt and query letter as one PDF or Word document to <[email protected]>.
Please note that we no longer require hard copy manuscripts to be mailed to our office.
GUIDELINES: FICTION, CREATIVE NON-FICTION AND POETRY TITLES
Please send us a cover letter telling us in detail what your book is about, the genre or subgenre to which your book belongs, and why you think your submission is a good fit for Inanna. You may also wish to include a few book titles that are similar to yours in terms of content, audience appeal, or sales potential. Please include a biographical note that details in particular any publishing experience you may have.
GUIDELINES: BOOK PROPOSALS FOR ACADEMIC TITLES
1) Synopsis (provide brief description of the objectives and include the following):
What is the aim of the book? What material does it cover? Provide a brief (three to five pages) synopsis of the contents.
What is the target market and audience? For whom is the book intended? Why do they need to buy your book?
Is the book intended as a main text or supplementary reading in an university course? For what courses might the book be recommended?
Address the competition. List the titles of books in direct competition with your book (along with author, publisher and year of publication) and explain how your book compares or fills a vacant niche in the market.
2) Outline:
What is the tentative title of the book?
Please provide a table of contents and a chapter-by-chapter outline of the book.
What is the total length of the book?
List any special considerations for book size, format, design or layout, accompanying illustrations.
3) Author information:
Please provide all your contact information (complete mailing address, telephone number, fax number and email).
Provide a biographical note as well as a list of any other publications. Explain why you as an author are uniquely qualified to write this book. Include relevant experience and credentials as well as any supporting professional expertise and/or publishing credits.
4) Referees (applicable only to academic texts)
Names and addresses of two to three people who would be qualified to comment on the manuscript.
5) Supporting material:
Do you have any supporting material that would provide an indication of the book’s quality?
Please include four or five sample chapters with your proposal.
If we are interested in reading your book, we will ask you to send a hard copy of the complete manuscript to our office as well as an electronic version to <[email protected]>.