Submission Guidelines

We’re currently looking for literary fiction and poetry. Please read the guidelines below before submitting.

Fiction

Our submissions are now open for full length manuscripts of between 40,000 and 100,000 words. This can be a novel, a collection of short stories with a unifying theme, or a work of theory fiction.

We’re looking for innovative work that is unconventional, experimental or speculative. We’re interested in work for an adult reading level, and which neither patronises the reader nor panders to their tastes and prejudices.

We’re not interested in genre-fiction (Sci-fi, Crime, Romance, YA, Historical etc) or any writing which adheres to sclerotic generic conventions in order to appeal to a specific type of reader.

Poetry

We are looking for poetic texts in which language is not only a means of expression, but an object in itself. We are looking for texts that are resistant to categorisation, and in which form plays either a determining role or none at all: indeed, we locate the political in form as well as content. We appreciate textual play with desire as well as politics: we ask, what might a poem want—of itself; of others; of language? Whether the writing is verse poetry, a long poem or a prose poem, we are seeking experimentation, appropriation, and play within and without tradition.

Submissions by e-mail only. Please send your work as a word document or pdf to:

submissions@hyperideanpress.com

Use this format for the subject line: ‘Submissions, First Name. Surname: Title.’ Please mark whether your submission is fiction or poetry.

Please include some biographical information in the body of your email, a synopsis of your work and how you came to write it.

Hyperidean Press is run by volunteers. Unfortunately, we are unable to acknowledge receipt of work. If you haven’t heard back from us within 12 weeks, please assume that your work is not a suitable fit with our press. You can direct submission enquiries to any of the individual editors.

Finally, we firmly believe that the best way to communicate what we’re looking for is to give an idea of what we like to read. We’ve compiled a list of books that we believe to be most representative of our varied tastes:  

Fiction 19th to 20th Century

Petersburg - Andrei Bely 

The Gift - Vladimir Nabokov

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

Oblomov – Ivan Goncharov

Journey to the End of the Night - Louis Ferdinand Céline

Tarr - Wyndham Lewis

Hunger - Knut Hamsun 

Pilgrimage - Dorothy Richardson

Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

The Man without Qualities - Robert Musil 

Insel — Mina Loy

Will O’ the Wisp - Pierre Drieu La Rochelle 

To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

Irene’s Cunt - Louis Aragon

Yukio Mishima - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Snow Country - Yusunari Kawabata

White Noise – Don DeLillo

How late it was, How Late - James Kelman
 

Fiction - 21st Century/Contemporary

Zone — Mathias Enard 

Glitch — Lee Rourke

Cyclonopedia — Reza Negarestani

The Doll’s Alphabet — Camilla Grudova

Threshold — Rob Doyle