Querencia Press accepts poetry, fiction, non-fiction (including memoir), hybrid work, and occasionally visual art. Please include a short, third-person bio and your pronouns with your submission. *hardsells are listed on our website

• We accept simultaneous submissions and previously published work that has appeared in print or online (this includes blogs and social media). As long as you hold the copyright to the work, we want to see it!
• You keep the rights to your work! Your work belongs to you!
• Querencia Press does not charge a submission fee (though tips are much appreciated). If a manuscript is accepted, you will receive a contract with competitive royalty options, but we are a non-paying market for anthologies. We do not provide physical contributor copies, but we do provide a discount link for contributors.
• We do not tolerate sexism, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, ableism, or any other forms of bigotry. We do accept explicit content, but please provide a trigger warning so we know what we are reading.
• Querencia is a small press. We have only one full time editor and our entire team consists of volunteers. We read and consider each submission carefully in the order that it is received, and we do not believe in silent rejections. You will receive a response. Please try to resist sending follow up emails regarding when your submission will be read. We are currently processing manuscript responses on about a 6-8 month turnaround due to the volume of submissions, sometimes longer for acceptances if we have a large acceptance rate for a particular month.
• All submissions should be in a single .pdf, .doc, or .docx format, however we do not require any specific formatting guidelines. Visual submissions can be sent as PDF, JPG, PNG, or TIFF (please no RAW files) Do not send us Google Docs or Pages—we cannot use them across all of our devices, and if we have to ask for you to resend your submission in a different format, it increases your wait time (if you absolutely have to send Pages because of Apple, please inform us and know we may take a bit longer to get to your submission based on when we have a device available to access Pages). For anthology submissions we ask that you title your document with the genre and the number of pieces and to which anthology callout you are submitting (i.e. Poetry - 5 Pieces - Quarterly Anthology). We do not need a cover letter, but please include a short 3rd person bio and your pronouns with all submissions.