About
Our Mission
Brooklyn Arts Press (BAP) is an independent literary press devoted to publishing poetry books & chapbooks, art monographs, & lyrical fiction & nonfiction by emerging artists. We believe we serve our community best by publishing great works of varying aesthetics side by side, subverting the notion that writers & artists exist in vacuums, apart from the culture in which they reside and outside the realm & understanding of other camps & aesthetics. We believe experimentation & innovation, arriving by way of given forms or new ones, make our culture greater through diversity of perspective, opinion, expression, & spirit.
Our staff is comprised of literary loyalists whose editorial resolve, time, effort, & expertise allows us to publish the best of the submissions we receive.
Worker Bees
Managing Editor/PublisherJoe Pan |
Ghost in the MachineRichard Applebaum |
Senior EditorDebora Kuan
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Cover ArtistsJonathan AllenAaron Sing Fox |
AssociatesMatthew HittingerJohn Wheeler-RappeWendy Pan Millar |
MascotSnowball the Bear |
Contact Us
Brooklyn Arts Press
154 N 9th St #1
Brooklyn, NY 11249
info-at-brooklynartspress.com
Submissions
Reading period: June. Anything submitted outside of June, if not specifically requested, will not be read, as our very helpful readers will not be available.
Response time: We have a small editorial staff, so responses can take anywhere from 1-6 months.
We will accept only one manuscript from a single author during each reading period.
To familiarize yourself with what we publish, consider purchasing one of our titles.
Mailing list: Please note that if you submit to us, you will be placed on our mailing list.
We are now publishing nonfiction, fiction, & poetry chapbooks.
Send all required materials outlined below as a single Word Document or PDF. Apart from your cover letter, which can be pasted into the body of the email, everything else should be included IN ONE DOCUMENT.
Please Include:
-Cover Letter with your name, address, and contact info
-A List of Publications (books, journals, anthologies, online)
-One Paragraph of relevant Biographical Information
-Manuscript
Poetry: Up to 10 pages from your poetry manuscript
Nonfiction: One nonfiction piece (essay, lyrical nonfiction, memoir)
Fiction: One story
Email everything to info-at-brooklynartspress.com.
Send all required materials outlined below as a single Word Document or PDF. Apart from your cover letter, which can be pasted into the body of the email, everything else should be included IN ONE DOCUMENT.
Please Include:
-Cover Letter with your name, address, and contact info
-A List of Publications (books, journals, anthologies, online)
-One Paragraph of relevant Biographical Information
-Up to six (6) Poems from your manuscript, not to exceed 20 pages in length
Email everything to info-at-brooklynartspress.com.
Send all required materials outlined below as a single Word Document or PDF. Apart from your cover letter, which can be pasted into the body of the email, everything else should be included IN ONE DOCUMENT.
Please Include:
-Cover Letter with your name, address, and contact info
-A List of Publications (books, journals, anthologies, online)
-One Paragraph of relevant Biographical Information
-Up to two (2) Stories, not to exceed 30 pages in length, from your short fiction collection.
We prefer lyrical short fiction, which we understand may mean different things to different people, so think short fiction that approaches language with the same intensity as poetry: anything from the prose poems of Carol Guess to the stories of Denis Johnson, William Gass, or Lydia Davis.
Email everything to info-at-brooklynartspress.com.
Send all required materials outlined below as a single Word Document or PDF. Apart from your cover letter, which can be pasted into the body of the email, everything else should be included IN ONE DOCUMENT.
Please Include:
-Cover Letter with your name, address, and contact info
-A List of Publications (books, journals, anthologies, online)
-One Paragraph of relevant Biographical Information
-Up to two (2) Chapters from your novel, not to exceed 30 pages in length. We would prefer to see the first chapter & whichever you consider to be your best chapter (if it is not the first)
Email everything to info-at-brooklynartspress.com.
Send all required materials outlined below as a single Word Document or PDF. Apart from your cover letter, which can be pasted into the body of the email, everything else should be included IN ONE DOCUMENT.
Please Include:
-Cover Letter with your name, address, and contact info
-A List of Publications (books, journals, anthologies, online)
-One Paragraph of relevant Biographical Information
-Up to two (2) Essays or Sample Chapters, not to exceed 30 pages in length
Email everything to info-at-brooklynartspress.com.
Send us the following:
-Cover Letter with your name, address, and contact info
-CV
-20 Images via a Website URL Link (please submit no individual images in email body). If the images have text accompaniment, please include Word Doc or text file containing 10 pages of text or less in email
Email everything to info-at-brooklynartspress.com.
Contests
Brooklyn Arts Press does not offer contests. We only publish work we admire, and feel that sometimes contests force publishers to publish work of questionable quality; we’d rather not find ourselves in that position. Instead, we put what little money we make from selling our books toward producing awesome & adventurous new books, without compromise.
Review Copies
Anyone interested in reviewing a BAP book is invited to email Joe Pan & request a copy of the book they would care to review, along with a list of books they have reviewed in the past, as well as the journals, newspapers, or blogs in which the reviews were published.
Praise for BAP
Working with Joe Pan and BAP, to be honest, made me a better poet. Joe has a kind of sixth sense (about endings, about that missing piece, especially). He is a masterful editor, wise and kind but unsparing—all essential qualities.
The experience of getting a monograph of my art published by BAP reminded me of accounts I’ve read of old-time editors and their tight relationships with their writers and artists. There was something deep and familial about the process—in my case an afternoon-long interview conducted by Joe Pan that constituted much of the book’s text, and a months-long curatorial process that sifted through several bodies of my work. Real quality time.
Brooklyn Arts Press is the kind of small press that every writer hopes for when sending out their work. The books are beautifully designed, well distributed, and meticulously edited. Joe Pan is doing a good thing for the world, and for writers.
Brooklyn Arts Press is what a good small press should be: it is uncontaminated by market forces, its books are wide- ranging and well edited (produced with care and attention), and, most importantly, the press is always committed to broadening our definition of art.
The talented folks at Brooklyn Arts Press turned my manuscript into a work of art. The finished product—my book!—is as delightful to look at as it is to read.
Publishing with Brooklyn Arts Press was an excellent decision. Joe Pan edited our manuscript both deftly and assiduously, helping us create a final version that transcended our hopes for it. And the effort he has expended in promoting it has been invaluable.
Joe Pan is a careful and conscientious editor and book designer. Between his sharp eye and Aaron Sing Fox’s exquisite cover art, the outer appearance of my chapbook reflects a degree of craftedness and consideration that I tried to bring to the poems inside.
Three reasons to submit to BAP: 1.) Their books are gorgeous. BAP’s Joe Pan once gave me a mini-lecture on how the texture of each book cover needs to match the feel and texture of the work inside. 2.) As a young writer, one of the greatest things you can find is a true advocate for your work. At BAP, I found just that. 3.) BAP is run and operated by bad-ass, dedicated perfectionists. You want this! See points #1 & 2.
I’ve had an excellent experience working with Brooklyn Arts Press. The editors with whom I worked to prepare the manuscript for publication were generous, friendly, prompt, and provided insight and guidance on the poems. And I was delighted with the design of the book. It’s clear that Joe Pan and his team put a lot of hard work and creative energy into making quality books.