Passager is not currently accepting book queries.
Please see our general guidelines for publication below and check back for opportunities to submit.
To be eligible for publication, you must:
• Be a U.S. resident
• Be age 50 or older
• Have already been published in a print issue of Passager Journal
• Have a completed, previously unpublished manuscript of poetry, short stories, memoir, or personal essays.
If we have already published a book of yours, you are not eligible to submit, unfortunately.
Other requirements:
One submission allowed per person.
We consider a completed manuscript to be 50-60 pages of poetry, or 35,000-55,000 words of prose.
We are currently not accepting translations, posthumous submissions, or previously published books.
We consider previously published to mean:
• If a book has been for sale at any venue it is ineligible.
• If a book has been self-published and sold on the internet (Amazon, for example, or an author’s website) it is ineligible.
However,
• If some of the poems have appeared in a chapbook, of 25 poems or less, it is eligible.
• If the poems have been printed by a vanity press and given to family and friends, it is eligible.