The Toad Press International Chapbook Series publishes contemporary, exciting, beautiful, odd, and avant-garde chapbook-length translations of poetry and prose. We accept submissions of chapbook-length TRANSLATIONS for the International Chapbook Series each year between October 15 and December 31.
We accept online submissions only. Your submissions should include ~14-26 pages of poetry or prose, cover sheet with name and contact information, table of contents (if applicable), and acknowledgments page.
- Toad Press publishes 1-3 chapbooks each year
- Chapbooks accepted for publication will appear the following Summer/Fall
- Payment is in copies only
- Simultaneous submissions during our open reading period are encouraged, but please do us the courtesy of withdrawing your manuscript immediately if it is accepted elsewhere
- During our open reading, we invite you to submit for free, support our small press by paying a reading fee, or pay a reading fee & purchase a chapbook from our impressive catalog when you submit
Visit https://toadpress.blogspot.com for full submission information and to review our FAQs
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Want to buy a Toad Press title? Hop over to Asterism or to our Etsy shop to purchase! For chapbooks published before 2019, choose the "purchase a chapbook" option below. You may also email us at toadpresschaps@gmail.com to ask about upcoming in-person sales or other purchasing options.
Would you like a review copy of one of our forthcoming or recently published chapbooks? Great! We love it when people read and talk about literary translations.
We can currently send free review copies to addresses in the US only. If you reside outside the United States, please send us an email at toadpresschaps@gmail.com to check on availability of e-copies for review.
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Note: Toad Press does not currently publish reviews. Use this form to request a review copy of a Toad Press chapbook; it's then up to you to write the review and find a home for it.
Some print and online journals that might be interested in considering reviews of Toad Press titles include: 91st Meridian, Asymptote, Circumference, Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation, periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics, and Three Percent.
Toad Press reads open submissions of chapbook-length TRANSLATIONS for the International Chapbook Series each year between October 15 and December 31. Please upload your entire submission--a cover sheet with your name and contact information, table of contents (if applicable), ~14-24 pages of poetry or prose, and acknowledgments page (if applicable)--in a single file. Toad Press publishes between 1 and 3 chapbooks a year. We anticipate selecting 1 or 2 chapbooks for publication in 2027. Chapbooks accepted for publication will appear the following Summer/Fall. Payment is in copies only.
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We invite you to submit for free, choose to support our small press by paying a $6 reading fee, or pay the reading fee & purchase a chapbook from our impressive catalog when you submit.
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Note: We publish literary chapbooks translated by humans, as literary translation is a creative, human practice. We do not publish AI-created or AI-assisted translations.
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Questions? Check out the FAQs on our website ( https://toadpress.blogspot.com/p/faqs.html ) or send us an email at toadpresschaps@gmail.com.
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About our submission options:
$0 - no reading fee
$6 - reading fee only
$12 - submit + choose a chapbook (see list below), for US addresses only
$14 - submit + choose a chapbook (see list below), for mailing addresses outside the US
Thank you for choosing to submit your work to us!
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Reading fees help us to cover the costs associated with running a small press, and we appreciate your support!
When you choose the $12/$14 "submit + choose a book" option, please select one of our previously published titles from the list below.
- In Bloom (Katarzyna Szaulińska, trans. Mark Tardi)
- Loopholes (Tamara Štajner, trans. Rebecca Weingart)
- Leaving the Beach (Ariane Dreyfus, trans. Elaine Terranova)
- Middle-Aged Man's Self-Portrait (Yan An, trans. Chen Du & Xisheng Chen)
- DIAMONDS & RUST (Catalina Vergera, trans. Tiffany Troy)
- An Unknown Taste (Park Soran, trans. Susan K)
- 09/09 : Nine Japanese Female Poets / Nine Heian Waka (trans. Naoko Fujimoto)
- a species of least concern (Maria Cyranowicz, trans. Małgorzata Myk)
- Hekate (Anna Glazova, trans. Alex Niemi)
- Word Heart (Yaxkin Melchy, trans. Ryan Greene)
- Void Odyssey (Renato Negrão, trans. Sarah Rebecca Kersley)
- The Seamstresses (Elena Poniatowska, trans. Rowena Galavitz)
- In the Gloom on the Left (Joyce Mansour, trans. Molly Bendall)
- Faith in Strangers (Katarzyna Szaulińska, trans. Mark Tardi)
- The Cheapest France in Town (Seo Jung Hak, trans. Megan Sungyoon)
- Codex of the Insane (Bronka Nowicka, trans. Katarzyna Szuster-Tardi)
- A Musical Education (Yaki Setton, trans. Sergio Waisman)
- The Absolute Reader (Miri Ben Simhon, trans. Lisa Katz)
- For the Seals (Juan Manuel Sánchez, trans. Jesse Lee Kercheval & Ruth Llana)
- The Meat Market (Shaheen Akhtar & Mashiul Alam, trans. Shabnam Nadiya)
- Experimental Gardening Manual (Sebastián Jiménez Galindo, trans. Naomi Washer)
- Two Step (Jacques Jouet & Olivier Salon, trans. Emma Ramadan & Chris Clarke)
- houses | stripped (Paola Loreto, trans. Lawrence Venuti)
- Blue Birds and Red Horses (Inna Kabysh, trans. Katherine Young)
- Poet Blood (Kim Kyung Ju, trans. Jake Levine)
- Shadowslongshoreman (José Daniel García, trans. Jesse Tangen-Mills)
- The Night's Belly (Sara Tuss Efrik, trans. Paul Cunningham)
- Tail of the Whale (Alice Sant'Anna, trans. Tiffany Higgins)
- Mainland (stinne storm, trans. stinne storm)
- ANTI-FERULE (Karen Wild Díaz, trans. by Ron Paul Salutsky)
- The Tears (Olivia Rosenthal, trans, Béatrice Mousli)
- Passenger ultrasound (Justyna Bargielska, trans. Katarzyna Szuster)
- Eduardo Milan: Poems (trans. Leora Fridman)
- The Flying Head (Ioan Flora, trans. Adam J. Sorkin and Elena Borta)
- The Baden-Baden Lesson Plan in Acquiescence (Bertolt Brecht, trans. Justin Vicari)
- Fernando de Rojas Asleep on His Own Hand (Rafael Ballesteros, trans. Steven J. Stewart)
Please select this option to purchase ONE of our chapbooks (published between 2004-2018. For titles published 2018 or after, please purchase from Asterism).
Note: If your mailing address is outside the US, choose the $11 shipping category. Available titles:
- Anti-Ferule (Karen Wild Díaz, trans. Ron Paul Salutsky)
- The Tears (Olivia Rosenthal, trans. Béatrice Mousli)
- Passenger ultrasound (Justyna Bargielska, trans. Katarzyna Szuster)
- *Roly Poly (Victoria Estol, trans. Seth Michelson)
- Every Good Heart Is a Telescope (Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, trans. Katherine M. Hedeen)
- Eduardo Milan: Poems (Eduardo Milan, trans. Leora Fridman)
- The Flying Head (Ioan Flora, trans. Adam J. Sorkin and Elena Borta)
- *An Evening in Europe (Jorg Fauser, trans. Mark Terrill)
- *Arctic Poems (Vicente Huidobro, trans. Nathan Hoks)
- The Baden-Baden Lesson Play on Acquiescence (Bertolt Brecht, trans. Justin Vicari)
- *Mercury Project (Grzegorz Wroblewski, trans. Adam Zdrowski)
- Fernando de Rojas Asleep on His Own Hand (Rafael Ballesteros, trans. Steven J. Stewart)
- *Woman Bathing Light to Dark (Paul Eluard, trans. Justin Vicari)
- *Martial Artist (Martial, trans. George Held)
*limited quantities available; please query before ordering this title.
Thanks!
Chapbooks are $5 each, plus $2 local shipping and fees or plus $6 overseas shipping and fees.
Note: we do not provide tracking numbers for orders placed through Submittable. If you'd like to track your package, please order from Etsy (US addresses only) or Asterism (US and worldwide).