Submit to the Toad Press International chapbook series (literary translations)
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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 2026. 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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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.
- 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)