SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submissions to Schaffner Press must be in the English language and in the following categories:

Fiction: Literary Adult Fiction, Short Fiction Collections, and Crime Fiction.

Non-fiction: Memoir, Autobiography, Biography, Journalistic Expose or Narrative, True Crime, Art, Culture, Pop Culture, World History, Current Events, Science, Environmental, Arts and Letters, US history, and Military History.

Please no Children’s or YA fiction or non-fiction. No science fiction, romance, or fantasy.

Length: We will consider manuscripts between 60,000 – 100,000 words.

Query first to tim@schaffnerpress.com, or sean@schaffnerpress.com (do not query us both). Please do not include attachments with your initial query, we will request additional material if interested. We will not consider work that has been previously self-published. Please note that due to high volume and the increasing number of AI generated queries, we are no longer able to respond to every submission. 

A Word about Artificial Intelligence:

At Schaffner Press we celebrate the spirit of human connectiveness and creativity, in all its imperfect glory. As such, we are not interested in considering queries or publishing works that have been co-written, edited, translated, designed or otherwise assisted by the use of artificial intelligence. We are a traditional publisher committed to the words of humans and human intelligence in this rapidly changing technological landscape.