Now reading for 2026!

 

Submissions for the 2026 Toad Press International chapbook series are now open, and we can't wait to read your translations!  

 

Review our Submission Information and FAQs for more details. When you're ready, send us your chapbook manuscript via Submittable. We are open for submissions through December 31, 2025, and we aim to make our choices for the 2026 series (publication in summer/fall 2026) by early February. 

 

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.

 

When you're ready, head to Submittable and send us your work.

 

Now reading for 2025!

 

Submissions for the 2025 Toad Press International chapbook series are now open, and we can't wait to read your translations!  

 

Review our Submission Information and FAQs for more details. When you're ready, send us your chapbook manuscript via Submittable. We are open for submissions through December 31, 2024, and we aim to make our choices for the 2025 series (publication in summer/fall 2025) by early February. 

 

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.

 

When you're ready, head to Submittable and send us your work.

 

 

 

 

Now reading for the 2024 series!

 

Submissions for the 2023 Toad Press International chapbook series are now open, and we can't wait to read your translations!  

 

Review our Submission Information and FAQs for more details. When you're ready, send us your chapbook manuscript via Submittable. We'll be open for submissions through December 31, 2023, and we aim to make our choices for the 2024 series (publication in summer/fall 2024) by early February. 

 

We invite you to submit for free, choose to pay a $6 submission fee, or purchase a chapbook from our impressive catalog when you submit. Don't forget, you can always purchase Toad Press titles, book bundles, or Veliz titles from the Veliz Books store!  

 

When you're ready, head to Submittable and send us your work. 

2022 Chapbooks!

 

We are so excited to share our 2022 lineup! We'll be publishing three excellent translations this year:

• Void Odyssey, a book-poem-performance by Renato Negrão, translated from the Brazilian Portuguese by Sarah Rebecca Kersley
• In the Gloom on the Left, poems by Joyce Mansour, translated from the French by Molly Bendall
• The Seamstresses, creative nonfiction by Elena Poniatowska, translated from the Spanish by Rowena Galavitz

Thanks to all who shared your work with us this year during our annual open reading period -- we loved reading all the submissions we received! 

Stay tuned, and look for these new titles in summer/fall 2022 -- 

Open Submissions, October 15-December 31, 2021

  

Submissions for the 2022 Toad Press International chapbook series are now open, and we can't wait to read your translations! 

Review our Submission Information and FAQs for more details. When you're ready, send us your chapbook manuscript via Submittable. We'll be open for submissions through December 31, 2021, and we aim to make our choices for the 2022 series (publication in summer/fall 2022) by late January. 

While we don't require submission fees, we do hope you'll consider purchasing a chapbook from our impressive catalog when you submit to us, or purchasing our Toad Press titles, book bundles, or Veliz titles from the Veliz Books store. 

 

2021 Chapbook Series

We are delighted to share that the Toad Press International chapbook series will publish three new translations this year:

Codex of the Insane (Body and Related Matters), poems by Bronka Nowicka 

translated by Katarzyna Szuster

The Cheapest France in Town, poems by Seo Jung Hak

translated by Megan Sungyoon

Faith in Strangers, poems by Katarzyna Szaulińska 

translated by Mark Tardi

Look for these titles coming your way in Summer / Fall 2021.  

Thank you to all who submitted your work -- we are grateful to have had the opportunity to read so many wonderful translations during our recent open reading period! 

 

New translations for 2020!

We are so happy to share that the Toad Press International chapbook series will publish two new translations this year:

A Musical Education, poems by Yaki Setton 

translated by Sergio Waisman

The Absolute Reader, poems by Miri Ben Simhon

translated by Lisa Katz

Look for these titles in Summer / Fall 2020.  
 
Thank you to all who submitted your work -- we are grateful to have been able to read and consider so many of your wonderful translations during our open reading period!

2018 Chapbook Series

We are delighted to share that the Toad Press International chapbook series will publish three new translations this year:

Two-Step, a play by Jacques Jouet & Olivier Salon

translated by Emma Ramadan & Chris Clarke

houses / stripped, poems by Paola Loreto

translated by Lawrence Venuti

Blue Birds and Red Horses, poems by Inna Kabysh

translated by Katherine E. Young

Look for these titles coming your way in Summer / Fall 2018.  

Thank you to all who submitted your work --we feel lucky to have had the opportunity to read so many wonderful translations during our recent open reading period, and we wish we could bring more of these titles out into the world!

Big news - 3 great chapbooks coming your way in 2017!

Thanks to all who submitted work during our  open reading period -- it was a pleasure to read the amazing translations you sent, and your great work made our decisions tremendously difficult.

We're happy to share that we'll have three wonderful titles to share with you in late summer / fall 2017. 
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Look for:
 
José Daniel's SHADOWSLONGSHOREMAN
                  translated by Jesse Tangen-Mills
                        &
Roberta Iannamico's WRECKAGE
                    translated by Alexis Almeida
                         &
Kim Kyung Ju's FROM WHALE AND VAPOR
                   translated by Jake Levine
                       .  
coming your way, in a few short months.

2016 Open Reading Period

Thank you all for sending so many great translations our way during the 2016 open reading period!

We have so much pleasurable reading & some difficult decision-making ahead, but we'll aim to finalize our 2017 chapbook selections very soon, and share the good news with you here in early February-ish. Please stay tuned....

 

Yes, we are open for submissions! 

Please read our submission information for guidelines, check out the FAQs, and then hop over to our submittable page and upload your work.

We'll remain open for submissions through December 31, 2016. Please take a look at our previous publications, hone your translation, and then send over some fine poetry or prose translations for us to consider.

We look forward to reading your work!

2015 Open Reading Period

Thank you all for sending so many amazing translations our way during the 2015 open reading period!

We see that we have our work cut out for us: so much great reading & difficult decisions ahead, but we'll aim to make our 2016 chapbook choices asap so that we can share the news with you here in early February-ish. Stay tuned....

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We are open for submissions!!!!! Please read our submission information for guidelines, check out the FAQs, and then hop over to our submittable page and upload your work.

We'll remain open for submissions through December 31, 2015, so please take a look at our previous publications, hone your translation, and send it on over in the next couple of months. We look forward to reading your work! 

2014 Open Reading Period

We're now open to your submissions!!!!! Please read our submission information for guidelines, then hop over to our submittable page and upload your work.

We'll remain open for submissions through December 31, 2014, so please take a look at our previous publications, hone your translation, and send it on over in the next couple of months. We look forward to reading your work! 

We've extended our reading period this year -- new deadline is 1/15/15! 

Update 2/1/15: Thank you all for sending your fantastic translations our way! If you haven't yet heard back from us about your submission, it's because we're still happily reading your work. We anticipate responding to all submissions by mid-February. 

Submission Information

Toad Press accepts open submissions of chapbook-length translations for the International Chapbook Series each year between October 1 and December 31. We now accept submissions by email only. Send ~14-24 pages of poetry or prose, a cover sheet with name and contact information, table of contents (if applicable), and acknowledgements page (if applicable) to us at toadpress(at)hotmail(dot)com. Please attach your work as a .doc or .rtf file and put the word "submission" somewhere in the subject line of the email. Toad Press publishes between 1 and 3 chapbooks a year. Chapbooks accepted for publication will appear the following Summer/Fall. Payment is in copies only. There is no reading fee. Questions? Email toadpress(at)hotmail(dot)com