Editorial Focus
JLRB Press is a small-run imprint that specializes in poetry, with a strong emphasis on queer, transgender, women’s, neurodivergent, and emerging voices.
Tips From the Editor
You must submit original works in English (copyright owned) with strong poetic craft and sensitivity to diversity and inclusion.
You may submit co-authored, previously published (rights owned), or out-of-print works; simultaneous subs (contact us if accepted); or fictionalized autobiographies without identifiable real-world parallels (we might decline certain topics).
You must not submit unsolicited, prose-heavy, AI-assisted, visual, multimedia, in-print, or rights-bound works; graphic novels; song lyrics; memoirs resembling real people or events; or works with exclusionary politics or harmful stereotypes.