About Us

Who We are

Gordon Hill Press & The Porcupine's Quill are publishers of poetry, innovative fiction, lyric nonfiction, and literary criticism. We publish exemplary writing by a diversity of writers, and we print physically beautiful editions through several imprints.

  • The Porcupine's Quill – Full-length titles of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and criticism.
  • Gordon Hill Press – Full-length titles by authors with invisible disability.
  • The Sheffield Chapbooks – Chapbook-length titles of poetry by New Brunswick authors.
  • mad / sick / different – Chapbook-length titles of poetry by disabled authors
  • Scrummage Chapbooks – Chapbook-length titles for anything else you can imagine.

Submissions

Our submissions are open. Please send submissions to submit@gordonhillpress.com with your full name and manuscript title in the subject heading. Include a cover letter with a brief description of your completed manuscript, your bio statement, and your publication history. If submitting poetry, poetry criticism, or chapbooks, provide your whole manuscript. If submitting fiction, provide an excerpt of up to 25 pages. All submissions should be sent in .doc or .docx format. If submitting nonfiction, you should do so through our Molly Peacock Nonfiction Prize. Please submit only one unsolicited manuscript per year.

We do not publish children's books, YA titles, self-help books, genre fiction, travel writing, or previously published manuscripts. 

We read and respond to all submissions that comply with these guidelines. If you have complied and haven't heard from us after six months, please send an inquiry.