Book Submissions are now open!insert

Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival will take place on Saturday, November 10, 2018 at the Portland Art Museum and neighboring venues. The festival will feature a diverse group of contemporary authors in conversations, panels, and presentations. When evaluating submissions, we consider not only a book’s literary merit but where it might fit in with the other work in the festival lineup.

The deadline for submissions is June 29, 2018

To be considered for this year’s festival, please send or have your publicist send the following:

3copies of your work.

We accept submissions of books, gallies, ARCs, or manuscripts, but electronic submissions will not be considered.

1completed submission form.

You may attach additional information if needed regarding travel, local connections, or anything else we should know to best evaluate your submission. Download the form.

1press kit.

Your press kit should include clippings, reviews and an author bio, including past publications when applicable, and any other information that often helps us evaluate the submission.

The festival will consider works in the following genres:

Art and architecture, children’s literature (including middle grade and young adult), cookbooks and food writing, poetry, all genres of fiction, and narrative nonfiction (history, biography, memoir, and essay).

Submissions should be sent to:

Literary Arts,
ATTN: BOOK FESTIVAL,
925 SW Washington Street,
Portland, OR 97205

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Please Note:
  • Incomplete submissions will not be considered. Please make sure you include all materials
  • To be considered, books must be published in the eighteen months preceding the festival; priority consideration will be given to books published in 2018.
  • Books are accepted on a rolling basis. Please send your submission at your earliest convenience.
  • Should you be selected to be a part of the festival program, you will hear back no later than September 2018.
  • Due to the large number of submissions we receive, we are unable to reply to each inquiry individually.
  • Books are accepted on a rolling basis. Please send your submission at your earliest convenience.
  • Should you be selected to be a part of the festival program, you will hear back no later than September 2018.
  • Due to the large number of submissions we receive, we are unable to reply to each inquiry individually.
  • Materials will not be returned.
  • All authors who are invited to participate will be featured in a panel or conversation session with other authors; the festival will not feature authors for book signings only or for solo presentations/readings.
  • The festival focuses on the promotion of literature and literary culture; books on the topics of self-improvement, how-to, or books strictly of academic or religious interest will not be considered.
  • Self-published titles will only be considered if printed copies can be available for our book seller to sell, the work has been professionally edited and a marketing plan is in place, and the author maintains an accessible website.