For Readers
Brain Mill Press publishes around twenty titles a year in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics. BMP also has an online journal, VOICES, which publishes columns and commentary.
Every book listing in our upcoming catalog includes an opt-in list for title updates and news. Opt in to be the first to know about preorders, release day, and author news.
All BMP books are available everywhere books and ebooks are sold, in digital and print formats, including directly from BMP. Digital editions ordered through BMP do not contain DRM. Fine first editions of our titles are only available through BMP.
For Authors
Brain Mill Press publishes around twenty titles a year in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics. BMP also has an online journal, VOICES, which publishes columns and commentary.
We are primarily interested in submissions from women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ authors. As a “story-first” publisher, we flatten genre distinctions by focusing our production and marketing decisions around what the appeals are in each project. We commission or purchase original art for every cover, pay for innovative and original cover design, and invest in high-quality editing of all titles. BMP titles are internationally distributed in ebook and print editions and available everywhere print books and ebooks are sold.
Royalties and subrights terms are generous for the industry, and all terms are negotiable. We are happy to work with agents or with authors representing themselves.
We open submissions to novelists and poets several times a year through general and specific calls. Our poetry series publishes chapbooks and single-author collections in alternate years. Our novella contest selects two novellas for publication each year. Each press series opens and closes to submissions at the series editor’s discretion.
We also publish essays by writers and artists on VOICES, our online platform. We invite submissions on monthly themes or to our multiauthor columns. We also consider proposals for new columns. Brain Mill Press pays for essay submissions at industry-standard rates. Currently open calls are posted on our submissions page and listed on our Submittable portal.
Learn about our Mineral Point Poetry Series
Learn about our Driftless Unsolicited Novella Contest
Learn about our Hellum & Neal Series in LGBTQIA+ Literature
Learn about our Ab Terra Series in International Science Fiction
Learn about our Liminal Comics imprint
Learn about our fiction program supporting authors of color, edited by Vanessa Willoughby
Learn about our VOICES contributors
Join our newsletter list to keep abreast of our latest acquisitions and call announcements
For Artists
Supporting makers, including artists, is part of our mission at Brain Mill Press. One way we do this is to use original art on all Brain Mill Press covers and to illustrate VOICES, our online journal. We work with photographers, painters, collage artists, illustrators, printmakers, and other 2-D artists to create appealing cover imagery and interior illustrations to represent every story we publish.
Artists who enjoy writing should consider writing a column for Makers on Making, a monthly feature on our online platform that highlights the art process, success, failure, and what we learn from them. Details can be found on our submissions page.
All of the artists whose work we use are featured on our website and in our newsletter, credited in our publications, and compensated financially and retain rights to their work.
Submit art to current open art calls
For Reviewers and Media
For Agents
Brain Mill Press publishes around twenty titles a year in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics. BMP also has an online journal, VOICES, which publishes columns and commentary.
We are primarily interested in submissions from women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ authors. As a “story-first” publisher, we flatten genre distinctions by focusing our production and marketing decisions around what the appeals are in each project. We commission or purchase original art for every cover, pay for innovative and original cover design, and invest in high-quality editing of all titles. BMP titles are internationally distributed in ebook and print editions and available everywhere print books and ebooks are sold.
Royalties and subrights terms are generous for the industry, and all terms are negotiable.
Agents are welcome to submit their authors’ work at any time during the year to any series, editor, or to the publisher.
We also publish essays by writers and artists on VOICES, our online platform. We invite submissions on monthly themes or to our multiauthor columns. We also consider proposals for new columns. Brain Mill Press pays for essay submissions at industry-standard rates. Currently open calls are posted on our submissions page and listed on our Submittable portal.
Learn about our Mineral Point Poetry Series
Learn about our Driftless Unsolicited Novella Contest
Learn about our Hellum & Neal Series in LGBTQIA+ Literature
Learn about our Ab Terra Series in International Science Fiction
Learn about our Liminal Comics imprint
Learn about our fiction program supporting authors of color, edited by Vanessa Willoughby
Learn about our VOICES contributors
Query BMP via our Invited Submissions portal at Submittable
Join our newsletter list to keep abreast of our latest acquisitions and call announcements
For Bookstores, Libraries, & Events
Books
We publish fiction and poetry for readers interested in authentic, emotional, diverse books about the human experience with love.
Store
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Newsletter
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Voices
Visit Brain Mill Press Voices for original content from writers and makers about writing, love, authenticity, and the human experience.
Submit
We open submissions to novelists and poets several times a year through general and specific calls.
Donate
Donations make it possible for us to pursue ambitious projects of emerging authors, artists, and makers and to take significant risks in the publishing industry. Risk supports innovation and divergent thinking.
Get to Know BMP
Contact Information
Brain MiIll Press
727 S. Jackson St.
Green Bay, WI 54301
Phone: (920) 212-1403
