Submission Guidelines

Gaspereau Press is a Nova Scotia owned and operated trade publisher based in Kentville, Nova Scotia. Publishing short-run editions of both literary and regional interest, Gaspereau Press produces quality first-edition paperbacks and limited-edition hardcover books aimed at the Canadian market. Our list includes poetry, local histories, literary essays, novels and short-story collections.

We do not publish: children's books, commercial or mass-market fiction, cookbooks, how-to guides, fantasy novels, romance novels, science fiction or mysteries. You should be familiar with our books before submitting your manuscript, to ensure that your work is a good fit with our publishing program.

All submissions and editorial inquiries should be sent to the mailing address below. We do not consider email submissions.

We accept both samples and full manuscripts for consideration. Please submit your work on single-sided, unbound, typed pages. Include a cover letter, a list of previous publications and a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE). Submissions without an SASE will not receive a reply. If you would like to have your manuscript returned, you must include sufficient postage. For more detailed submission guidelines, you may wish to refer to The Canadian Writers Market or a similar publication.

Please note that it typically takes between four and eight months to hear back from us. We publish only Canadian authors.

Our mailing address:

Gaspereau Press
47 Church Avenue
Kentville, Nova Scotia
B4N 2M7