Parlor Press’s motto is “equipment for living”. They are an independent publisher and distributor of scholarly and trade books. They publish work in print, and digitally. They are only interested in submissions that are targeted specifically towards one of their existing book series.
Their current series are as follows, but please double check their website to verify that the series listed below are active before submitting.
They consider new work well suited to one of their current series:
Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Steve Parks, Jessica Pauszek, Kristi Girdharry, and Charles Lesh
Comics and Graphic Narratives
Edited by Sergio Figueiredo, Jason Helms, and Anastasia Salter
Critical Conversations in Higher Education Leadership
Edited by Victor E. Taylor
Electracy and Transmedia Studies
Edited by Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia Haynes
Emerging Conversations in the Global Humanities
Edited by Victor E. Taylor
Illuminations: A Series on American Poetics
Edited by Jon Thompson
Inkshed: Writing Studies in Canada
Edited by Roger Graves and Heather Graves
Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay
New Media Theory
Edited by Byron Hawk
Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press, edited by Charles Bazerman, Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Jo Reiff
Renaissance and Medieval Studies
Edited by Charles Ross
Second Language Writing
Edited by Paul Kei Matsuda
Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
Edited by Jessica Enoch and Sharon Yam
Visual Rhetoric
Edited by David Blakesley
Working and Writing for Change
Edited by Steve Parks and Jessica Pauszek
Writing Program Administration
Edited by Chris Carter and Laura Micciche
Writing Spaces
Edited by Dana Driscoll, Matthew Vetter, and Mary Stewart
The X-Series
Edited by Jordan Frith
Any manuscript that does not fit within the confines of one of their current series is not a good fit for them.
They also have a yearly poetry prize series, but it involves a fee, in terms of submissions, and we do not cover opportunities that involve a fee.
Like many academic presses, at Parlor each book “undergoes peer review by scholars or other acknowledged experts or published authors”. Even with this review process, turn around time is generally around three months. This is particularly important because they will not consider simultaneous submissions.
They have lots of additional details in terms of formatting submissions. You can go here to learn more. They allow submissions via email or post.
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