Nonfiction
Please note: Unsolicited nonfiction submissions are currently closed and evaluation of submissions is paused. When submissions are open, authors who would like West Virginia University Press to consider their nonfiction work for publication should contact:
Guidelines for proposals are here. Email inquiries only. Please do not phone the office to discuss proposals or submissions, and please do not mail hard copies of your proposal or manuscript. We will not return mailed submissions.
Fiction
Please note: Unsolicited, agented, and solicited fiction submissions are currently closed and evaluation of submissions is paused. When submissions are open, agents and solicited submissions may email queries to WVUPress@mail.wvu.edu.
Guidelines for submissions are here. Email inquiries only. Please do not phone the office to discuss proposals or submissions, and please do not mail hard copies of your proposal or manuscript.
West Virginia University Press is interested in manuscripts in the following areas:
- African American Literature
- Appalachian Studies
- Art
- Creative Nonfiction
- Energy and Environment
- Fiction
- Geography
- Higher Education
- History
- Music
- Natural History
- Sociology
- West Virginia
If you are interested in publishing in one of our series, please consult the series page for specific information:
- Borderless
- Central Appalachian Natural History
- Energy and Society
- Gender, Feminism, and Geography
- Histories of Capitalism and the Environment
- In Place
- Radical Natures
- Regenerations
- Rural Studies
- Salvaging the Anthropocene
- Sounding Appalachia
- Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- West Virginia and Appalachia
- West Virginia Classics