Tales from the booksellers

Deep Overstock began simply as a journal to support booksellers who dreamed of writing. The editorial team, booksellers themselves, wanted to help their fellow frustrated writers. From this beginning grew the small press which now issues a quarterly journal and publishes books.

They currently seek subs for the journal. The theme for each quarter, which can be interpreted quite freely, will be found at the website. The next, with a deadline of 28 February, is ‘mystery’.

It publishes ‘fiction, poetry, comics, art, images, medical reports, plays, essays, philosophies, sculptures, sounds, mushroom dataset analyses, magic spells, fairy tales, folklore, riddles, jokes, horoscopes, death-predictions, and more’. They have a sense of humour and like to be surprised.

Fiction, essays, other prose, should be no more 3,000 words, flash fiction must be no more than 1,000 words and up to three pieces of flash are accepted. For poems submit 1-7 poems on the theme.

Artwork is welcomed too. Check the art guidelines for explicit procedure.

Submit by email with an attached doc, docx, rtf or Google doc, to: submissions@deepoverstock.com

Full-length manuscript submissions open in February if the backlog of book subs has been cleared. When submissions are open email a good, detailed, pitch. In the body of the email include ‘a little bit about yourself’, a bio and ‘why Deep Overstock is the right publisher for the work.

Response time is ‘slow’. Rights, payment, etc, are discussed on acceptance.

Website: https://deepoverstock.com