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Torrey House Press, LLC
2806 Melony Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84124
mail@torreyhouse.com
(801) 810-9THP
Submission Information
Torrey House Press (THP) publishes environmentally oriented fiction and nonfiction for the book trade. We are currently focused on acquiring environmental nonfiction for an identifiable audience — books with lively, cutting edge thinking on subjects such as the local food and local business movements, perma-culture, water catchment, environmental building and landscape design, renewable energy, how small is beautiful, and other ideas of enlightened, sustainable living. In addition to these focused-niche subjects, we will continue to consider well-crafted works of narrative nonfiction and literary fiction with a natural history, environmental or a natural landscape theme. We remain interested in exploring the notion of why wilderness is important, the value of well managed public lands, and the transformative power of natural places.
If you are a previously published author with a readership following we are particularly interested in you. Consider becoming a big fish in a small pond where you and your work are understood and valued.
In an effort to be green and organized we strongly prefer that you submit your manuscript electronically through our submission manager link below.
If you have a completed work that you feel is a good fit for THP, please submit your entire manuscript along with a synopsis, some background on yourself and why you are a good fit for THP, and your thoughts on who your market and readership is.
For queries on proposed work, please submit a one or two page overview of your book idea along with information about yourself, why you are qualified to write on the subject, who your audience is and how you would propose to market your work. If we like what we see we will request a full proposal.
For a full proposal, once requested, please include a cover letter, a resume, a preliminary table of contents, a one or two-paragraph summary of each chapter, a list of other books on the topic, details and specifics of your target audience, a summary of any market research you have done, and any completed chapters you have.
When you submit please tell us how you found us in your cover letter.
Thank you for your interest in Torrey House Press. Please allow up to three months for us to get back to you.
Torreyhousepress:
Braden Hepner mentioned his connection to you and suggested I contact your company. However, after reading your page, I don’t see any room for poetry, I teach with Braden; he has read much of my work; he suggested I get in touch with you about the possibility of sending you a poetry manuscript of 60-75 poems (100 pages or so) for your consideration. I thought before plugging up your system, I’d inquiry. Jim Papworth
We are talking about poetry at THP but have decided for now that we do not have the wherewithal to do it right, particularly in getting it to market. Sorry to not be more encouraging. Short stories are proving a particular challenge as well. Maybe as we get bigger we will be able to take a better crack at both. We hope so.
I have the same question — I was a second-place winner. It appears the link above is no longer functional.
Hi Natalie,
We’ve been updating our website, and have moved the contest winners to the THP blog. If you click on “writing contests” in the category cloud on the right-hand side of the home page, you will have access to all the winning entries.
Best wishes,
Anne
Do you have a publication with the 2011 submission winners?
Hi Vicki,
The 2011 winners are published on this web site under Paraphernalia>Contest Winners. We may publish a journal of the stories one day but do not have current plans to do so.
Best,
Mark