Submissions

Thank you for your interest in publishing with the University of Tampa Press. UT Press has a long history of publishing books and series in the areas of regional history, poetry, and the fantastic. We invite proposals for trade and scholarly books focusing on Florida art, culture, and history, especially from African American, Latinx, or Indigenous perspectives. We also welcome proposals for studies of global/international issues, translations of fantastic works, Florida field guides, and creative work in experimental forms, such as cross-genre, multimedia, and short format work. Please read our publication ethics statement before submitting.

Submission Guidelines

Send initial inquiries to UT Press via email (utpress@ut.edu). Please do not send full manuscripts until requested. If your project fits within UT Press’s publishing scope, please send a cover letter and book proposal that includes the following:

  • An abstract that describes the work and its contributions. If the project is an edited collection, provide an abstract for each essay.
  • Assessment of the project’s merits, including market viability, intended audience, and related published books
  • Curriculum vitae for all contributors
  • A table of contents with brief summaries
  • A timeline for potential completion
  • A statement of expected word count and visuals. Please address copyright for any previously published writing or images.
  • One or two sample chapters
  • If the manuscript is a translation, discuss why the work should be made available in English. Please provide reviews of the original work, if available; any plans regarding annotations, glossary, introduction, or prefatory materials; and all information about rights to the work.

We review only complete digital proposals and will contact you with our decision within approximately 8-12 weeks of your submission.

Please submit poetry manuscripts to the Richard Mathews Prize for Poetry. The press is not currently accepting unsolicited poetry submissions.

Series

Pomme: A Novella Series

The University of Tampa Press is committed to offering publication opportunities for genres and modes of writing that have been overlooked in traditional publishing. Many university presses have imprints and series dedicated to publishing long-form works of fiction and nonfiction, as well as collections of poetry, but the novella continues to be passed over as a form on its own, often being attached to short-story collections. Our series, Pomme, seeks to fill that void in the literary landscape.

We are interested in submissions of all kinds—including the fantastic, speculative, as well as so-called literary fiction—especially work from traditionally disenfranchised voices. Submissions should follow these guidelines:

  1. Manuscripts must be between 15,000 and 40,000 words in length
  2. Only full manuscripts will be reviewed
  3. Entries must be double-spaced and in 12 pt. font, and they must include page numbers
  4. Excerpts may have been published individually in magazines or anthologies, but the work as a whole must be unpublished
  5. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please notify the Press immediately via email if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere
  6. Include a cover letter that mentions where excerpts have been published, when appropriate
  7. Do not include an acknowledgements page

Pomme is closed to submissions until further notice. Any novella manuscripts sent after September 1, 2023 will not be considered.

Pith: Brief, bizarre books.

Open to the bizarre, slightly off-piste, and totally oddball, Pith leans into the genre affectionately known as Florida Weird. Send us your square manuscript that doesn’t fit in the round holes of academic book publishing.

What the novella is to fiction, the short book is to academic publishing. Increasingly, academic publishers are thinking small. We have seen academic presses launch book series like University of Minnesota Press’s Forerunners, “Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead,” Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons, “a series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things,” and New York University Press’s Avidly Reads, “short books about how culture makes us feel.” The success of such series indicates a demand for the short form academic work, but we wish to open the field, calling for submissions beyond these themes, and especially for works that may combine genres, connect unrelated topics, or otherwise push the boundaries of academic publishing 

The University of Tampa Press has strengths in the study of history, the fantastic, and literature. We seek submissions of intellectually rigorous short works of humanities scholarship, 20,000 to 35,000 words. We are particularly interested in manuscripts that feature topics and perspectives that have been overlooked in scholarly publishing. All requested manuscripts will be blind peer-reviewed. Send queries to utpress@ut.edu. Please follow our regular submission guidelines for all Pith submissions.

Pith is currently closed to submissions but will reopen in 2026.