For Authors
- Ohio and the surrounding region
- Sports
- History:
- U.S. history, especially the Civil War era and abolitionism
- military
- true crime
- Literary Studies:
- Hemingway
- C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings
We do not publish fiction, except occasionally within our Literature & Medicine series.
We do not publish poetry, except for the winners of the Wick Poetry Prize and Wick chapbook competitions and within our Literature & Medicine series.
- A two- to three-page (double-spaced) description of the project, its purpose, its importance and uniqueness, its contribution to scholarship, its suitability to KSU Press’s publishing program, any competing book(s), and the target audience;
- A table of contents in which each chapter is described by a short paragraph;
- Two or three sample chapters (one of these should be the introduction), if available, or a sample of your published work;
- Your current c.v. or résumé
Direct inquiries to:
Will Underwood
Acquiring Editor
The Kent State University Press
1118 University Library
PO Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242–0001
wunderwo@kent.edu
For your convenience, the Kent State University Press provides the following downloadable guidelines in PDF format.
Electronic Manuscript Guidelines for Authors
Art Submission Guidelines for Authors
Copyright Guidelines for Authors
The Publishing Process
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