Batis Books: Open for Submissions
Batis Books is a small team, so they can only evaluate submissions that follow the following guidelines.
- Please make your query to submissions@bat.is
- Your submission should contain, in an attachment (either PDF or Word document), either the first 10 000 words or first 40 typed pages of the manuscript you wish for us to consider. For poetry, please send 10 poems or 10 typed pages.
- In the body of your email, please include your writer’s biography and anything that you would like us to know about the book. A synopsis is welcome but is not necessary.
Batis Books will be in touch with you if they wish to read the entire work.
At the moment they are especially interested in novels written by writers from or living in Southern Africa or Scotland. They are also open to approaches for collections of poetry, short fiction, and narrative non-fiction, and for translations of works into English from other languages.
Your book must be unpublished in the United Kingdom and/or the Republic of Ireland. Batis Books may still be interested in books that have been previously (but recently) published in other territories, including Southern Africa.
Because of the large volume of work they handle, Batis Books cannot guarantee that they will be able to respond to you quickly. If you have not heard from them in three months, your submission has most likely been unsuccessful.