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Canadian Scholars’ Press • Proposal Guidelines

Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. (CSPI) publishes approximately twenty books a year. Most of our titles are used as texts in post-secondary courses, though we also publish a limited number of trade tiles a year under our Women’s Press and Kellom Books imprints (see below). We regularly produce edited collections and original texts on a wide variety of academic subjects, with specialization in the disciplines of Sociology, Criminology, Health Studies, Gender Studies, Education, History, French Studies, and Social Work.

Academic Book Proposals

If you teach at the post-secondary level, we invite your proposal for a text or reader. Book proposals should include the following:

· your name, institutional affiliation, and complete contact informationbrief personal biography

· brief outline of the project, including working title, approach, and reasons why the work is important

· please indicate if the book is a reader, contributed volume, conference publication, or original text

· estimated length of the manuscript

· detailed table of contents

· draft introduction

· one or two sample chapters

· names, addresses and e-mail addresses of three (or more) scholars who could assess the work objectively

· the size and characteristics of the target audience for the book, including any courses that you teach for which the book would be relevant

· information about whether a subvention or grant in aid of publication is available

· timetable for your completion of the work

If the book has been developed as a class text please include:

Information about which courses in which universities and colleges (including your own) are likely to adopt the text.
Estimates of class enrollments.
Date when the book will be needed in your class(es).

Trade Book Proposals

Under our Women’s Press and Kellom Books imprints, CSPI publishes a select number of trade titles a year (though Women’s Press also publishes feminist academic works). We publish creative non-fiction, short stories, poetry, fiction, and biography. If you are interested in submitting a manuscript for our consideration, please first familiarize yourself with our publishing program. Manuscript submissions should be provided in hard copy, typed and double-spaced, and include complete contact information, an overview of the work, and a brief assessment of competing/similar titles. If you wish your work to be returned, a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) with sufficient Canadian postage (or international postal reply coupons, for submissions from outside Canada) should be included. Submissions sent from outside of Canada that use non-Canadian stamps on the SASE will not be returned.

Please submit all materials by mail to our Toronto office to the attention of:

The Publishing Manager, Canadian Scholars' Press, 180 Bloor Street West, Suite 801, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2V6.

We do not accept manuscripts which are in the process of multiple submissions.