Book Proposals

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 for more information). 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.

If you are interested in submitting a manuscript for consideration, please familiarize yourself with our publishing program.  

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 information

·         brief 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

 

 

Trade Book Proposals

Under our Women’s Press, Kellom Books, and Sumach Press 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.

Important:

Only hardcopy submissions sent by mail will be accepted.  We do not accept submissions by e-mail or fax.  Telephone inquiries about manuscripts will not be returned.

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.

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

Please allow up to four months for a response to your submission.

Please do not submit original artwork.

 

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

Submissions, Canadian Scholar's Press, 180 Bloor Street West, Suite 801, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2V6