Fox and Star Books
Fox and Star Books publishes original chapbooks of poetry and fiction with at least 50% of publications by global majority or otherwise marginalised authors.
Founder/Editor: Carrie Etter
Co-Poetry Editor: Kaycee Hill
About the Editors
Editor and founder Carrie Etter has been writing and publishing for over forty years. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Boston Review, The Guardian, The New Republic, The New Statesman, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, The Times Literary Supplement, and many other journals and anthologies internationally. Her five collections of poetry include Imagined Sons (Seren, 2014), shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024). She also edited Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010), a TLS Book of the Year, former student Linda Lamus's posthumous collection, A Crater the Size of Calcutta (Mulfran, 2015), and Claire Crowther's Sense and Nonsense: Essays and Interviews (Shearsman, 2024). She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. (Photo credit Clara Langrick)
Co-poetry editor Kaycee Hill is a mixed-race, working-class poet. She was co-winner of the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize and has published poems in Five Dials and Poetry Review. Hot Sauce (Bloodaxe, 2023) is her first collection.
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Submissions
We hope to publish some of the best debut poetry and fiction in the UK. Could you be one of the authors we're looking for?
We are delighted to announce our inaugural call for poetry chapbook submissions. A call for fiction chapbook submissions will follow in early 2026.
Eligibility:
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You must be resident in the UK.
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You must not have previously published a pamphlet/chapbook or full-length collection of poetry.
Initial Submission:
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Three poems or up to five pages representative of your manuscript.
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A cover letter up to one page introducing yourself and your work.
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Submit the cover letter and poems as a single document in a readable font of 12-14 point.
Longlist Process:
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Selected poets will be invited to submit a full manuscript, presumably 20-24 pages of text.
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At least one debut collection from a global majority/disadvantaged poet will be published, and two collections will be published in total.
Deadline: TBD--watch this space
Entry fee: £10 (a number of free entries will be available to low-income authors)
Winners will have their work published as a limited edition chapbook, receive 10 free copies, and be able to purchase additional copies at 50% of the cover price. A celebratory launch will be hosted in Bristol in the autumn.
We welcome diverse voices and perspectives. Some of our favourite living poets include Liz Berry, Natalie Diaz, Forrest Gander, Terrance Hayes, Kei Miller, Claudia Rankine, Safiya Sinclair, Tracy K. Smith--and many more!