Gold Wake Press

02/05/2025

We are open for full length submissions in any genre!

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03/22/2024

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For full-length books, Gold Wake holds two Open Reading periods per year, one in the fall and one in the spring, and open to full-length manuscripts in all genres. We select books exclusively through these Open Reading periods, and publish roughly 2-4 titles per year from the submissions we receive...

03/06/2024

We are open to full-length submissions in all genres for a limited time:

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03/31/2023

30 days left!

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We are open to manuscripts *in any genre* that are at least 50 pages

03/01/2023

After some wait, we are now open to submissions!

https://goldwakepress.submittable.com/submit/255609/spring-2023-open-submission-period

We are open to manuscripts *in any genre* that are at least 50 pages

06/13/2022

Check out this awesome review of Keen!

Erin Stalcup is a big-hearted human who writes novels with her blood. What I mean is that when Erin cares about somethings, someones—she goes all in. She is radical and boundary-pushing in all aspe…

06/03/2022

"A mesmerizing meditation on immortality, both the literary and fleshly kinds and its ultimate unattainability... like language, like summer, like love, Oblivion is irresistible."- Junot Diaz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

https://www.amazon.com/Oblivion-Robin-Hemley/dp/1637527810/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=oblivion+robin+hemley&qid=1654288241&sprefix=oblivion+robin%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-1

06/01/2022

Robin Hemley's book launches today! :)

https://www.oblivion.cafe/

Peer into the window and see what awaits

04/19/2022

2022 OPEN READING PERIOD RESULTS!

Thank you to everyone who submitted!

We’ve selected an amazing book for publication:

Monster Movie by Laura Bandy

Finalists:
Last Words by Cynthia Reeves
Live Oak Nearly on Fire by Leah Claire Kaminski
How to Disappear in America by Michelle Franke.
The Peeling of a Name by Anhvu Buchanan

Please accept our sincere gratitude for your support of Gold Wake!

04/18/2022

New review of Kim Magowan's book!

https://flashmonsters.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/on-kim-magowans-how-far-ive-come-from-al-kratz/

03/31/2022

A starred review for Robin Hemley!

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robin-hemley/oblivion-hemley/

Good news, fiction fans—there's autofiction, fabulism, literary biography, and even Yiddish theater in the afterlife.

03/30/2022

Less than 48 hours remaining to send in your book!

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For full-length books, Gold Wake holds two Open Reading periods per year, one in the fall and one in the spring, and open to full-length manuscripts in all genres. We do not charge a separate contest/submission fee---if you buy a Gold Wake book through Submittable, you get a free manuscript submissi...

03/29/2022

Just 3 days left to send in your manuscript. Will we be publishing your book in 2022?

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For full-length books, Gold Wake holds two Open Reading periods per year, one in the fall and one in the spring, and open to full-length manuscripts in all genres. We do not charge a separate contest/submission fee---if you buy a Gold Wake book through Submittable, you get a free manuscript submissi...

03/27/2022

Just 4 days to send us your manuscript!
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For full-length books, Gold Wake holds two Open Reading periods per year, one in the fall and one in the spring, and open to full-length manuscripts in all genres. We do not charge a separate contest/submission fee---if you buy a Gold Wake book through Submittable, you get a free manuscript submissi...

03/26/2022

1005 in the Book fair at AWP! Last Day!

03/21/2022

Just 10 days to send us your manuscript!

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For full-length books, Gold Wake holds two Open Reading periods per year, one in the fall and one in the spring, and open to full-length manuscripts in all genres. We do not charge a separate contest/submission fee---if you buy a Gold Wake book through Submittable, you get a free manuscript submissi...

03/18/2022

13 Days Left to Enter!

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For full-length books, Gold Wake holds two Open Reading periods per year, one in the fall and one in the spring, and open to full-length manuscripts in all genres. We do not charge a separate contest/submission fee---if you buy a Gold Wake book through Submittable, you get a free manuscript submissi...

03/16/2022

Check out this review with Kim Magowan!

https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2022/03/a-review-of-how-far-ive-come

How Far I've Come is a short story collection, though that label seems inadequate to describe Magowan's quirky, sad, funny, biting, insightful, and compellingly "true" stories. The book's playful cover and design didn't prepare me for its impressive range. Reading the collection was like an all-you-