The Audacity

Open now for fiction and nonfiction.

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The Audacity is Roxane Gay's newsletter featuring the Emerging Writer Series for literary nonfiction essays, and Roxane Gay Books is an imprint accepting agented book submissions in various genres.

Response time info: up to eight weeks (Emerging Writer Series); up to six months (Roxane Gay Books)

Read the full guidelines at gay.submittable.com↗

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fictionLiteraryRomanceScience FictionFantasyEligibility requirements

Open to: Agented submissions

Roxane Gay Books AGENTED Submissions: full-length manuscripts in literary fiction, contemporary romance, science fiction, fantasy, and other genres (excluding poetry, YA, middle-grade, children's, historical fiction, Westerns, police propaganda, autofiction, and 'sad white people marriages'); only…

nonfictionEligibility requirements

Open to: Agented submissions

Roxane Gay Books AGENTED Submissions: full-length nonfiction manuscripts and proposals (memoir, essay collections, other nonfiction); only agented submissions accepted until January 1, 2027. No submission fee.

nonfictionOpens Dec 1

Emerging Writer Series: literary essays and memoir only, 1500-4000 words, for writers with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book contracts; open December 1, 2026. $1000 flat fee per essay. Submissions only via Submittable.

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