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@QuerenciaPress
independent publisher amplifying overlooked voices & creating a safe space for writers and artists to share their stories querenciapress.com/books
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    Querencia Press SUBS OPEN
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    Dec 27, 2024
    We Were Seeds is out now! This collection features 60 voices from around the world, writing their thoughts on gen0cide & their wish for peace for P@lestine. All sales from this anthology will be donated @thesameerproject & to mutual aids on @gazafunds
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    Sep 18, 2024
    I know a lot of editors probably don't agree, but I am so sick of seeing editors make their edits based on a ton of old rules that we don't follow in every day speech anymore. Editing a YA right now (it's so good, can't wait for this one), & the author has an intro note about
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    Querencia Press SUBS OPEN
    @QuerenciaPress
    Nov 9, 2024
    Please please please support small presses right now. It doesn’t have to be this small press. Just any of them. After January, it’s going to be much harder to do so, and we are all going to need the engagement from the end of this year to help keep us afloat.
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    Querencia Press SUBS OPEN
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    Jul 15, 2023
    SUBMISSIONS OPEN for our unthemed quarterly anthology coming in autumn! We accept work in all written genres (no visual art for quarterly anthologies) ✨ don’t forget to check the guidelines on our website before submitting
    Brown leaves on white background with text reading SUBMISSIONS OPEN AUTUMN - accepting unthemed poetry, fiction, cnf, & hybrid - deadline: September 1st
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    Querencia Press SUBS OPEN
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    Nov 7, 2023
    We are looking for horror submissions for a new anthology! All categories welcome (fiction, poetry, cnf, visual, hybrid, w/e) Deadline is January 1st, don’t forget to read guidelines & put horror in your subject line so it doesn’t get lost
    Horror call out all categories open deadline: 1/1/24
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    Sep 17, 2024
    reminder because we just had someone pull a submission for this reason - EIC @emily_perkovich is a SxWer as are more than a few of our authors & masthead. We are pro SxWers. If you aren't we may not be the best fit for your work.
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    Querencia Press SUBS OPEN
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    May 28, 2024
    Querencia Press is partnering with Chloe Maria Winstanley as editor & curator on an anthology to benefit Palestinian refugees. Profits from this anthology will be donated to @UNRWA which provides assistance and protection for Palestinian refugees ✨ link in bio
    Pink background with watermelon print. Text reads SPECIAL CALLOUT—anthology for Palestine—ALL GENRES OPEN, DEADLINE JULY 27
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    Aug 15, 2024
    This was my response to someone who has chatted with me a few times and asked if I could take their work because they are neurodivergent & querying is hard. I’m sharing this because it was a hard, uncomfortable conversation I’d to love to avoid anyone having to have.
    I have a pretty long answer for you, so I just want to say before hand that none of this is said out of anger. This is just educating information.

I can help you get a submission packet ready and give you querying advice, but I cannot publish work this way. This honestly puts me in a very uncomfortable position, and a lot of publishers would blacklist someone for this. 

We get hundreds of submissions a month and lots of them are from neurodivergent people, so it isn’t equitable to take a submission from someone who didn’t put in the same amount of respect to the publisher and care for their own work. I have declined work from real life friends and from writers that are on the Querencia team and even from other editors that have previously published me. The amount of work that goes into reading and curating is much larger than most people realize and often emotionally taxing on top of it.
    Asking an editor to take work sight unseen without following submission process creates an expectation for them to do that again in the future. If I said yes to every person that asked to forgo sub guidelines (especially the amount that would do so if they knew that they could), I would never make it through submissions and often wouldn’t be presenting a quality product to readers. 

We have a whole reading team that picks and curates the work together. So often getting a rejection isn’t even due to quality but instead to fit. 

Last thing is a personal viewpoint. But as a querying author, I personally think that if you can’t query then you aren’t ready to be published (this is outside of the fact that it seems inequitable when everyone else is putting in the work to get published). Not everyone is going to like your work and querying it helps prepare you for the things that come with being published. Like rejection and responding to people who want to know more about the work.
    I know querying can feel like a lot, so again, I can help you with that. But I can’t just accept work from someone that doesn’t actually do the querying. Especially since we have extremely lax guidelines to begin with.
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    Sep 18, 2024
    Replying to @QuerenciaPress
    about rules and more about the flow. Is it natural? Are the run-ons distracting or hard to read through? Is the slang so colloquial that it can't be parsed? If not, why are we sucking the life out of stories? I just wish we'd move away from this grammar police expectation.
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    Querencia Press SUBS OPEN
    @QuerenciaPress
    Aug 15, 2024
    I don’t care if it means you won’t submit to us or won’t read us. I will NEVER be publishing besties just to make them feel good. We are looking for quality work from marginalized people that gets passed up to pay fair royalties to & give fair chances.
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    Querencia Press SUBS OPEN
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    Sep 18, 2024
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    like passive voice or improper grammar/too many contractions. people. don't. speak. like. that. anymore. It is ok to say wanna instead of want to in dialogue or have your YA character think that she literally wants to die of embarrassment. I feel like editors need to worry less
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    Querencia Press SUBS OPEN
    @QuerenciaPress
    Jul 10, 2023
    I just finished proofing our summer anthology, and I would like to be able to add a few more fiction and cnf pieces. So, if you’ve got something looking for a home (we take reprints also), send it today or tomorrow, get a response right away!
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    May 3, 2024
    Hey. Not elaborating. But. If you don’t support a free Palestine, you can click that unfollow any time now, and in the meantime keep your name out of our submission queue. 🥰
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    Querencia Press SUBS OPEN
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    Jul 18, 2024
    Unthemed quarterly submissions are open for Autumn! We take all written genres for our quarterly anthologies, and submissions can be sent through Submittable ✨ link in bio—please read submission guidelines. Deadline September 1st
    Mushroom woman and flying deer in earthy tones, text reads—Autumn Subs Open, no theme, fee free, poetry, cnf, fiction

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