Due to sufficient manuscript volume, NewSouth Books is currently closed for submissions. Please email acquisitions at newsouthbooks.com to be notified when submissions resume.

NewSouth is home to the book publishing imprints NewSouth Books and Junebug Books. Our editors read manuscripts for both imprints, each of which has different requirements, as outlined below. Please query by email before submitting manuscripts to us. A good query will consist of a cover page briefly stating who you are, a description of your book, and why it is appropriate for one of our imprints; a synopsis or outline; and an author bio. Full manuscripts should not be emailed until requested; manuscripts will not be considered unless the author has received prior permission to email them after submitting a query.

Queries should be emailed to our acquisitions at newsouthbooks dot com address. We try to reply promptly, but we are a small company and it may take a while for us to read and consider a submission. Be patient, and try to resist the urge to call to check on our progress.

Queries should not be submitted by mail, only by email. Please retain original copies of any materials sent by email.

NewSouth Books publishes quality works of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, with a special interest in regional history, biography, autobiography, non-fiction, folklore, African American, Native American, and civil rights subjects.

Junebug Books publishes quality, illustrated and non-illustrated works of fiction and non-fiction for young readers. We are especially interested in biographies of African Americans and in concise, interesting books that make understandable to young readers such complex subjects as slavery, segregation, the Civil War, the civil rights movement, and human rights. We are primarily but not exclusively interested in Southern people and Southern settings. We are more likely to publish chapter books than picture books, but will look at the latter if on the subjects mentioned above.

Please watch the NewSouth blog for submission guideline updates and tips for querying authors. You can also download a printable version of our submission guidelines with more information.