About Black Moss Press

An ongoing commitment to publishing new and innovative literature

Black Moss Press
2450 Byng Road
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
N8W 3E8

To submit a manuscript

For all submissions:

Please submit by mail three copies of the following:

A short biography including citizenship and residence (no more than one page);

A list of previously published work, reviews, etc. (no more than two pages);

Why you believe it is important (no more than one page);

What you would do to help us promote the book and where you believe it would sell (no more than one page)

Your contact information, including an email address.

For poetry submissions:

In addition to the above, please submit no more than 10 poems (no more than 10 pages total) from the manuscript.

For all other submissions:

In addition to the above, please submit a one-page outline of the manuscipt and the first two chapters (no more than 15 pages).

Review and response

Our goal is to respond to every submission we recieve by email.

Please be patient. Black Moss is a small press and it can take some time.

Past and Current Highlights

Poetry in unusual places

Black Moss continues its commitment to introduce poetry to people in unusual venues. Our authors have read on factory floors, in hockey rinks and before boxing matches.

Right, John B. Lee reads to a Windsor Spitfires player in Windsor Arena. Below, Marilyn Gear Pilling reads to youngsters at the Windsor Boxing Club.

Black Moss planning third annual reading for Canadian authors in Paris

For the past two years, Black Moss authors have read their work to standing room only crowds at Shakespeare and Company, the renowned English bookstore on the left bank in Paris. Plans are underway for a third reading and European tour in 2007.

Lynn Harrigan's Moon Sea Crossing adapted for 2006 Toronto Fringe Festival

An adaptation of Moon Sea Crossing by Lynn Harrigan was performed at the Toronto Fringe Festival in July. -"It's really hard to get into the festival and I'm very excited that Moon Sea Crossing was a part of it,"Harrigan said.

About Black Moss

Since it was founded in 1969, Black Moss Press has built a national reputation for its contribution to Canadian literature. Quill and Quire has called Black Moss one of Canada's most important literary presses. Over the past 36 years, Black Moss has published more than 300 titles including first books by a number of Canadian writers.

Milestones

2004 ... Black Moss celebrated its 35^th anniversary in Windsor with a series of events that attracted standing room only crowds. Two new series, Settlements and First Lines, were introduced to mark the anniversary.

2001... Black Moss introduced the Palm Poets series designed to make poetry to attract and more accessible to a wider audience.

1996... Black Moss brought authors from across Canada to Windsor to participate in workshops in elementary and secondary schools during the day and read to adults in the evening. The initiative laid the foundation for the Festival of the Book, now called Bookfest. Black Moss continues actively support Bookfest, an increasingly popular annual event that has been a driving force in raising the awareness of Canadian literature in the Windsor area.

1995... Black Moss published, Kids in the Jail, a book about young offenders that was used by parliamentarians when changes were made to the Young Offenders Act.

1995... Black Moss introduced the Shakespeare Can Be Fun series by Stratford writer and teacher Lois Burdett. Titles in the series are now sold across North America and around the world.

1995... Black Moss published That Sign of Perfection, an anthology of poetry focused on hockey as it is played on ponds, outdoor rinks and in community arenas across Canada. The publication set the stage for a series of anthologies that explored themes relevant to the everyday lives of Canadians.

1988... Black Moss published Scary Poems for Rotten Kids by sean ohuigan, selling more than 500,000 copies and beginning an initiative by the press to encourage poets to write children's literature, a first for a Canadian literary press.