Photo by: Dave Bledsoe, FreeVerse Photography

Welcome, and thank you for your interest in submitting to Augury Books. Our reading period will last between May 1, 2013 & June 30, 2013, and we have something special for you! For the first time, we are opening submissions in two categories: poetry manuscripts and short story collections.

Please read our guidelines for each category carefully, as manuscripts that do not adhere may not be considered. To submit your manuscript, click on the link at the bottom of the page. Use the same link for both categories; you will be prompted to choose your category on the next page.

Do not forget to upload your file on the submission form before completing the process! To return to this information anytime before June 30, bookmark our Submissions Page.

—Augury Books

GUIDELINES FOR FULL-LENGTH POETRY MANUSCRIPTS

We are seeking your best full-length poetry manuscripts for our 2013 poetry selection.

—Submissions are open to anyone.

—Manuscripts should be 45-80 pages.

—Page requirement does not include front and back matter (title page, table of contents, acknowledgements, notes, etc.).

—Please include a brief (under 300 words) bio in your Submittable cover note.

—Acceptable formats PDF, DOC and DOCX.

—Reading fee is $10.00 through Submittable (universal link below).

—Multiple submissions (meaning full poetry manuscripts) are accepted, but must be submitted separately with separate reading fees.

GUIDELINES FOR FULL-LENGTH SHORT-STORY COLLECTIONS

We are seeking your best short story collections for our 2013 fiction selection.

—Submissions are open to anyone.

—Manuscripts should be 80-180 pages in length.

—Collections should include a minimum of three short stories.

—Page requirement does not include front and back matter (title page, table of contents, acknowledgements, notes, etc.).

—Please include a brief (under 300 words) bio in your Submittable cover note.

—Acceptable formats PDF, DOC and DOCX.

—Reading fee is $10.00 through Submittable (universal link below).

—Multiple submissions (meaning more than one entire collection of short stories) are accepted, but must be submitted separately with separate reading fees.

Click Here to Submit Your Manuscript to Augury Books

All funds Augury Books receives through Submittable will go toward the title’s production fees and the maintenance of our catalogue. We are unable to accept manuscripts from international authors or offer royalties for accepted titles at this time. Complimentary copies will be available to authors of accepted titles.

Clear your calendars for the afternoon of Saturday, April 27, 2013, between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. for the Phoenix Reading Series at the 9 Bleecker Street Yippie! Museum and Cafe.

The winner of Augury’s 2012 Editors Prize, David Joel Friedman, will be reading as part of the Phoenix Reading Series, and we will be there, selling copies of his hot, new Soldier Quick with Rain (also currently available on our ORDERS page), sipping espresso and getting seriously into it.

Photo by: Dave Bledsoe, FreeVerse Photography

Augury Books is very happy to announce that we’ve been invited to this summer’s New York City Poetry Festival, hosted by the Poetry Society of New York and scheduled for July 27 & 28 on Governors Island.

However, the event’s Kickstarter campaign is in dire need of financial support or the event MIGHT NOT HAPPEN! Help keep the literary summer spirit alive—dig deep into your poetry coffers (everyone has those, right?) to see if there’s anything lurking down there.

Help support the New York City Poetry Festival here.

Augury’s launch party for our first books of 2013, Mantic by Maureen Alsop and Soldier Quick with Rain by David Joel Friedman, the winner of our Editor’s Prize, is just around the corner, and we hope you will come to help us celebrate putting these fine works out into the world.

Everything you need to know:

Who: Augury Books (Kate Angus, Kimberly Steele, Matt Cunha), presenting readers David Joel Friedman and Maureen Alsop

Why: New books, old friends, new friends, great poetry, drink specials that last ’til 9 p.m (and generally inexpensive drinks all night), gossip, weird haircuts (inevitable), mingling, celebration, support of small presses, happiness

When: Monday, February 25, 2013 at 6:30 p.m.

Where: Back room of Botanica Bar, 47 E Houston Street, New York, New York 10012, (b/w Mulberry St. & Greene St., near trains B, D, F, M, N, R, 4, 6)

What: Augury Books’ Launch Party 2013! Reading, book sale, drink specials, hanging out … You really should know this by now.

How: …. do you get in on the drink specials? Just tell the bartender your “Augury” password when you order.

Come at 6:30 to secure your copies of these fine books. The readings will begin at 7:00 p.m., and the rest of the evening is for drinking and socializing, so feel free to show up later to say hello and be among the first to own the latest additions to Augury’s catalogue.

If you haven’t already, RSVP on Facebook here.

We promise poetry readings, drink specials, friendly faces, handshakes, hugs and … did we mention NEW BOOKS? … all in the cozy back room of Botanica Bar on Houston Street in Manhattan at 6:30 p.m. You can RSVP to our Facebook invitation.

While you’re at it, Like us on Facebook to continue receiving updates, and, if you’re feeling really ambitious, you can follow this WordPress blog by clicking in the right corner below and stay informed that way.

We would also like to extend another mammoth and monolithic thank you to anyone and everyone who supported these books and other upcoming Augury endeavors during our Indiegogo campaign, be it with donations, word-of-mouth, moral support or good vibes. You are dazzling and darling individuals.

To pre-order Soldier Quick with Rain and Mantic, click here. RSVP to our book launch party on Facebook here.

“He’s become his favorite target. When
he sees himself coming, he feels for his
wallet with his left hand while the right
grabs his left by the wrist and calls for
the cop he’s been trying to avoid for so
long.”
— The Retired Pickpocket by Patrick Moran

Photographer: Josette Chen
Model: Stephanie Robalino
Stylist: Joshua MacLeod of Vesper Magazine
Producer: Dog & Pony

Augury Books is delighted to announce that David Joel Friedman is the winner of this year’s Editors’ Prize for his beautiful manuscript Soldier Quick with Rain. David is also the author of The Welcome, which was selected by Stephen Dunn for the 2004 National Poetry Series and published by University of Illinois Press. Recent poems by David can be seen in Barrow Street and on Poetry Daily.

We are also very happy to be publishing Maureen Alsop’s Mantic. Maureen is the author of Apparition Wren (Main Street Rag); her work has previously appeared in AGNI, Blackbird, Action Yes, Drunken Boat and The Kenyon Review. 

We are also thrilled to be partnering with Vesper Magazine for images.

Finalists for the 2012 Editors’ Prize are as follows:

Jeff Alessandrelli, You Can’t Discover the Lost Treasure if the Ship Didn’t Sink

Stephanie Anderson, From an Assumed Position

Bruce Covey, Change Machine

Nicholas Hite, Whichever Chain I Choose

Mark McKain, From Burnt Ground

Rachel Moritz, Borrowed Wave

Sarah Paley, Interior Soliloquys

Andrew Terhune, No Tee Vee

Lee Upton, Bottle the Bottles

We are happy to announce that we are extending the Editor’s Prize deadline until August 15th.

-The winner will receive a $750 honorarium and publication with Augury Books as well as 20 complimentary copies of the book. Additional copies can be purchased at a discounted price.

-This contest is open to anyone, except personal friends, colleagues or former students of the editors.

-Multiple submissions are accepted as long as each manuscript is submitted individually with separate reading fees.

-All entries will be considered for publication.

-Submit up 40-75 pages of poetry and an acknowledgments page. Please do not include a bio.

-Entry Fee: $20

We will accept submissions online through Submishmash at http://augurybooks.submishmash.com/Submit.

All money received will go directly towards the title and the maintenance of our catalog.

Unfortunately we will not be able to provide royalties to the winner beyond the honorarium.

We are unable to accept manuscripts from international authors at this time. Open to U.S. residents only.

These Great Sentinels

These great sentinels

have been here so much longer than you,

bare as January, January bees,

bare as rain or boats of commerce snarled

on the highly trafficked waterway,

as the bowsprit of the Dutch fishing pink

(one of many curious boats)

or the Malay rigging of the Bombay yacht

(another one of many curious boats)

and the lights along the turrets of the cliffs

along the harbor basin shined.

And Mrs. Hannah Glass set her cliffside house

in order. It was a house of glass.

And out above the water burst

the Roman candles of July,

the apple-green meister-singers,

the long fire of an open secret, aquatic trees,

and the cerulean brothers of Jupiter, of love.

And these great sentinels have torn

a page of strange remembrancy

from your endless calendar

to let the cool wind charm you

(the cool wind of July–for a fragrance

of jasmine drifted over from the palace, from the forest).

For each season has its delights,

as each key unlocks a door–but the key

does not tell you which door it opens,

nor in which building you will find it.

Geoffrey Nutter has written three books: A Summer Evening, Water’s Leaves & Other Poems, and Christopher Sunset. The Rose of January will appear in 2013 through Wave Books. He lives with his family in Upper Manhattan.