WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO
What does Monday Editions publish?
We are a curatorial, artisanal, gift-economy micropublisher of poetry chapbooks in limited editions.
What is the Monday Editions publishing model?
Our model gives authors the best of both traditional and independent publishing:
There is no submission fee, and the publisher pays all expenses, including the cost of the ISBN and the cost of shipping the book’s limited edition from the printer to the author.
The author receives fast, streamlined publication under a respected imprint, with industry-standard editorial, design, and production work.
The author retains copyright and all other rights to the book’s original written content.
The author has full control over the book’s marketing, sales, and distribution.
The author keeps 100 percent of proceeds from book sales.
This model distinguishes Monday Editions from vanity presses, hybrid presses, subscription-based presses, and self-publishing services. It also leaves us free to focus on ensuring that each book bearing our imprint meets the editorial and design standards that define Monday Editions.
How do I submit my manuscript to Monday Editions?
You don’t. We’ll find you—and we’re looking. (We make every effort to solicit work that will be a good fit for Monday Editions, but an invitation to send your manuscript is not a guarantee of publication.)
Our publishing program and book budgets are funded by paid Substack subscriptions. At this point, we expect to publish an average of one book per quarter but would be happy to expand. The more paid subscriptions, the more books.
OUR STAFF
X. P. Callahan, founder and publisher, is a poet, translator, and former editor at Random House, Knopf, McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, the University of Washington Press, and Stanford University Press. Her work has appeared in Rattle, Calyx, and One Sentence Poems, among other journals. The author of A Party of Another Kind, Black Shirt Emblazoned, Mortal Sugar: Poems in the Key of Lotería, and Agridulce, she has been writing the Diary Poems newsletter on Substack since 2022.
Waning Gibbous IV, executive editor, attended the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and completed the Columbia (formerly Radcliffe) Publishing Course. His late grandfather, Waning Gibbous Jr., is remembered as the author of two well-received collections, The Vicar’s Boneyard (1947) and O Lenticular Cloud of Sorrow (1958).
