Ghost peach press

Open Reading

The 2026 Ghost Peach Press open reading period will run from June 1, 2026 – October 1, 2026.

All manuscripts should include a title page, table of contents, and an acknowledgements page (if applicable). Manuscripts should be paginated and formatted in a pleasant-to-read font (as in, not comic sans), with no more than one poem per page. Manuscripts should consist of approximately 48 – 90 pages of poetry (not including front and back matter). 

Ghost Peach Press accepts the $12 reading fee exclusively through our Submittable page. This fee is due at the time of submission. Please email us at coatofbirdseditors@gmail.com if this fee causes a financial burden. 

We aim to send responses by spring 2027 and publication of the selected manuscript(s) is expected in early 2028.

GPP titles include: Laura Page, Dove and Coyote; Mirande Bissell, Stalin at the Opera; Gion Davis, Too Much; Loisa Fenichell, wandering in all directions of this earth (all available here); and Christen Noel Kauffman, The Science of Things We Can Believe (available for preorder here). Caroline Chavatel’s Consume Her and Rex Martin-Hawk’s Woman Until Further Evidence are forthcoming in 2026.