Untraditional Memoir

Slant’d is an independent AAPI publishing house committed to creating space to publish the original works of storytellers across the diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander diaspora in an otherwise white-dominated publishing industry.

Guidelines

  • Similar to our literary magazine, we will only accept work from AAPIs. This includes mixed-race Asians and adoptees and folks who were not born in the U.S., but have been here long enough to consider themselves American.
  • We accept agented-queries and strongly encourage un-agented writers and artists to submit their proposals.
  • We only accept original story ideas and strongly support debut writing (but published authors are welcomed here!). We do not accept proposals for books that have already been self-published. We ask for FNASR (first North American Serial Rights).

  • We have an open submission policy (i.e., there is no submission window). Our Editorial Committee will convene 2x/year to review proposals. All submissions must be in English and submitted digitally through our submissions platform. We will not accept unsolicited submissions via email.
  • Simultaneous submissions are okay as long as you notify us immediately if the manuscript is accepted by another publisher.

What is an untraditional memoir?

We define untraditional memoirs as those which break out of the conventional prose narrative memoir and offer alternative formats. Some examples: graphic novel memoirs (e.g., The Best We Could by Thi Bui, Good Talk by Miira Jacob, Fun Home by Alison Bechdel); cookbook memoirs (e.g., Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home by Eric Kim); illustration/ typography/ photography-based memoirs (e.g., Hold Still by Sally Mann, My Inner Sky by Mari Andrew, and I Always Think It's Forever by Timothy Goodman).

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Please familiarize yourself with our editorial vision, submission guidelines, and FAQs before submitting your proposal.

If you resonate with our mission and editorial vision, we encourage you to submit your work for consideration. We especially want to co-create with AAPI writers and artists who identify as disabled, neurodivergent, trans and LGBTQIA+, are over the age of 30, without an MFA, are unagented, or without professional / career training in the arts.

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