Off the Grid Press was founded in the fall of 2005 to provide a forum for older, previously published poets who have been overlooked by the current marketplace. OTG offers an alternative publishing model that combines valuable features of traditional publishing and publishing cooperatives.
Manuscripts are evaluated and selected by our editors, Tam Lin Neville and Bert Stern, whose editorial vision and expertise assure the quality and distinct identity of the OTG imprint. There are no contests, reading fees, or prescreening by non-editors. We plan to publish one or two books per year.
Rather than finance the press through contest fees, we ask the writer to bear the cost of book design, printing, and distribution. The money the poet might spend covering the bases of book contests goes instead directly to the production of the book. All proceeds from book sales go to the author.
Once a manuscript is chosen, the editors work closely with the author in editing it for publication. Authors work directly with the designer in creating a book that embodies the spirit of the text. The press provides administrative assistance with publication, and promotes and sells the book on our website and in other venues.
Those submitting manuscripts should be over sixty years old and have already published at least one book of poems or five or more poems in three or more nationally distributed literary magazines. If your poetry, however innovative, honors the work of Keats, Yeats, Stevens, Dickinson, Whitman, Williams, and Reznikoff as well as Szymborska, Neruda, Rilke, and Akhmatova, we invite your submission. See our submissions guidelines for more detailed information.
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