SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The University Press of Mississippi is a nonprofit publisher that serves an academic and general audience. We receive approximately 600 submissions and publish an average of 60 manuscripts a year. Our editorial program focuses on the following areas:

Scholarly and trade titles in African American studies; American studies, literature, history, and culture; art and architecture; biography and memoir; ethnic studies; film studies; folklore and folk art; health; memoir and biography; military history; music; natural sciences; performance; photography; popular culture; reference; Southern studies; sports; women's studies; other liberal arts. Special series: Special series: American Made Music; Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History; Conversations with Comic Artists; Conversations with Filmmakers; Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha; Great Comic Artists; Hollywood Legends; Literary Conversations; Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies; Southern Icons; Studies in Popular Culture; Understanding Health and Sickness; Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography.

Submissions

If you have a manuscript appropriate to our publishing program that you would like us to consider, we ask that you first submit a proposal. Your proposal should include the following:

• An overview of the project (approx. 2,500 words), explaining how your work will fit into, and add to, current literature on the subject, and which makes clear the project's central argument
• A chapter outline, with roughly 400 words devoted to each chapter. For scholarly monographs and single-author nonfiction, the outline must show how the chapters build cohesively on each other to support the argument. For a proposed essay collection, the outline should include an overview of the volume's introduction, an abstract of each of the essays, and a list of the contributors and their affiliations. Again, the outline should show how they all connect to the subject of the book.
• One or two completed chapters or essays
• Anticipated length of the manuscript (in words), and the anticipated date of completion
• Preliminary bibliography
• The number and type of illustrations, if any
• A résumé or curriculum vitae

Photography Submission Guidelines

If you have a photography project appropriate to our publishing program that you would like us to consider, we ask that you first submit a proposal. Your proposal should include the following:

• An overview of the project (two to three pages), explaining why you chose these particular photos and how they will work together to create a book. You should also describe the text sections of the book (introduction, essays, etc.) and explain how they will contribute to the project.
• Sample photographs (digital or prints)
• One or two sample text sections
• Anticipated length of the book (word count and number of photographs; specify color and/or b&w), and the anticipated date of completion
• A résumé or curriculum vitae

Thank you for your interest in the University Press of Mississippi.