-          Please familiarise yourself with the work on this site before submitting. 

-          At the present time we are primarily interested in receiving book-length fiction submissions - novels, novellas and short story collections - not individual short stories.   Non-fiction submissions will also be considered if they sit well alongside our other releases.   

-          Submissions are accepted by email only – please send your work to philistinepress@gmail.com.  Write the word “Submission” and the title of the work in the subject box.  Write a short description of the work in your email.

-          We are interested in original, unconventional work that does not fit comfortably into any one genre.  We are not opposed to genre fiction – crime, sci-fi, fantasy, etc – but if you are submitting this kind of fiction, we want you to do something new with the genre, not just echo what has gone before.  The same applies for literary fiction, which in many ways is a genre in itself.   

-          If you are submitting text, please submit the complete book or collection in one file attachment – preferably .doc or .rtf. 

-          If you are submitting audio, please attach two or three mp3 or wav files as samples – not the complete collection or album. 

-          Please be aware that if your work is accepted for publication, it will be made available on this site for free, and you will not be paid for your efforts, other than through voluntary donations.  If you’d prefer to actually make money from the venture (and we can’t blame you for that), please submit it to a publisher that pays! 

-          Potential contributors are welcome to a donation on the understanding that it will not increase or decrease your chances of appearing on the site.