FICTION
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
CHEERIO is looking for unusual, adventurous, ground breaking fiction with a strong literary bent and a dark heart.
We plan to publish two novels a year. If you would like to send your work for consideration, please submit your covering letter and three sample chapters to: info@cheeriopublishing.com
Please note we have a three month turn-around in replying to authors.
POETRY
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING POETRY SUBMISSIONS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
CHEERIO Poetry was founded and commissioned by Martha Sprackland. Since 2016 Martha has led Offord Road Books, and was previously assistant poetry editor for Faber & Faber. Martha has also worked in-house as acting poetry editor for long-running journal Poetry London and as an editor for Unbound, and has been a freelance editor for major publishers for the past decade.
Martha left CHEERIO in 2024 to focus on her translation work and her own writing, but leaves behind an astonishing list of poetry; three fizzing, fantastic debut collections by Sarah Fletcher, Kandace Siobhan Walker and Ali Lewis, and a stunning new collection from Poetry Unbound host, conflict negotiator and poet Pádraig Ó Tuama. Once we begin taking submissions for poetry again, we’ll be following in these established footsteps.
Francis Bacon wrote: The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. At CHEERIO, we hope the poetry on our list will continue to complicate; to pose questions it doesn't necessarily seek to answer; to bring close and entangle that which was previously separate. Above all, we want to read and champion good poetry; exciting and inventive poetry; poetry which deepens the mystery.
For any queries about our existing poetry list, please write to Lizzie on poetry@cheeriopublishing.com.