University of Missouri Press Submissions Guidelines

The University of Missouri Press prefers a letter inquiring about manuscript submission. Generally, we request a brief summary of the proposed project, as well as some descriptive data on the author. In general, a letter of inquiry, addressed to Mr. Clair Willcox (acquiring editor) at 2910 LeMone Blvd., Columbia, MO 65201, will be responded to within a couple of weeks.

Our chief areas of publishing emphasis are American history, political philosophy, journalism, and literary criticism with a primary focus on American and British literature. We are, though, glad to receive inquiries from almost any area of work in the humanities.

Note: We do not publish poetry, original novels, or fiction although we do publish creative nonfiction.