Let’s work together
We are happy to publish your work!
Our vision & who we are
TILTTILTTILT exists to give readers affordable, tangible access to poetry, short stories, and other forms of written word from around the world. At the same time, we offer writers a way to get physical with their work — without the usual fuss, cost, or risk.
It’s important to understand what we are not: We’re not a print-on-demand service, and we’re not a self-publishing company. We’re an independent publisher with a clear vision and DIY by choice.
What CAN you expect from us?
We publish poetry, short stories, and experimental writing as high quality chapbooks. As a publisher, we curate what we print. Our format (chapbooks) and business model (minimal warehousing, direct sales) let us take creative risks with publishing work that sits at the edges of contemporary writing or has been forgotten by the mainstream.
If we accept your work:
We won’t take editorial control. Your words remain yours.
You keep all rights — we only receive a non-exclusive right to publish the chapbook.
We’ll collaborate on layout and cover design to make it look and feel right, inside our established framework.
We handle production, sales, and international shipping.
We pre-pay you for the agreed upon print run per copy we print. There are no running obligations.
If your chapbook turns out to be a hit, we’re happy to talk about taking it further — perhaps into a full-length book.