We aren’t hosting an open call this year (2022—2023), but you can learn about our open call from last year below.
3 Hole Press is thrilled to announce our first open submission period, from April 1st through May 30th of 2021.
We are seeking a new title for publication that embodies our mission statement: 3 Hole Press is a home for performance in book form and everyday life. We publish titles that expand our understanding of being together.
The selected manuscript will be published in late 2021 or early 2022, and its author will be paid an honorarium of $1,000. The guest judges for this year’s open call are Agnes Borinsky and Aleshea Harris.
To submit, please send us a finished manuscript, as well as a brief description of the project, and a short bio or artist statement. We welcome any works—plays, performance texts, novels, essays, hybrid genres, and other forms—that are primarily meant to be read. While we were founded to support experimental playwrights, we value liveliness on the page, intimacy and collaboration with a reader, and an interrogation of the relationship between language and change, over loyalty to any one discipline. Before submitting, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with the books we have published so far. Submissions by individuals and collaborators are both welcome.
All submissions go through our Submittable page, where you can find further details about submitting. Feel free to check our FAQs below. Additional questions about the submission process can be directed to our publisher, Mary Marge Locker, at mml@3holepress.org.
We can’t wait to read your work.
ABOUT THE JUDGES
Agnes Borinsky is a writer, based in Los Angeles. She has written many plays, including, Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8, available from 3 Hole Press. In 2020 she convened the Working Group for a New Spirit at the Bushwick Starr. She is also the author of Sasha Masha, a YA novel.
Aleshea Harris’s epic western revenge play Is God Is (world premiere directed by Taibi Magar at Soho Rep) won the 2016 Relentless Award, an OBIE award for playwriting, the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. What to Send Up When It Goes Down, a ritualized response to anti-blackness, had its critically-acclaimed NYC premier (dir. Whitney White, produced by The Movement Theatre Company), then toured D.C. and Boston in fall of 2019, was featured in American Theatre Magazine’s April ’19 issue and won a rare Special Commendation from the 2020 Blackburn Prize. Harris was awarded the Next Step Award from Samuel French and is a recipient of the 2020 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, the 2020 Mimi Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize.
FAQs
Is there a fee to submit?
No!
What are the page-length requirements?
We request a minimum of 40 pages.
Must the manuscript be finished?
Yes!
How many times can I submit?
One time.
Are simultaneous submissions accepted?
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please contact us or withdraw your manuscript via Submittable if it is accepted elsewhere.
Can excerpts of this work have been published?
Yes. Though you must be the copyright holder of the work.
Should I include my name on the manuscript?
Yes. Our reading process is not anonymous. We are excited to learn more about you through your short bio/artist statement and will consider it alongside your work.
What is the selection process?
Each submission and its supplemental materials will be read by multiple members of the 3 Hole team, and finalists will be evaluated by our guest judges, 3 Hole artists Agnes Borinsky and Aleshea Harris. All decisions will be final.
How can I read other 3 Hole books to find out if my work is a good fit?
Physical copies and $5 digital downloads of our titles are available in our bookshop. Our books are also carried in many libraries.
When will I hear back?
By fall, 2021.
Can I ask for feedback if my manuscript was rejected?
Because of our limited staff, we will not be able to provide individual feedback on submissions.
Who should I write to if I have more questions?
Please write to Mary Marge at mml@3holepress.org.
Who made this lovely gif and does all your graphic design?
Alice Chung!