Manuscripts
Submit your manuscript
We read submissions once a year, from April 1, 2026 to June 15, 2026, and we answer every one of them: including when the answer is no.
Submissions are read by two people in the editorial team, not by outside readers: whoever reads is whoever decides, and whoever decides is whoever writes back. That is why the timings are the ones set out below, and not a week.
We publish twelve titles a year. That means we say no to almost everything we read, and that a no is not a verdict on your book: it is the measure of what we can genuinely look after, with the editing, the printing and the bookshops a book deserves.
If your manuscript interests us we write to you early and ask for the full text. That is where the conversation starts — the structure, the cuts, the time it will take — and nothing is signed before it.
How it works
From your submission to our answer
Three steps, the same for everyone: no submission jumps the queue, and none needs an introduction.
You send the submission
You fill in the form below: who you are, the work, a synopsis and the file of the manuscript or of an extract.
Two of us read it
When the window closes, every submission goes to two readers in the editorial team. The ones that convince us go to a second reading, and for that we ask you for the full text.
We answer
Within eight weeks of the window closing you receive a written answer, yes or no. Nobody is left waiting on silence.
Outside the window the form stays open: your submission joins the queue for the next opening, so it is not lost, but it is not read any earlier.
Guidelines
What we look for, what we need
Three series, each with a precise idea of what a book is. If yours fits none of the three, we are probably not the right house — and saying so here saves you a wait.
- Fiction
- Novels and short stories in Italian. First books are welcome: half the catalogue is made of debuts.
- Non-fiction
- Non-fiction with an argument and a voice, written for readers outside the field. We do not publish academic theses as they are.
- Poetry
- Collections already put in order, not single poems. Two titles a year: the smallest series, and the hardest.
What to send
- A half-page synopsis with the whole plot, ending included: not the blurb.
- The title, even a provisional one, and the genre you see the book in.
- Two lines about you, and about what you have written before, if you have.
- The manuscript or an extract as an attachment, in formats that open on any desk.
What we do not read
- Books already published, self-published ones included, unless agreed beforehand.
- Manuscripts in any language other than Italian: we have nobody to read them.
- Master's and doctoral theses not rewritten as books.
- Children's books, manuals and guides: they are not our trade.
The form
Send your submission
Three groups of fields, and the synopsis is the only one that takes time. If you would rather use e-mail, the submissions address is proposte@scenariedizioni.it.