Welcome to Choeofpleirn Press! 

Our name is pronounced chuf-plern and roughly means "the chief place of rest," but it is a word we coined by alternating the letters of our surnames. 

We are a literary press located in northeastern Kansas at the foot of the Glacial Hills. 

Because we only received one small grant in the four years we have published magazines, we are putting our magazine publication on hiatus for 2025.

We are still hosting two book contests in 2025, however. Our Jonathan Holden Poetry Chapbook Contest, from January 1 through April 30, and our Kenneth Johnston Nonfiction Book Contest, from September 1 through December 31.

All work submitted to Choeofpleirn Press must be original work by the person submitting it. We do not publish written works created with AI programming, which the U.S. Copyright Office has deemed non-copyrightable. Images transformed with digital programming, such as Photoshop, are still acceptable, however.

Submission of your work to Choeofpleirn Press means you are allowing us to print and copyright your work. Realize, though, that writers retain their ownership of their works, but, if a portion of the book we publish is republished elsewhere, we ask that you acknowledge Choeofpleirn Press as your work's first publication. 

If you have questions about submitting manuscripts, please email us at ChoeofpleirnPress@gmail.com. 

If you have not heard back from us within 48 hours of your submission, you need to contact us to ensure that we have gotten your work because sometimes submissions are sent to Spam, and we can inadvertently overlook or accidently delete a submission within the Spam folder.

Annual Submission Deadlines

Choeofpleirn Press LLC, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, embraces diversity because diversity strengthens humanity’s ability to deal with the issues facing us. The editors have worked in intercultural fields in higher education previously, so understand the importance of meeting diverse readers' needs through accepting brilliant works of literature and art by writers of diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As writers, the editors of Choeofpleirn Press realize how challenging it can be to get individual works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, one-act plays, and screenplays published, so we decided to create separate literary magazines that highlight each of the longer genres--fiction, nonfiction, and drama--in combination with art and poetry, in order to promote those works more effectively. 

We create coffee table quality print and ebook magazines, blurring the boundaries between literary magazines and books, that are boldly colorful, unlike most traditional literary press publications, to invite readers into the stories, essays, poetry, and drama through stunning artwork images. We also publish quality print and digital poetry and nonfiction books. 

Our goal is to get as much great literature and art in the hands of everyday readers as possible.