Would you like to send us your manuscript? Portage & Main Press and HighWater Press accept different kinds of submissions. Please read the descriptions below to help determine which imprint is the best fit for your submission.
Portage & Main Press
Since 1967, Portage & Main Press (PMP) has been publishing quality educational resources for teachers and students. Our authors are master educators, dedicated to the success of all learners. Our books – practical, yet based on solid theory and research – help teachers make real change in their classrooms and in the lives of their students.
Portage & Main Press seeks manuscripts that advance the goals of professional educators. Does this sound like your manuscript? Click here to read the full submission guidelines for Portage & Main Press.
HighWater Press
HighWater Press (HWP) books reflect a wide-ranging expression of Indigenous cultures and experiences. HWP develops and promotes unique voices that bring a new understanding of Indigenous peoples and communities, through their artists, to Canadian and international readers.
Does this sound like your manuscript? Click here to read the full submission guidelines for HighWater Press.
PMP PUBLISHES
Books that focus on collaborative, inclusive, project-based, inquiry-based best practices, books that are curriculum-based, and books that include Indigenous perspectives and knowledge.
PMP DOES NOT PUBLISH
Books outside the educational realm (including general fiction, children’s fiction, memoirs, poetry, and general nonfiction).
Student writing, dissertations, or personal journals.
For all submissions to Portage & Main Press:
To submit, please provide
All submissions should be provided in a standard, letter-size document in a regular 12-pt font. Email submissions should be sent as a PDF that conforms to these guidelines.
Include your name, address, and email address in your cover letter and on the manuscript.
If you are submitting your manuscript simultaneously to other publishers, please tell us in the cover letter.
Please do not submit an original copy of your manuscript, as manuscripts cannot be returned, and we cannot be responsible for unsolicited manuscripts. Likewise, do not submit original artwork or photographs.
Do not send your full manuscript. If we like your sample, we will contact you for more.
Please note that it may take from three to six months to respond to your query.
Submissions should be emailed to acquisitions@portageandmainpress.com or mailed to
Acquisitions Editor Portage & Main Press 100-318 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg, MBR3A 0A2
We regret that, due to the volume of queries received, we are unable to provide feedback or critiques of your work. Please make use of resources in your community, such as writers-in-residence at your local library, and writers’ groups for these purposes.
HWP PUBLISHES
HighWater Press exclusively publishes books written by Indigenous authors in the following categories
HWP DOES NOT PUBLISH
Poetry, natural history, dissertations or other scholarly works, self-help, how-to, or cookbooks. We are not interested in manuscripts written solely to convey a moral or lesson.
For all submissions to HighWater Press:
Submissions should be emailed to acquisitions@highwaterpress.com or mailed to
Acquisitions Editor HighWater Press 100-318 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg, MBR3A 0A2
We regret that, due to the volume of queries received, we are unable to provide feedback or critiques of your work. Please make use of resources in your community, such as writers-in-residence at your local library and writers’ groups, for these purposes.