Anjali Mitter Duva
Galiot Press
My Manuscript Wish List®
I am an Indian American writer, editor, and publisher who was raised in France. I am a co-founder of Galiot Press, a new publishing house bringing more transparency, equity, accessibility, and sustainability to book publishing. I’m the author of the historical novel FAINT PROMISE OF RAIN, a former instructor at Grub Street Writers and fiction co-editor at Solstice Literary Magazine, and a co-founder of the Arlington Author Salon. In a prior life I was an urban infrastructure planner and project manager.
Submission Guidelines
We release query spots every week based on our availability. This ensures that our staff maintains a balanced workload, and therefore that we can reply in a timely manner to every single query. This is how we can predict and plan our workload and respect your time as well.
(You’ll see our calendar for query submissions below. We rotate the timing of when we release query spots. Note that when you click on an available date, it will show a time of 11:59pm. This is not indicative of the time when we will read your query. We will read your query and respond to it by the end of the workday on that week’s Friday.)
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You may click to select the Tuesday of a query week any time once the link is live, up to 11:59 pm that day.
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When you book a spot, you’ll receive a private link to upload your query letter and your writing sample of the first 10 pages of your manuscript. You have until 8:00am that Wednesday to do so.
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Please do not share this link with anyone. If we find that anyone other than you has used this link, we will not consider that person’s work, or yours at any point in time.
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Queries submitted by the deadline will receive a response by the end of the day the Friday of the query week.
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If we wish to see more work from you, we’ll provide a clear overview of how we work and ask you to agree to our process.
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You’ll be required to send in your requested manuscript by that very next Monday. Please do not send us your query if you are not ready to send a manuscript by then.
Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
#ownvoices, 1800s+ historical, Accessible Literary Fiction, Activism, Adult, Adverse Childhood Experiences, African Diaspora, Artificial Intelligence, Asian American Literature, Asian Diaspora, BIPOC, Book Club, Books about books, Caribbean Literature, Climate Fiction, Commercial Women's Fiction, Commercial adult fiction, Complicated Relationships, Contemporary Culture, Cultural Criticism, Dark Humor, Diversity, East Asian Literature, Ecology, Ensemble Casts, Environment, Epistolary, Essay collections, Family Drama, Female Friendships, Feminism, First Person, Found Families, Historical Fiction, Humor, Hybrid, Immigrant Voices, LGBTQ+, Latine Diaspora, Literary Crossover, Literary Fiction, Mental Health, Minority Voices, Multicultural, Muslim, Novels in Verse, Own Voices, POC, Relationships, Short Stories, South Asian, Southern Fiction, Southern Literary, Strong Females, Sustainability, Travel, Underrepresented Voices, Women's Fiction, bilingual, books in translation, character-focused fiction, character-focused stories, comedy, coming of age, contemporary, creatures, current affairs, diverse, diverse and own voices, eco-fiction, family saga, family stories, friendship, international, literary, migration, narrative non-fiction, non-Western historical fiction, non-western settings, nonfiction, novella, queer, weird fiction, whimsical, witty
I’d like the next…
At Galiot, I’m looking for novels, links short story collections, memoir, and creative non-fiction for an adult audience. I’m especially interested in books and stories that present many facets of complex, interrelated communities and worlds, perhaps revealing surprising aspects or shifting our perspective of them. She is interested in the underlying fabric of places, the networks–tangible and not–that hold them together or, in some cases, tear them apart. Books that bring in influences from other languages and cultures are a plus.
