Publishing with UNC Press

This information should help you decide if UNC Press is an appropriate publisher for your manuscript, and if so, what a proposal should include and to whom you should send it.


UNC Press publishes nonfiction books for academic and general audiences. We have a special interest in trade and scholarly titles about our region. We do not, however, publish fiction, poetry, drama, memoirs, or festschriften.

A book proposal should include the following items: a cover letter, an abstract, a table of contents, and a c.v. If you would like these materials returned, be sure to include a self-addressed, stamped envelope, as our policy is to recycle proposal materials after consideration. We welcome your proposal and will respond to your inquiry as promptly as possible.

  • If the subject of your manuscript is history, regional trade, or Civil War studies, please send your proposal to David Perry, Editor-in-Chief (David_Perry@unc.edu).
  • If the subject of your manuscript is American history, European history, law and legal studies, classics, political or social science, or business and economic history, please send your proposal to Charles Grench, Senior Editor (Charles_Grench@unc.edu).
  • If your topic is gender studies, please send your proposal to Kate Torrey, Director (Kate_Torrey@unc.edu).
  • If your manuscript subject is religious studies, Latin American studies, folklore, anthropology or general trade, please send your proposal to Elaine Maisner, Editor (Elaine_Maisner@unc.edu).
  • If your topic is American studies, African American studies, literary studies, media studies, cultural studies, social medicine, or Appalachian studies, please send your proposal to Sian Hunter, Editor (Sian_Hunter@unc.edu).
  • If you want to suggest a book that might be reprinted in paperback, please send your proposal to the appropriate subject editor.
  • The Press welcomes proposals for electronic publishing projects. Please address them to Mark Simpson-Vos, Editorial Department (Mark_Simpson-Vos@unc.edu).

University of North Carolina Press
P.O. Box 2288
Chapel Hill, NC 27515-2288
Fax: 919-966-3829


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