This is the gold standard traditional approach to publishing, which has been the backbone of the work we have done since 1984, whereby an author or their agent approaches us, or we approach them, and if both parties agree, a traditional publishing contract is signed - whereby the publishing company pays the writer, and undertakes the full costs and risks of production: the gold standard Eyewear/Black Spring model. 

You do not need an agent to submit to us, we know how important it is to keep an open door policy. So many presses nowadays only read work sent by agents, or by famous writers. As a small press run by writers and creatives, we want to be different. We distribute our books worldwide, especially in the UK and Republic of Ireland and the USA. BSPG seeks to balance the reality that we cannot read thousands of submissions a year easily, with the need to give every budding author a chance, since the history of publishing is replete with rejected geniuses who deserved better.

Note: in the past we worked with a few talented writers on co-operative hybrid projects, under an entirely separate imprint, Maida Vale; historically, there was also Dexter Haven limited, a separate publishing company that Black Spring ran. The DH imprint is closed, and Maida Vale is no longer taking on new writers. We hope this will clarify our ongoing focus on our traditional imprints. Maida Vale the imprint has some excellent books and will continue to support its list of books. Please note many presses have hybrid imprints, and we continue to think this model was a good way to support certain unusual, very original, maverick and eccentric visions and voices.