McClelland & Stewart

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Who is McClelland & Stewart and what genre of books do they publish?

McClelland & Stewrat is an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada and strives to take bold risk that push the boundaries of litrary excellence. They accept submissions from Black, Indigenous, and racialized writers, as well as those of other traditionally underrepresented communitites.

Genre: Poetry, literary fiction, and nonfiction.

Word count: 80,000 to 100,000 words for fiction and nonfiction. For poetry, they accept submissions of 7,000 to 10,000 words.

Is McClelland & Stewart accepting submissions at the moment?

If you’d like to know if McClelland & Stewart is accepting manuscript submissions in March 2026, please head over to my publishers page where you can view publishers by genre or location.