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We're kicking off 2025 with a call for manuscripts!

Beyond Borders Books is seeking fiction and nonfiction manuscripts! We are seeking stories or literature that transcend national, ethnic, and geopolitical boundaries— also known as “fronterizo literature.”

Our submission window for the 2025 calendar year is January 1-February 14, 2025. All submissions are fee free.

Fiction includes: novels and short story collections
Nonfiction includes: essay collections, history, and memoirs

For more information, visit our website at https://www.beyond-borders-books.com/manuscripts

Our post-election read! Join us on December 21 for a discussion of “The Persuaders” by Anand Giridharadas.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. Debates are framed in moralistic terms, with enemies battling the righteous. Movements for justice build barriers to entry, instead of on-ramps. Political parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the skeptical. And leaders who seek to forge coalitions are labeled sellouts.

The Persuaders is an insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens who are on the ground working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy. As the book’s subjects grapple with how to call out threats and injustices while calling in those who don’t agree with them but just might one day, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country.

Our inaugural volume of the Beyond Borders Literary Review features short fiction, poetry, essays, photographs, and art from creative artists in the United States and Mexico. In this eclectic volume, readers will discover works on cultural heritage, memory, and time.

Order | Beyond Borders Literary Review Order the inaugural issue of the Beyond Borders Literary Review.