Eventually, we are planning on eventually releasing everything from albums (and other musical projects) to novels, photobooks, poetry, works of non-fiction and more or less anything else that we can get our grubby little hands on. That said, at the moment most of our time and money is tied up in creating and printing (or otherwise manufacturing) the first few works by the Vagrants collective. However, this is only a hard-and-fast rule and we are open to being convinced by anything that is truly exceptional.

If you think this is you, probably the best thing to do is send a query letter to vagrants[at]amongruins[dot]org to have a chat about your project and/or ideas rather than just sending us unsolicited submissions.

Some things to bear in mind when contacting us:

• Everything we publish is released under Creative Commons licensing unless explicitly stated otherwise. This is something that you will have to be comfortable with if you want us to publish your work as it is pretty much non-negotiable.
• We are only interested in submissions that are chapbook-sized (around 30,000 words of prose) or larger. In practice, this means that we are interested in longer works and collections rather than individual short stories or poems. If you would like to submit an individual piece then please check our Upcoming Projects for a list of publications that are currently accepting submissions, or else direct your creative efforts towards SteamPunk Magazine.

As to the specifics, we are interested in publishing anything that falls within the boundaries of historical fantasy, steampunk or retro-futurism — or otherwise mixes the past, present and future in new and interesting ways. We are not interested in publishing anything that is racist, misogynistic, homophobic or supportive of the Empire. Conversely, we are especially interested in anything that pays particular attention to gender, race, sexuality, discrimination, privilege and prejudice. Not everything we publish will fall into that category — far from it — but it it is still something that is especially close to our hearts, and that we would like to see more of in the world.