Golden Antelope Press

Golden Antelope Press is a small press operated in conjunction with, or spun off from, its sister presses, the more scholarly Blazing Sapphire and Naciketas Presses.

We have published forty-five books as a small press, based out of Kirksville MO. We have published, novels, novellas, collections, short stories, drama, and poetry. Our wonderful authors range from retirees with a dozen works of writing under their belts to first time authors, starting their journeys.

Graphic design was admirably accomplished by Russell (Rusty) Nelson, professor of graphic design at Truman State University. We took on interns, and started getting scholar and writer friends to help us evaluate manuscripts and offer advice.

Golden Antelope Press started in 2004 with a novella by the editor’s mother, Vivian Delmonico: I’ll Be Seeing You.  The name of the press, Golden Antelope, is mainly a reference to one of the great Indian epics, the Ramayana.  The pursuit of a beautiful golden antelope drew the hero, Rama, away from his lovely wife Sita, and allowed the villain to kidnap her. 

Neal and Betsy Delmonico are the owners and operators of this press.  Neal created Golden Antelope as a sister press to Blazing Sapphire Press which does works from and about India–including bilingual Sanskrit classics–and to Naciketas Press, which does non-fiction and publishes the Missouri Folklore Society Journal.

When she retired from teaching in 2016, Betsy became the primary editor and proofreader for Golden Antelope. By then, the three presses had a plan, and a history, and something new–manuscripts sent by wonderfully talented strangers.

We’re open to receive new submissions about half of each year (generally April- November) but the window closes for several months while we sort through the wealth and chose our sapphires and diamonds.

What we ask for is an email to ndelmoni@gmail.com or bestydelmonico@gmail.com describing your project or manuscript and including a sample of approximately 20 pages. We publish poetry, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, and creative non-fiction. So tell us what you have and let your sample speak for you. If we are interested we will contact you and ask to see the full ms (doc or docx is fine). If we are not interested, we will let you know as soon as possible.

For further publication details, please visit the “submissions” page by clicking the button below.