A manuscript send to an editor or publisher without it being requested. Unsolicited manuscripts normally end up on the slush pile.

a book, article, story or poem submitted by a writer without the publisher's having requested it

an article, story or book which the publisher or editor did not ask for.

Manuscript sent to a publisher who did not request it.

A manuscript that can't sell because it includes too few salacious solicitations.

Any manuscript submitted to a publishing house in the absence of an earlier specific request from an editor to do so. See also MANUSCRIPT READER OVER-THE-TRANSOM SLUSH

An article, story or book that a publication did not request. Go back to top

A manuscript sent to an editor or agent without being requested by the editor/agent.