Hi Giovanna
Well, we tend to publish "slipstream" and in many ways I don't know what that is until I see it!
Generally, I publish what I like - and that's what excites me: a story that makes me want to read it over and again, and one which I feel some "connection" with. The word "slipstream" has been used on and off - in the context that I refer to it - within the UK independent press since the mid-80's, and is usually meant to imply a fiction which may contain elements of the fantastic, but where the story itself is grounded in reality and where characters are more important than plot. This is a sweeping generalisation, one which a lot of people - probably even the authors I've published - might disagree with, and which, in many ways, is a coverall for almost every type of story published. Despite that, it's still the term I'm most comfortable with as a writer and publisher.
Yet, we have published collections of almost pure-literary fiction, we've done horror, we'll be doing a lot of SF next year, and all the other genres inbetween. What I will say is that a lot of the books we've published wouldn't have been published by some of the other publishers because they're not genre-specific enough.
The quote you've mentioned comes from Allen Ashley's guidelines for Subtle Edens, and whilst we generally agree on what slipstream is, for this book "slipstream" will be what Allen feels it to be - and like me, will probably be something that he can only define once he's read it.
I'm not sure if that's an answer to the question. Best thing if you're thinking of submitting, is to read some of the stuff we've published, and to send the submission over. We'll soon tell you whether we think it's slipstream or not
