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Small Presses
Whether you're pursuing the publication of your first book or your fifth, use our Small Presses database to research publisher interests, contact information, and submission guidelines.
| Small Press | Genres Published | Electronic Submissions? | Simultaneous Submissions? | Reading Period | Formats |
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 Matter PressMatter Press is a community-based, non-profit 501(c)(3) literary press that publishes an online literary journal (The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts), manages an annual short fiction and poetry chapbook contest, and supports a regular reading series. Matter Press offers internships to graduate MFA and Publishing students as submission readers, literary editors, and publication designers. Matter Press focuses on supporting emerging and established authors working with condensed forms of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and visual arts. |
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
Yes | Yes | Feb 1 - Apr 1 |
Paperback |
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Chapbook, Short story collections, Essay collections Flash Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry |
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 Mayapple PressMayapple Press is a small literary press founded in 1978 by poet and editor Judith Kerman. We focus on literature not often celebrated by either the mainstream or the avant-garde. This includes poetry which is both challenging and accessible; women’s writing; Great Lakes/Northeast literature; the immigrant experience; science fiction poetry; Jewish literature; and poetry in translation. |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
Yes | Yes | Jul 1 - Jul 31 |
Paperback E-book |
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Chapbook, Novella, Short story collections Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry, Regional |
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 McPherson & CompanyAn independent house since 1974, McPherson & Company publishes contemporary English and American fiction, 20th C. international fiction in translation, nonfiction in the areas of art theory, ethnography, and (rarely) belles lettres. We published the 2010 fiction winner of the National Book Award, Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon. |
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
Yes | No | Jan 1 - Dec 31 |
Paperback Hardcover E-book |
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Novella Literary Fiction |
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 Medusa's Laugh PressHand bound limited editions of poetry, fiction and thematic anthologies. |
Poetry, Fiction |
Yes | Yes | Jan 1 - Dec 31 |
Hardcover |
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Chapbook Autobiography/Memoir |
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 Midwest Writing CenterThe winners of the Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook contest will receive $100 and 15 copies of their published chapbook. |
Poetry | Yes | Yes | May 1 - Jul 31 |
Paperback |
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Chapbook |
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 Milkweed EditionsMilkweed Editions is one of the nation's leading independent, nonprofit literary publishers, releasing twelve to twenty new books each year in the genres of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In addition, we are one of two nonprofit presses that publish children’s literature. |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
Yes | Yes | Jan 1 - Dec 31 | |