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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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 Pecan Grove PressWe publish new and emerging poets and enjoy both free verse and skillfully written formal verse. We are especially interested in new writers and have, on occasion, published student writers. |
Poetry | No | Yes | Jan 1 - Dec 31 | |
 Persea BooksPERSEA BOOKS is an independent, literary publishing house founded in 1975 by Michael Braziller and Karen Braziller, who still own and direct the company. Over the past decades, Persea has produced hundreds of engaging and consequential books. The aim of the press is to publish works that endure by meeting high standards of literary merit and relevance. We have often taken on important books other publishers have overlooked, or have made significant discoveries and rediscoveries, whether of a single work or writer's entire oeuvre. |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
Yes | Yes | Jan 1 - Dec 31 |
Paperback Hardcover E-book |
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Short story collections, Essay collections, Novel, Memoir, Poetry collections |
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 Perugia PressPerugia Press publishes one collection of poetry each year, by a woman at the beginning of her publishing career (first and second books). Our mission is to produce beautiful books that interest long-time readers of poetry and welcome those new to poetry. |
Poetry | Yes | Yes | Aug 1 - Nov 15 |
Paperback |
 Philistine PressWe are a non-profit publisher of free ebooks. We’re here to publish material that wouldn’t ordinarily be published by mainstream presses or accepted by the literary establishment. There are many adjectives we could use to describe ourselves – original, experimental, uncompromising – but the best way to understand Philistine Press is to read our work. |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
Yes | Yes |
E-book |
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Chapbook, Novella, Short story collections, Essay collections, Novel, Memoir, Poetry collections |
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 Plan B PressPlan B Press encourages, captures, presents and preserves contemporary poetry by publishing and presenting emerging poets. A small independent publishing company that primarily produces high-quality, limited-run poetry chapbooks. We have also created two short fiction collections and four full-length books. |
Poetry, Fiction |
Yes | Yes | May 1 - Nov 30 |
Paperback |
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Chapbook, Poetry collections Cross-genre |
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Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary PressWe use three imprints in addition to Pleasure Boat Studio. These are Caravel Books, for mysteries and crime fiction; Aequitas Books, for non-fiction with a sociological or philosophical theme; and Empty Bowl, for Eastern and ecological works.We do our best to publish work that is as strong as we can find. We are particularly interested in multi-cultural and quirky. |
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
Yes | Yes | Jan 1 - Dec 31 |
Paperback E-book |
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Chapbook, Novella, Short story collections, Essay collections Experimental, Feminist, Humor, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Regional, Translation |
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