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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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 Pearl EditionsWe primarily publish the winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize, our annual book competition. We look for distinctive voices, well-crafted collections, and favor accessible lyric or narrative poetry. |
Poetry | No | Yes | May 1 - Jun 30 |
Paperback |
 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 | |
 Pen-L PublishingAre you looking for a good read? Fiction or nonfiction, our books will tickle the imagination and tantalize the mind. |
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction |
Yes | Yes | Jan 1 - Dec 31 |
Paperback E-book |
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Novella, Short story collections, Novel Commercial Fiction, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Narrative Nonfiction, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, War |
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 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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