Open Books Press is dedicated to publishing quality books. When we're open for submissions, we accept adult nonfiction, and fiction for all ages (including some YA and children's). All authors with exceptional work will be given serious consideration.

Saint Julian Press as a literary and educational organization embraces a vision to create a local and worldwide community, by engaging in a literary and artistic dialogue that promotes world peace, cultural conversations, and an interfaith awareness, appreciation, and acceptance. In our mission as a new literary imprint we hope to identify, encourage, nurture, and share transformative literature and art of both past and living masters. While giving new and emerging artists, poets, and writers a place they may come home to and share their work.

Tidal Press is an independent publishing house with the following mission: To offer readers beautifully crafted works of fiction and non-fiction from writers who use authentic and unique voices to weave the elemental themes of our modern lives into great stories. 

Creators Publishing launched in 2006, and since then we have published more than 180 collection books and original manuscripts under three imprints. Our mission is to find unique voices that ignite readers with their words. We believe that the written word is what connects humanity and we seek to publish stories that strengthen that connectedness. We look for authors that are passionate about their work, technologically savvy, collaborative, self-motivated, and aware of their niche audience.

Deep Vellum Publishing was founded in 2013 with the mission to bring the world into conversation through publishing literature from around the world, while organizing literary programs and discussions, and advocating for the vital role of the literary arts in Dallas and beyond.

Regal House seeks works of literary fiction, historical fiction, memoirs, short story collections, and poetry collections. Our imprint Fitzroy Books publishes Young Adult, New Adult, and Middle Grade fiction; our imprint Pact Press publishes fiction, poetry, short story collections that feature themes such as racism, discrimination, homelessness, social justice, immigration, religious and gender issues, as well as LGBTQIA concerns. Pact Press also published a series of anthologies, the net proceeds of which benefit charitable organizations. 

For 2019 we are seeking poetry and hybrid prose/poetry collections and collections of short stories or lyric essays. I’d like to see more poems that gather in with “long arms,” to borrow Ellen Bass’ description of Frank X. Gaspar’s work, and more somatic awareness, like Ire’ne Lara Silva’s Blood Sugar Canto.

Poetry of social protest. I like poetry that "misappropriates" ancient spiritual wisdom. I like risque poetry. Think Neruda, Lorca. I like troubled lives that heal.

“The Library is a sphere whose exact center is any hexagon and whose circumference is unattainable,” states Jorge Luis Borges in his tale of sacred geometry and information science, The Library of Babel. It may be said that we take as our starting point this exact center, focusing arbitrarily yet intently on any hexagon which presents itself to our mundane perceptions, and expanding upon the disorientation extracted therefrom until nothing is left of language but its abstract scaffolding...