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We're flexible and have broad taste. Though most of our books in print are poetry chapbooks, we remain open to publishing anything the editor loves.
Currently closed to unsolicited manuscripts.
42 Miles Press publishes books and chapbooks of poetry, including the winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize. We’re in Indiana. We like images, we like language. We like it real and surreal and unreal.
The 42 Miles Press Poetry Award was created in an effort to bring urgent and original voices to the poetry reading public. The prize is offered annually to any poet writing in English, including poets who have never published a full-length book as well as poets who have published several. New and Selected collections of poems are also welcome.
Manuscripts submitted for the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award should exhibit an awareness of the contemporary “voice” in American poetry, an awareness of our moment in time as poets. We are excited to receive poetry that is experimental as well as work of a more formalist bent, as long as it reflects a complexity and sophistication of thought and language. Urgency, yes; melodrama, not so much. Our tastes are truly eclectic.
Ornithopter Press is an independent publisher of poetry that runs counter to the mainstream.
Does your work challenge literary norms? Are you excited by experimentation, inclusiveness, diversity? Do you have a manuscript that’s moved beyond the draft stage and feels complete? If so, Ornithopter Press might be right for you. Please read some of the work the press has published before you decide to submit.
Poetry, Short stories, novellas, pulp, comics, sci-fi, satire, essay, periodicals.
East French Press is interested in producing works of any size and scope; working together to make an imprint in print.
akinoga press is a Baltimore-based micro-press that specialzes in hand-bound chapbooks of a spacious/minimalist/austere flavor, though we're on the lookout for anything small, quiet, odd, and easily-missed.
We're also dedicated to creating a space for voices that need to be heard and works that 100% need to be read.
AKINOGA PRESS IS NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS/PROJECTS FOR CONSIDERATION
The next open consideration period will likely be some time in fall of 2021, but check back here (or akinogapress.com/submissions) for more details as things solidify.
We seek evocative, well edited poetry and literary narrative that addresses contemporary life and has lasting value. Our books represent the point of view of the authors and are beautiful objects themselves.
We award an annual Poetry Prize of $1000 and publication of a full length book. Prize submissions are due by October 18. https://redmountainpress.us/poetry-prize/
The Discovery Award is for a first book. Submissions due by September 20. Details at https://redmountainpress.us/discovery-aw...
Please use Times or Palatino, 12 pt font, 1.5 or double spaced, paginated, with ToC. Include accurate contact info, website, and a short cv. No glitz or gimmicks, please. We read prize submissions blind and try to reply to all submissions within two months.
Longship Press publishes the literary journal Nostos once each year. Through Nostos, we publish poetry, short fiction, and art usually on a theme. We hope to print several pieces by any one author in order to offer readers a sample of an author's voice, style, point of view, etc. Additionally, we publish chapbooks and full poetry collections by individual authors, including Meryl Natchez, Lisa Rappoport, David Rollison, and Terry Lucas.
Check the website www.longshippress.com for information regarding solicitations. Check the theme description especially.
Diode Editions is looking for poetry that excites and energizes, that uses language that crackles and sparks. We’re looking for poetry from all points on the arc, from formal to experimental (no light verse or erotic poetry, please). Simultaneous submissions are welcomed, but please notify us if they're accepted elsewhere. Diode does not accept previously published work. Submissions are welcome during contest periods. Check our website for contest dates. www.diodeeditions.com
Deerbrook Editions publishes well designed trade books. Is interested in imaginative and experimental literature, whether poetry or fiction, Deerbroook is a small press developing to do more of what we do leading to discovery of authors books. Our mission is to provide literature that is relevant and stimulating, to advocate and support authors by giving them a wider audience, and to connect authors and artists with their community. Deerbrook is a Fiscally Sponsored Project of Fractured Atlas.
Due to on-hand manuscripts, submissions are suspended indefinitely.
Please do not send your only copy as we will not return rejected manuscripts. Please enclose an SASE or postcard for acknowledgment of receipt. We recommend an organized, edited and proofread collection of poems, essays, short stories or a novella of 40 to 100 pages.
Approximately 50 pages is the least number of pages that can be perfect bound with a spine. Manuscripts that exceed 100 pages will have to be exceptional, especially fiction and non fiction. The manuscript should include publication credits/acknowledgments, and any relevant biographical information. For fiction, a synopsis is helpful.
FlowerSong Press nurtures essential verse from, about, and through the borderlands. Literary. Lyrical. Boundless.
