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.

JackLeg is a literary press dedicated to the writers we serve and the readers we cherish. We publish all forms of literature, including poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, and plays. We use an environmentally sustainable publishing model and a rigorous editorial process to bring the best new and familiar voices into the literary world.

We value energy and voice and force, work that crosses borders or effaces them completely, work that enters into larger social conversations, work that lives in the world, work with calloused hands and a half-empty stomach. We think poetry is and ought to be part of our everyday lives and culture.

We are an annual chapbook contest for any genre of writing, including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, plays, and hybrid/cross-genre/multi-genre work. We are open to submissions from anyone who has not published (or self-published) a full-length collection, defined as a work of over 50 pages. We are affiliated with Northern Arizona Book Festival, a 501(c) nonprofit; all proceeds help to run the press or go to the book festival and its affiliates.

This year's contest will award $250 to the winner of the annual chapbook contest. Please see complete rules at the website.

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.

At this time the annual Poetry Prize and the Discovery Award are suspended. 

Transit Books is a nonprofit publisher of international and American literature, based in Oakland, California. Founded in 2015, Transit Books is committed to the discovery and promotion of enduring works that carry readers across borders and communities. Transit Books publishes a carefully curated list (6-8 titles per year) of award-winning literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, essay, and prose that falls somewhere in between.

Ornithopter Press is an independent publisher of poetry that runs counter to the mainstream.

We are a small press committed to the discovery of writing that transcends the ordinary. We believe in developing and encouraging the creative writing voice in our journal, in the press, and throughout communities. It’s our desire to enrich the world through publishing people, and their stories, their poems, and their books with the hope that they move, inspire, invite, create, empower and more.

Though not our only interest, we have a strong like for poetry of place and the relationship between lives and landscapes. Most importantly, we seek an economy of language with a keen focus on voice and image. We like a touch of Lorca’s duende that loves ledges and wounds, Kant’s “crooked timber of humanity.”