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.” 

We seek books on actors, films, tv series, anything to do with the performing arts.

NDSU Press publishes regional scholarship and literary contributions. Our region includes the Red River Valley, the state of North Dakota, the Great Plains of the United States and the Prairies of Canada, and comparable regions of other continents. Works published by the press address regional life directly. Such works contribute to scholarly knowledge of region (that is, discovery of new knowledge) or to public consciousness of region (that is, dissemination of information or interpretation of regional experience).

Open Letter—the University of Rochester's nonprofit, literary translation press—is one of only a handful of publishing houses dedicated to increasing access to world literature for English readers. Publishing ten titles in translation each year and running an online literary website called Three Percent, Open Letter searches for works that are extraordinary and influential, works that we hope will become the classics of tomorrow.

We publish one book every other year through the biennial Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize.

Flowstone Press publishes contemporary poetry collections and chapbooks. Our tastes are eclectic, but we’ll lean toward the lyrical, psychological, environmental, cultural, and imagistic. Please note that our editorial calendar is full for the next year, so we are not accepting unsolicited manuscripts at this time.

We need to read two sample poems before accepting full manuscripts for consideration. Manuscripts should be in word documents (not google docs), have poems left-justified, and contain between 20 and 30 pages of poems. We lean towards light-hearted poems and collections that are theme-based, but will consider all types of poems.

AJB is a leading independent press devoted to discovering and publishing exceptional poetry by emerging and established writers. The press is an innovator in the field, committed to publishing a range of voices, supporting writers’ careers, and collaborating with authors in the publishing process.   

Fruit Bat Press is a handmade, limited edition chapbook press that is co-based in Chicago and Los Angeles. Fruit bats inspire us because they are dark and sweet at the same time — and they are expert foragers. We are committed to publishing work that embraces foraging: an unusual collection of ideas from a diverse set of perspectives with a basket of different emotions. 

There is a $5 submission fee that goes to the cost of making books. If you are unable to swing the fee but want to submit, please contact the Editor.

Alan Squire Publishing is an independent literary press founded in 2010 to publish books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that are beautifully written and beautifully made, with the avid reader and book-lover in mind. We are committed to bringing to the public books of great merit that deserve a wide readership, and to forging a new model of collaboration with other independent presses here and abroad.