Publishing type: print only

Wendy’s Subway

Wendy’s Subway is a reading room, writing space, and independent publisher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. We support emerging artists and writers in making experimental, urgent work and create alternative modes for learning and thinking in community.... Read more

Reading Period: 
Sep 1 to Oct 31
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

Howling Bird Press

Howling Bird Press publishes the best in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. They run an annual nationwide contest in alternating genres. They are the imprint of Augsburg University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. As a teaching press,... Read more

Reading Period: 
Apr 2 to Aug 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Bloomsday Literary

Bloomsday Literary publishes bold, beautifully crafted books by historically excluded writers, whose stories transform and inspire to act.

Reading Period: 
Jun 1 to Aug 30
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Thirty West Publishing House

Thirty West Publishing House is open to many literary themes and poetic forms and styles. Never really pigeonholed themselves to one market. They enjoy the succinct, the startling, and the sublime. Some humor will keep them turning pages. They... Read more

Reading Period: 
Aug 1 to Dec 31
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

April Gloaming Publishing

April Gloaming Publishing is a nonprofit Nashville-based independent press that aims to capture and better understand the Southern soul, Southern writing, and the Southern holler.  Read more

In the words of William Faulkner, to be Southern is to, “... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library

The focus of the Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library is mostly poetry. The press has a specialized series of poetry/art books with art created by the author, or a specialized artist. The editors have published several short story... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

Flowstone Press

Flowstone Press publishes contemporary poetry collections and chapbooks.

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Poetry

Foundlings Press

Foundlings seeks to publish—in paper and ink—the best writing. The press takes its ethic and aesthetic from the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church. Not all of it; just Canon 1115, which closes with the provoking observation that “Foundlings... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

akinoga press

akinoga press is a Baltimore-based micro press that specialzes in hand-bound chapbooks of a spacious/minimalist/austere flavor, though on the lookout for anything small, quiet, odd, easily-missed, and a hundred percent needs to be read.

Reading Period: 
Apr 1 to Apr 30
Temporarily closed to submissions
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation

Alabaster Leaves Publishing

Alabaster Leaves Publishing is for emerging poets. There are no style requirements. Manuscripts are accepted year-round.

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry

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