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Illuminated Press [1]

Basic Information
Zip / Postal Code: 
14886
Submission Guidelines: 
https://illuminatedpress.org/submissions [2]
City: 
Trumansburg
Website: 
https://illuminatedpress.org [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
New York
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Publisher
Contact First Name: 
Laura
Rowley
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Periods: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026 to Saturday, January 31, 2026
Friday, August 1, 2025 to Sunday, August 31, 2025
Response Time: 
3 to 6 months
Book Types: 
Chapbook
Short story collections
Essay collections
Poetry collections
Formats: 
Paperback
Hardcover
E-book
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Titles per Year: 
1 to 5
Editorial Focus: 

Illuminated Press is a micro publisher that amplifies a wide range of voices through publishing. Writers of any age and experience whose work explores social, political, and/or economic topics are encouraged to submit.

They consider text, image, materials, and book structure as integral elements to the content. Their books feature letterpress printed covers on handmade paper and hand binding in editions of 200-300 copies. For this reason, they most likely cannot produce books more than 100 pages.

Representative Authors: 

Nora Snyder, Matthew Gordon, Gabriel Awuah Mainoo, Maliha Ali, Kai Thigpen, Kevin Basl, Erin Dorney.

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
2-5
Publishing type: 
online and print [4]
Subgenres: 
Cross-genre [5]
Experimental [6]
Feminist [7]
Graphic/Illustrated [8]
LGBTQ Voices [9]
Literary Fiction [10]
Nature/Environmental [11]
Political [12]
Prose Poetry [13]
Young Adult [14]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/small_presses/illuminated_press

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/illuminated_press [2] https://illuminatedpress.org/submissions [3] https://illuminatedpress.org [4] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/online_and_print [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/experimental [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/feminist [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/graphic-illustrated [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/glbt [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [11] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/nature-environmental [12] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/political [13] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/prose_poetry [14] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/young-adult