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Forest Avenue Press [1]

Basic Information
Address: 
P.O. Box 80134
Zip / Postal Code: 
97280
Submission Guidelines: 
https://forestavenuepress.com/submissions [2]
City: 
Portland
Website: 
https://forestavenuepress.com [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
Oregon
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Publisher
Contact First Name: 
Laura
Stanfill
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Period: 
Sunday, January 4, 2026 to Friday, February 6, 2026
Response Time: 
Less than 3 months
Book Types: 
Novel
Memoir
Formats: 
Paperback
E-book
Audio
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Distributors: 
Publishers Group West
Tips From the Editor: 

We love manuscripts that inspire delight and wonder, so we’re not the best place for angry stories or deeply sad ones. We are primarily a fiction press and only look at memoirs on an occasional by-request basis. 

Titles per Year: 
1 to 5
Editorial Focus: 

Forest Avenue Press publishes literary fiction on a joyride and the occasional memoir. They especially love working with BIPOC, queer, neurodivergent, and disabled authors. 

Representative Authors: 

Stevan Allred, Dan Berne, Kate Gray, Ellen Urbani, Robert Hill, Jamie Duclos-Yourdon, Renee Macalino Rutledge, Michael Shou-Yung Shum

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
2
Publishing type: 
print only [4]
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir [5]
BIPOC Voices [6]
Cross-genre [7]
LGBTQ Voices [8]
Literary Fiction [9]
Magical Realism [10]

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

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/forest_avenue_press [2] https://forestavenuepress.com/submissions [3] https://forestavenuepress.com [4] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/print_only [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/autobiographymemoir [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/bipoc-voices [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/glbt [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/magical-realism