Independent poetry press publishing primarily under the imprints Body Language (LGBT and sexuality) and Fabula Rasa (myth and fairy tale). We also co-publish the Sapphic...
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Whether you are pursuing the publication of your first book or your fifth, use the Small Presses database to find contact information, submission guidelines, and representative authors—everything you need to determine which publishers match your vision for your writing and your writing life. Use the filters below to find presses with reading periods that are open now or opening soon (within the next thirty days), accept unsolicited submissions, and match all of your criteria for the perfect publisher of your work.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Translation -
The A3 Press publishes work that is lyrical and intense, a bit weird, perhaps, hybrid, experimental. Prose, poetry, illustration, photography and comics that are urgent and say...
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Able Muse Press publishes emerging and established poets and writers, and anthologies of poetry, fiction, and art. We also publish periodical print versions of Able Muse.
Reading Period: May 1 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Ad Lumen Press seeks to publish works of high artistic and/or literary merit from emerging voices across genres and from throughout the country, with a special emphasis on...
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Under our Bolden imprint, we publish fiction, nonfiction, and memoirs by Black American authors. Under our Midway imprint, we publish nonfiction with a Midwest focus. Under our...
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Airlie Press is a nonprofit publishing collective dedicated to cultivating and sustaining fine contemporary poetry. It produces books by Pacific Northwest poets; their mission...
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Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors who are either ignored by the...
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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...
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Alabaster Leaves Publishing is for emerging poets. There are no style requirements, manuscripts are accepted year-round. There is no reading fee.
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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,...
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Aldrich Press is an imprint of Kelsay Books publishing company. We accept manuscripts year round with the aim to showcase the literary work of accomplished poets. Response time...
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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,...
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Allium Press of Chicago was founded in 2009 as a small, independent press.
We publish literary fiction, historical fiction, mysteries, thrillers, and young adult fiction...
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The Altar Collective is a small press and arts collective based in Los Angeles and New York City. It was created in June of 2013 as a stepping stone for aspiring writers, but...
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Alternating Current is an independent press dedicated to publishing and promoting incredible literature that challenges readers and has an innate sense of self, timelessness,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Flash Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Alternative Book Press is a new publishing company established in October 2012 by Columbia University and Cornell University graduates with the following aim in view: To...
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Ananke Press is a small, independent press in New York City with a focus on smart speculative fiction. We welcome odd and unexpected stories,...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 30Genre: FictionGenres: Cross-genre, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Anomalous has its sights set on publishing literary text, advancing audio forms and creation, and supporting all sorts of alternative realities of the near future. The online...
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Another New Calligraphy has enjoyed the quiet thrill of making and sharing since 2009. ANC guides writers and musicians in the realization of their work via the production of...
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Anvil Press is a Vancouver literary press founded in 1991. Now in its twenty-fifth year of publishing, Anvil has firmly established itself as a publisher of progressive,...
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You might describe us as a heavy metal acid trip via literature. We believe books are hallucinogens suffused with emotion, feeling, and sensation. Our books wobble in the frame...
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Apogee Press publishes the work of innovative and experimental poets. Culturally and formally diverse, our poets share an original use of language.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: BIPOC Voices -
Apollo Publishers publishes narrative nonfiction books on topics we deem timely and topical. Books must be at least 50,000 words in length and must have broad, trade appeal....
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
April Gloaming Publishing is a Nashville-based independent press that aims to capture and better understand the Southern soul, Southern writing, and the Southern holler.
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Aquarius Press aims to develop, publish and promote talented writers typically underrepresented in the literary marketplace. Our Willow Books division specializes in the works...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
