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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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Feminist, LGBTQ, Translation -
Mixed Genre or Poetry Collection: 50-120 pages.
For poetry, we lean toward the lyrical, eccentric, ambivalent and wildly imaginative. For mixed genre work, your...
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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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Begun in 1979 by poet, teacher, and printer Gary Metras to print and publish short collections of quality contemporary poetry using the methods and equipment of the antique...
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Our aesthetic favors challenging writing that combines the cerebral and the visceral.
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Under our Bolden imprint, we publish fiction, nonfiction, and memoirs by African-American authors. Under our Midway imprint, we publish nonfiction with a Midwest focus. Under...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Regional, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction -
Ahsahta Press champions and promotes surprising, relevant, and accessible experimental poetry that more commercially minded small presses avoid; in making it widely available,...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Nature/Environmental, Prose Poetry -
Airlie Press is a nonprofit publishing collective dedicated to cultivating and sustaining fine contemporary poetry. We produce beautiful and compelling books by Pacific...
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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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, LGBTQ, Literary Fiction, Political, Pop Culture -
Akinoga Press is a Baltimore-based micro-press that specialzes in hand-bound chapbooks of a spacious/minimalist/austere flavor, though we're on the lookout for anything small,...
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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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Allbook Books was started in 2002 for the publishing of poetry and other writings that encourage one-world consciousness and respect for various cultures, lifestyles, spiritual...
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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 NonfictionSubgenres: 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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We are after writing the major publishing world would leave behind - the difficult, the strange, the unspoken. We are after beauty and grace. Our authors are young, full of...
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Ananke Press is a small, independent press in New York City with the focus on smart speculative fiction. We welcome odd and unexpected stories, masterfully crafted with the...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jul 30Genre: FictionSubgenres: 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
