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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: Oct 28 to Dec 28, Feb 1 to Mar 30Genre: Poetry -
Baobab Press seeks books that communicate and support their themes through new and well-articulated means. We like risk. We like invention. More importantly, we look for a...
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The editors of Barefoot Muse Press pride themselves on picking books not for their authors' name value, or for their saleability, but for the opportunity to bring work they...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jul 3Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Formal Poetry -
BatCat Press publishes limited handbound editions of awesome poetry and prose. We aim to publish books, chapbooks, and broadsides that are the perfect combination of excellent...
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Bateau Press publishes the winner of the annual Boom Chapbook Contest. Our chapbooks are of the highest quality, well-designed, letterpress covers, hand stitched, and detail-...
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Bauhan Publishing is an independent Publisher in Peterborough, New Hampshire. They focus on New England regional books in the areas of history, art, nature studies, and poetry...
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Beacon Publishing Group is an award-winning, independent publisher of books and audio books headquartered in NYC. Beacon has a broad array of titles in fiction & non-...
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We seek books on actors, films, tv series, anything to do with the performing arts.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir -
Founded in 2007, Beatdom Books is the publisher of Beatdom, a literary journal that explores the Beat Generation and related countercultural movements. We also publish...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Historical, Narrative Nonfiction -
Bella Books publishes lesbian fiction of all genres, and is known for award-winning and best-selling lesbian romance, mystery, fantasy, paranormal and general fiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: LGBTQ Voices -
The mission at Belle Point Press is to celebrate the literary culture and community of the American Mid-South: all its paradoxes and contradictions, all the ways it gets people...
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Bellevue Literary Press is devoted to publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences because we believe that science and the humanities...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction -
Belt Publishing focuses on quality non-fiction by and for the Midwest, and consists of the City Anthology Series, Notches, and Neighborhood Guidebooks.
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BLP is currently accepting engaging stories in search of a great home. Our main themes explore the liminal world where anything can happen. Liminal is anything 'in-between' or...
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betweenthehighway is a press dedicated to publishing chapbooks in the form of store receipts. Inspired by accounting books from the Japanese Edo period, each chapbook features...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental, Religious/Spiritual -
If we love your manuscript and offer you a contract, we will provide editing, advice and direction (if you need it), the services of our art department to create your book...
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Established in 2012, Biting Duck Press are an indie press with the goal of providing high-quality, low-cost, highly accessible electronic and print books for...
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Books by The Bitter Oleander Press represent some of the best of contemporary poetry published in English and in translation. Although their concentration is primarily on...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Prose Poetry, Translation -
Since 1971, BkMk Press (pronounced “bookmark”) has been committed to finding and publishing outstanding Writers. BkMk Press publishes primarily poetry and short fiction...
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Black Lawrence Press is an independent publisher of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We also publish the occasional translation from German. We hold open...
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We are a small, independent, not-for-profit press dedicated to publishing sublime art & literature, i.e., eccentric art & obscure texts, absurdist fiction, experimental...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: Erotica, Experimental, Humor, Literary Fiction, Translation -
Women-owned specialty press publisher of award-winning novels, anthologies & special collections, specializing in horror & dark fantasy.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction -
Black Sun Lit is a print and digital literary press that endeavors to introduce, promote, and support both emerging and experienced writers whose work has little representation...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Blair is a small, independent press interested in publishing voices from beyond the mainstream. We publish prose and poetry by underrepresented writers such as women, people of...
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BlazeVOX [books] presents innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Our books push at the frontiers of what is possible with our innovative poetry,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
