Small Presses

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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  • Eggtooth Editions holds an annual chapbook contest for any genre of writing, including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, plays, and hybrid/cross-genre/multi-genre work. The...

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    Reading Period: Sep 15 to Dec 15
  • Etchings Press is UIndy’s teaching press and publishing laboratory. Writers from around the world submit recently published books to the Whirling Prize in the fall in response...

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    Reading Period: Oct 1 to Jan 26