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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  • Galileo Press is seeking: vivid imagery and the balance of abstract to concrete imagery, the capacity to surprise, an elastic syntax, pace, and music, thematic cohesiveness and...

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    Reading Period: May 1 to Sep 1
  • Please note that Gival Press, established in 1998, has discontinued accepting queries for book publication. the Gival Press Poetry Award and the Gival Press Novel Award have...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Aug 8
    Temporarily Closed to Submissions
  • Green Linden Press publishes the annual Wishing Jewel Prize winner, awarded for a manuscript that challenges expectations of what a book of poems can be; the Essential Voices...

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    Reading Period: Aug 1 to Nov 30, Dec 1 to Mar 21