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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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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
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PALH or Philippine American Literary House is a small press that publishes high quality fiction and creative non-fiction books by Filipino Americans and other Filipinos....
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Established in 2016, PALOMA PRESS is a San Francisco Bay Area-based independent literary press publishing poetry, prose, and limited edition books. We donate a portion of our ...
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At Pandamoon, we are entrepreneurs at heart, filled with the drive and passion to create the changes we want to see in the publishing world. A world where all talented voices...
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We like the experimental as well as the accessible; we love prose poems and erasures, but also sonnets and sestinas. Many people associate chapbooks with only poetry, but we're...
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Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, publishes print and digital publications featuring new works of scholars, researchers, and poets....
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Parlor Press's primary goal is to publish outstanding writing and scholarship in a variety of subjects for a broad range of readers. We value excellence,...
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Genre: Creative NonfictionGenres: Literary Fiction
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Passager Books is a part of Passager journal, devoted to promoting the work of older writers. Passager Books publishes a select number of books each year by writers who have...
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We believe in publishing variously. We have published narrative works. We published the first book of "flarf" poetry. We published a collaborative book of poems written in...
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Not reading again until Summer 2021.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 1Genres: Prose Poetry -
P+B Publications is an independent publisher, seeking the best new work by women and non-binary authors. In the spirit of Pen + Brush, we believe fervently that our publishing...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction -
Are you looking for a good read? Fiction or nonfiction, our books will tickle the imagination and tantalize the mind. Our mission is to discover and promote new, talented...
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PERSEA BOOKS is an independent, literary publishing house founded in 1975 by Michael Braziller and Karen Braziller, who still own and direct the company. Over the past decades...
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Perugia Press publishes the best new women poets in the country. Each year we produce one book, the winner of our annual contest. Our mission is to produce beautiful books that...
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We need to read two sample poems before accepting full manuscripts for consideration. Manuscripts should be in word documents (not google docs), have poems left-justified, and...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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We are a non-profit publisher of free ebooks. We’re here to publish material that wouldn’t ordinarily be published by mainstream presses or accepted by the literary...
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Reading Period: Apr 7 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry
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Plan B Press encourages, captures, presents and preserves contemporary poetry by publishing and presenting emerging poets. A small independent publishing company that primarily...
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Platypus Press is an independent publisher based in England. We seek to unearth innovative contemporary poetry and prose from a broad variety of voices and experiences.
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DEDICATED TO ENRICHING READERS WITH EYE-OPENING STORIES AND POETRY BY INCREDIBLE TALENT, WITH HEART, ORIGINALITY, AND LOVE OF LANGUAGE.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
If poets and lovers of poetry don't write, publish, read, and purchase poetry books then we will have no say in the quality of our contemporary culture and no excuse for the...
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Poetry and microfiction with a strong narrative. We like the lyrical, embrace the formal as well as spoken word. Clarity is essential. We love pop culture.
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The Poet’s Haven is a place for artists across a wide and diverse spectrum to feel safe seeing their work published. We are open to unsolicited submissions from both...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
