Southeast Missouri State University Press, founded in 2001, serves as a first-rate publisher in an underpublished area of the nation.
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 Nov 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
SFK Press is an independent publisher based in Metro Atlanta. The path for an artist to reach a wider audience is no longer exclusively controlled by corporate gatekeepers...
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We seek weird, innovative, and optimistic science fiction from new and published authors. Quality, inventive, and engaging prose, plus fun new ideas, will catch our eyes every...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: FictionGenres: Cross-genre, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction -
Please read previously published worked to get an idea what we are looking for. Don't just send your MS blindly. We are punk rock publishing. We are looking for energy and edge...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Jul 1 to Sep 1, Oct 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Commercial Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction -
Spurl Editions (est. 2015) is an independent publisher of unusual literature and photography, specializing in works fitting for “our current decrepit and apocalyptic world.”...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionGenres: LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Translation -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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Stay Weird and Keep Writing Print Co is a non-profit, Independent publishing company. It is connected to the Facebook group "Notes From the Edge". Stay Weird and Keep Writing...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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At Stillhouse Press we are committed to publishing writers, both emerging and established. We focus specifically on the idea "craft publishing," working with our authors to...
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A 501(c)(3) non-profit literary press collective founded in 2000, Sundress Publications is entirely volunteer-run, publishes chapbooks and full-length works in both print and...
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The Gatewood Prize is Switchback Books' annual competition for a first or second full-length (48-80 pp.) collection of poems by a woman writing in the English language. It is...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 15Genre: PoetryGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry -
Established in 2015, Sword & Kettle Press is a tiny independent publishing house. Our mission is to publish inclusive feminist fantasy & speculative fiction. We look...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
