A 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary press collective founded in 2000, Sundress Publications is entirely volunteer-run, publishes chapbooks and full-length works in both print and...
Read moreSmall 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.
-
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Reading Period: Mar 1 to May 31, Jun 1 to Aug 31, Dec 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, LGBTQ Voices, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction
-
Susquehanna University Press publishes book-length literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. The editors look for work that will appeal to local, regional, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Sword & Kettle Press is a cooperative publishing house for queer & intersectional speculative literature. Established in 2015 and incorporated as a worker-owned press...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry -
TCK Publishing publishes a wide range of nonfiction and are currently accepting book proposals. They do not publish poetry or children’s picture books.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Terrapin Books is a small press for poetry books. They publish single author full-length collections, an occasional anthology, and craft books. They run two open reading...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 24 to Feb 28, Aug 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry -
Thirty West Publishing House is open to many literary themes and poetic forms and styles. Think of how you can escape the mundane before you submit. The succinct, the...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jul 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction -
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry
-
The Toad Press International Chapbook Series publishes contemporary, exciting, beautiful, odd, and avant-garde chapbook-length translations of poetry and prose.
Reading Period: Oct 15 to Dec 31Genre: TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Transformation Media Books is dedicated to publishing innovative works that nourish the body, mind and spirit, written by authors whose ideas and messages make a difference in...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Creative Nonfiction -
Trio House Press publishes literary creative nonfiction and poetry that highlights voices, topics, and angles that are underrepresented in contemporary literature, and that...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Tupelo Press, which released its first five books in fall 2001, is an independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Twelve House Books is an independent publisher of Speculative Fiction, Quirk, and Poetry. We have a special interest in Fabulism and Bradburyesque nostalgia...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Two Lines Press, the publishing program of the Center for the Art of Translation, specializes in exceptional new writing and overlooked classics that have...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Translation -
Two Sylvias Press is an independent press dedicated to publishing the exceptional voices of poets founded in 2010 by poets Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy. ...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry -
Type Eighteen Books publishes inspiring and innovative writing—well-crafted, well-considered stories with the potential to change lives. By prioritizing literary excellence and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
Ugly Duckling Presse is a non-profit publisher of poetry, translation, experimental prose, performance texts, and books by artists. UDP favors emerging, international, and “...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Aug 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. The press publishes the winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, and the Iowa Poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
UT Press has a long history of publishing books and series in the areas of regional history, poetry, and the fantastic. They invite proposals for trade and scholarly books...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The University of Utah Press is an agency of the J. Willard Marriott Library of the University of Utah. In accordance with the mission of the University, the Press publishes...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Historical, Nature/Environmental, Regional -
The University of Wisconsin Press is a not-for-profit publisher of books and journals. Its mission embodies the Wisconsin Idea by publishing work of distinction that serves the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Regional, Short Fiction, Translation -
Treating each book as a work of art, Unleash Press publishes a limited number of single-author manuscripts each year. The editors are currently looking for works-in-progress...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jul 31, Aug 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
-
Unsolicited Press publishes boundary-pushing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, along with select hybrid and translated works. The editors...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Vallum Society for Education in Arts & Letters (VSEAL) is a federally incorporated charity based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal, Canada) on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory that...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry
