We publish a wide range of nonfiction and are currently accepting book proposals.
We do not publish poetry or children's picture books.
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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Founded in 2021 by husband and wife team Grace and Tyler Wittkofsky, Tea With Coffee Media is a team of indie authors, designers, and editors who have a goal of helping indie...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
Terrapin Books is a small press for poetry books. They publish single author full-length collections, an occasional anthology, and craft books. The run two open reading periods...
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Founded in 2015, Thea Press is an independent book publisher committed to helping nurture hidden stories and narratives to birth. It serves authors who are skilled observers...
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We are open to many literary themes and poetic forms & styles. Never really pigeonholed ourselves to one market. We enjoy the succinct, the startling, and the sublime. Some...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction -
Three Rooms Press is a fierce New York-based independent publisher inspired by dada, punk, and passion. Founded in 1993, it serves as a leading independent publisher of cut-the...
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Reading Period: Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
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- Our primary focus is in the following genres of fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy (LitRPG included), YA
- We will consider when the stars...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Historical, Humor, War, Young Adult -
The Toad Press International Chapbook Series publishes contemporary, exciting, beautiful, odd, and avant-garde chapbook-length translations of poetry and prose...
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We're into books that use separate parts to make a whole: poetry, short stories, comics poetry, hybrids, photo stories, new styles that we haven't thought of yet.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Torrey House Press is an independent nonprofit publisher promoting environmental conservation through literature. We strive to identify exceptional writers, nurture their work...
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TouchPoint Press, a traditional royalty paying publisher of digital and print fiction and nonfiction, strives to be innovative and energetic in all we do from acquisitions to...
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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...
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Transit Books is a nonprofit publisher of international and American literature, based in Oakland, California. Founded in 2015, Transit Books is committed to the discovery and...
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Trembling Pillow Press publishes new and established authors focusing on works that are experimental with a preference for poetics based on anthropological, archaeological,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
Trio House Press is an independent literary press publishing three or more collections of poems annually. We offer two annual poetry awards, the Trio Award for First or Second...
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TSEHAI Publishers is where a writer becomes an author. As we select our manuscripts carefully and work very hard to achieve the highest editorial quality, we also offer a...
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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...
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We seek to publish gifted writers whose works are under-represented by corporate marketing. We are partial to the writer who possesses a gift for compassionate, sharp-eyed...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction -
Two Lines Press gives American readers the opportunity to read some of the great work from outside our borders that they would not otherwise get to see. As the barriers between...
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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. ...
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Ugly Duckling Presse is a mission-driven small press that publishes poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. UDP favors emerging,...
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Unbound Edition Press champions honest, original voices. Committed to the power of the literary arts to explore and illuminate the contemporary human condition, it publishes...
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Unicorn Press has published hand-bound chapbooks and books of poetry since 1967.
Reading Period: May 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry -
Works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We publish the winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the Iowa Poetry Prize, novels, poetry anthologies, books on the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
