Open Letter—the University of Rochester's nonprofit, literary translation press—is one of only a handful of publishing houses dedicated to increasing access to world literature...
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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, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Translation -
The mission of the Origami Poems Project™ is the encouragement of literature & the arts by bringing free poetry to everyone through the printing and distribution of free...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Jun 30Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Orison Books is a 501(c)(3) non-profit literary press focused on the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives.
Reading Period: Oct 1 to Oct 31, Dec 1 to Aug 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
An independent publisher of poetry that runs counter to the mainstream, Ornithopter Press has published individual collections by contemporary authors since 2014. The press...
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Other Press attracts authors who are guided by a passion to discover the limits of knowledge and imagination.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Historical, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Political -
Provocative reading. Literary, engaged, independent, forward-leaning. Exceptional fiction. Unexpected essays. Voices to be reckoned with... Our fiction belongs to a broad range...
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Overcup Press is an independent publishing house with national distribution.
Query letters on these nonfiction topics are of particular interest:
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Bringing together poets and artists to create affordable letterpress printed poetry booklets (pamphlets).
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Established in 2016, PALOMA PRESS is a San Francisco Bay Area-based, Filipino American and immigrant women-led, independent literary press. We are founded in...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Pandamoon Publishing is an independent publishing house in Austin, Texas. It is a royalty-paying, non-subsidy publisher who believes the relationship between the author and the...
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Papeachu Press is a small feminist book publisher for female, nonbinary, and genderqueer creators. They publish both chapbooks and full-length collections of poetry, short...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
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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Parlor Press's primary goal is to publish outstanding writing and scholarship in various subjects for a broad range of readers. Parlor Press values excellence...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 1Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Prose Poetry, Translation -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction
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Devoted to promoting the work of older writers, Passager Books publishes a select number of books each year by writers who have been published in Passager journal....
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I'm a DC native and obviously partial to poets and writers in the Delmarva area. But we have published books by a British poet and other writers scattered along the Atlantic...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Pop Culture -
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 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry -
The editors need to read two sample poems before accepting full manuscripts for consideration. Manuscripts should be in word documents (not google docs), have poems left-...
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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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Poetic Matrix Press was founded in the high mountain beauty of Yosemite in 1997 and has since grown into a press that is producing full-length books as fine as any that can be...
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Reading Period: Jul 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry
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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.
Reading Period: Nov 17 to Jan 6, May 21 to Sep 5Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Founded in 1971, the press specializes in lesser-known 1960s–1970s New York poets, neoromantic and gothic poetry, annotated reprints of lost poets, and topical or regional...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: LGBTQ Voices, Regional, Translation
