Aubade Publishing publishes speculative fiction, historical fiction, and gothic literature as well as poetry collections. They also publish sports memiors. Please do not submit...
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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 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Historical, Speculative Fiction -
Augury Books is an independent press based in Brooklyn. Committed to publishing innovative work from emerging and established writers, Augury Books seeks to reaffirm the...
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Aunt Lute Books is an intersectional, feminist press dedicated to publishing literature by those who have been traditionally underrepresented in or excluded by the literary...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, War, Young Adult
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Autumn House Press is a nationally renowned nonprofit publisher based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose mission is to publish and promote poetry and other fine...
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Awst Press publishes a wide range of work across perspectives, genres, and subjects. In addition to full-length books, they have hosted essay series, and their Pocketbooks...
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Bainbridge Island Press is a poetry publisher known for its thoughtful approach to lyrical work. They publish collections, anthologies, and chapbooks that focus on verse that...
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Baobab Press seeks books that communicate and support their themes through new and well-articulated means. They like risk. They like invention. More importantly, they look for...
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The editors seek books on actors, films, television series, anything to do with the performing arts. They also seek Disney park books for our imprint, Theme Park Press, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Pop Culture -
Founded in 2007, Beatdom Books is the publisher of Beatdom, a literary journal that explores the Beat Generation and related countercultural movements. They also...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Historical, Narrative Nonfiction -
Bella Books publishes lesbian/sapphic fiction of all genres, and is known for award-winning and best-selling f/f romance, mystery, fantasy, paranormal and general fiction.
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Bellevue Literary Press is devoted to publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences because they believe that science and the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction -
Writing about and from the Rust Belt, smart narrative and serious nonfiction, fiction with a regional foothold, cultural criticism, urbanism, progressive politics, scholarly...
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BLP is currently accepting engaging stories in search of a great home. Main themes explore the liminal world where anything can happen. Liminal is anything “in-between” or “...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult -
betweenthehighway is a press publishes on receipt paper. Inspired by accounting books from the Japanese Edo period, each book features the work of one writer. Please see the...
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Books by the Bitter Oleander Press represent some of the best of contemporary poetry published in English and in translation. Although their concentration is primarily on...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Mar 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Prose Poetry, Translation -
Since 1971, BkMk Press (pronounced “bookmark”) has been committed to finding and publishing outstanding Writers. BkMk Press publishes primarily poetry and short fiction...
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Black Beacon Books is an independent publisher founded by author and anthologist, Cameron Trost. It began in Australia in 2013 and is now based in Brittany. We publish...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Feb 28Genre: FictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Black Glove Press is a collective of writers, artists, occultists, surrealists, and weirdos. The editors like books that crack open reality and allow us to peek through. The...
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Black Lawrence Press is an independent publisher of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. They hold open reading periods during the months of June and November...
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Black Scat Books is a small, independent, not-for-profit press. They are are currently reading submissions to their magazine: TYPO: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROTOTYPES...
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Black Sun Lit publishes cross-genre and hybrid poetry.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Jun 1 to Aug 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetrySubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Lyric Essay, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Blair is a nonprofit independent book publisher. They strive to publish quality writing, focusing on authors and subjects historically neglected by mainstream publishers,...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 15 to Jan 15, Apr 15 to Jun 15, Jul 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
BlazeVOX [books] presents innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Their books push at the frontiers of what is possible with their innovative poetry...
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BLF Press is an independent Black feminist press dedicated to amplifying the work of Black women and women of color.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction
