CavanKerry Press seeks materials from the broadest range of writers, including people of color and people with disabilities. We are partial to writers whose distinct voices are...
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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: Jul 1 to Jul 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
The press publishes two books a year. A modest reading fee pays for the publication of the book. It also publishes winners in four additional no-cost contests: Romance Reigns (...
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The focus of the Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library is mostly poetry. The press has a specialized series of poetry/art books with art created by the author, or a...
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Circling Rivers is an independent publisher of literary nonfiction and poetry. They’re drawn to the writer, known or unknown, whose work offers insight and depth, beauty, and ...
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Clare Songbirds Publishing House was established to provide a print forum for the creation of limited edition, fine art from poets and writers, both established and emerging....
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The CSU Poetry Center is committed to acquiring stylistically distinctive and skillfully crafted collections of poetry, prose, and translation from an aesthetically diverse...
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Codhill Press is devoted exclusively to the advancement and appreciation of the finest works in poetry and prose which promise to search out important meanings for life.
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Coffee House Press creates new spaces for audiences and artists to interact, inspiring readers and enriching communities by expanding the definition of what literature is, what...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31, Oct 1 to Oct 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Translation -
Cooper Dillon is a small poetry press committed to upholding the virtues of poetry as a high art and expression of truth, beauty, and sincerity: the values...
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Whether in the form of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, the works they like to publish engage the senses, fire up the neurons, possess a social consciousness, and help make...
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The press is flexible with a broad taste, though most of their books in print are poetry collections.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
DarkWinter Press and Baxter Editions are looking for novellas, novel-length manuscripts, short story collections, and poetry collections with a twist. They do not publish...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
Reading Period: Apr 15 to Oct 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetrySubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation
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Chapbooks at dipity.press must be themed. It’s an international series open to poets of all ages. The editors highlight abstract poetry both the dark and light (comical side)...
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Dusty Trails Books is a new small press that focuses on American history from the 1840s to the Dust Bowl era.
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Dynamo Verlag publishes works demonstrating nontraditional poetics: genius, eclecticism, and originality.
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Dzanc Books was created in 2006 to advance great writing and champion those writers who don't fit neatly into the marketing niches of for-profit presses and to advance literary...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Sep 30, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
Eggtooth Editions holds an annual chapbook contest for any genre of writing, including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, plays, and hybrid/cross-genre/multi-genre work. The...
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Etchings Press is UIndy’s teaching press and publishing laboratory. Writers from around the world submit recently published books to the Whirling Prize in the fall in response...
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fhp, imprint of Sleepy Lemur Quality Enterprises, publishes poetry and prose chapbooks and broadsides in limited editions; established in the early 2000s, fhp editors encourage...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Fallen Tree Press is a small press specializing in publishing poetry chapbooks. FTP is focused on being part of the larger writing community. It’s their intent to promote a...
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Fernwood Press promotes poetry collections that speak to the human capacity for spiritual experience.
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Finishing Line Press an award-winning BIPOC + women-owned and -operated small press publisher located in Georgetown, Kentucky. Since 1998. FLP is a proud member of CLMP.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
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Foundlings seeks to publish—in paper and ink—the best writing. The press takes its ethic and aesthetic from the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church. Not all of it; just...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
