Four Way Books is dedicated to producing and promoting excellent literary publications and to creating opportunities for writers of merit. They seek to please and expand poetry...
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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: Jun 1 to Jun 30, Jan 1 to Mar 31, Nov 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Fruit Bat Press is a handmade, limited edition chapbook press that is based in Chicago and Los Angeles. Fruit bats inspire them because they are dark and sweet at the same time...
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Since 2007, FutureCycle Press has published an eclectic mix of magazines, anthologies, and poetry books by some of the best contemporary English-language poets and writers,...
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Galileo Press is seeking: vivid imagery and the balance of abstract to concrete imagery, the capacity to surprise, an elastic syntax, pace, and music, thematic cohesiveness and...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices -
Game Over Books is a small publisher run collaboratively by a group of nerdy artists. Their goal is to amplify diverse voices in writing and bring high-quality publications to...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
Please note that Gival Press, established in 1998, has discontinued accepting queries for book publication. the Gival Press Poetry Award and the Gival Press Novel Award have...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Aug 8Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Translation -
Gnashing Teeth Publishing is committed to including underrepresented voices. They look for unique work with different perspectives, poems which make them hold their breath,...
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Gold Line Press, founded in 2010, aims to promote the work of emerging poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction writers, and to elevate the chapbook form. The ...
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Golden Antelope Press is a small press operated in conjunction with, or spun off from, its sister presses, the more scholarly Blazing Sapphire and Naciketas Presses. The focus...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jul 13Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, Historical, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
Green Linden Press publishes the annual Wishing Jewel Prize winner, awarded for a manuscript that challenges expectations of what a book of poems can be; the Essential Voices...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Nov 30, Dec 1 to Mar 21Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Green Writers Press is an environmentally focused publisher of novels, poetry, memoir, essays, and some science writing. Their list is nature-based and environmental, and their...
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Grid Books is a publisher of poetry, fiction, and fine art editions foregrounding creative work that springs from the margins and promoting work that reflects a diversity of...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Feb 28, May 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Gunpowder Press is an independent literary 501(c)(3) organization based in Santa Barbara, California. Founded in 2013, Gunpowder values community and craft. The press publishes...
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Halbaffe Press is a small independent publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Specializing in poetry, the press also accepts fiction and nonfiction.
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Established in 2015, Half Mystic Press is an international, independent, and interdisciplinary publishing house dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms.
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Founded in 2013, Headmistress Press specializes in poetry and art by lesbians, and their mission is to increase lesbian visibility in the arts. For many years, they held the...
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Created as a response to a changing marketplace by publishing industry veterans, High Frequency publishes only the highest quality work—work the editors believe in...
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Host’s mission as an independent, intersectional feminist press is to publish groundbreaking poetry by women writers, BIPOC writers, LGBTQ+ writers, writers of a lower...
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Howling Bird Press publishes the best in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. They run an annual nationwide contest in alternating genres. They are the imprint of Augsburg...
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Founded in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1995, Hub City Press is the South’s premier independent literary press. Focused on finding and spotlighting extraordinary new and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Regional -
In Case Of Emergency Press publishes a small number of literary works every year: poetry, short stories, scripts, and longer fiction. If you have a manuscript ready, they’d be...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Oct 31, Oct 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Ink & Ribbon Press is a nonprofit poetry publisher devoted to craft, discovery, and the permanence of the printed word. The press publishes finely made, small-run editions...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 15 to Feb 14, Jun 15 to Aug 14Genre: Poetry -
The Inlandia Institute is a regionally-focused literary nonprofit and publishing house. They offer an annual poetry book competition, the Hillary Gravendyk Prize, that is open...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 30, Nov 1 to Jan 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
is a rose press publishes poetry, poetics, experimental writing, hybrid, cross-genre, and other work. They are a cooperative editorial board of writers in the virtual world. ...
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Jacar Press is a Community Active press publishing fine poetry from Pulitzer Prize winners to poets not yet known. Proceeds from all their publications will go to support...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
