Shanti Arts Publishing is devoted to producing beautiful and compelling books related to art, nature, and spirit. Currently, the press is giving preference to 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: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Sheila-Na-Gig online/Sheila-Na-Gig Editions seeks well-crafted poems with excellent imagery and a strong sense of voice. Our bias leans toward free verse, but we are also open...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Micro-poetry
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Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for Northern California poets. Founded in 1999 by...
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Slapering Hol Press (SHP) advances the national and international conversation of poetry and poetics. The small press imprint of the Hudson Valley Writers Center is one of the...
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Sponsors an annual Poetry Chapbook Contest offering $1,000 prize and 25 copies. Details at www.slipstreampress.org/guide....
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Solum Literary Press currently publishes poetry chapbooks and collections, novellas, novels, and short story collections.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual -
The Song Cave is dedicated to recovering a lost sensibility and creating a new one by publishing books of poetry, translations, art criticism, and making art prints and other...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Translation -
South Broadway Press is a publisher of poetry through books, print journals, and on their online journal.
Reading Period: Jun 21 to Sep 14Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Spaceboy Books seeks weird, innovative, and optimistic science fiction from new and published authors. Quality, inventive, and engaging prose, plus fun new ideas, will catch...
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Sterncastle Publishing is an independent, traditional publisher focusing on fiction, folklore, poetry, memoir, and biography. Sterncastle’s mission is to broaden the literary...
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Stillhouse Press publishes surprising, gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that can’t or doesn’t want to find a home in big publishing. The editors are drawn to the strange,...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Feb 1, Mar 1 to May 1, Jun 1 to Aug 1, Aug 1 to Nov 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary press collective founded in 2000, Sundress Publications is entirely volunteer-run, publishes chapbooks and full-length works in both print and...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to May 31, Jun 1 to Aug 31, Dec 1 to Feb 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, LGBTQ Voices, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Susquehanna University Press publishes book-length literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. The editors look for work that will appeal to local, regional, and...
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Sword & Kettle Press is a cooperative publishing house for queer & intersectional speculative literature. Established in 2015 and incorporated as a worker-owned press...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry -
Terrapin Books is a small press for poetry books. They publish single author full-length collections, an occasional anthology, and craft books. They run two open reading...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 24 to Feb 28, Aug 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry -
Thirty West Publishing House is open to many literary themes and poetic forms and styles. Think of how you can escape the mundane before you submit. The succinct, the...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jul 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction -
Reading Period: Dec 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry
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Trio House Press publishes literary creative nonfiction and poetry that highlights voices, topics, and angles that are underrepresented in contemporary literature, and that...
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TSEHAI Publishers is an international press dedicated to transforming writers into authors. It selects powerful, original works that advance intercultural dialogue and social...
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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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Twelve House Books is an independent publisher of Speculative Fiction, Quirk, and Poetry.
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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. ...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to May 31, Sep 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry -
Ugly Duckling Presse is a non-profit publisher of poetry, translation, experimental prose, performance texts, and books by artists. UDP favors emerging, international, and “...
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Works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. The press publishes the winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, and the Iowa Poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
