A small, independent, not-for-profit press, FC2's mission is to publish books of high quality and exceptional ambition whose style, subject matter, or form...
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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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Fence has a mission to redefine the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by...
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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky. FLP is a proud member of APSS/SPAN, and IBPA.
Reading Period: Nov 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
FlowerSong Press nurtures essential verse from, about, and through the borderlands. Literary. Lyrical. Boundless.
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Flowstone Press publishes contemporary poetry collections and chapbooks. Our tastes are eclectic, but we’ll lean toward the lyrical, psychological, environmental, cultural, and...
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FootHills Publishing was formed in 1986 for the purpose of getting into print the words of poets who found it hard to get their work out to the public other than at readings or...
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Forest Avenue Press, winner of an Oregon Literary Fellowship, publishes page-turning literary fiction. Its titles are infused with a fresh, complex, sometimes nutty, and often-...
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We seek to publish—in paper and ink—the best writing. We take our ethic and aesthetic from the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church. Not all of it; just Canon 1115, which...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Four Way Books is dedicated to producing and promoting excellent literary publications and to creating opportunities for writers of merit. We seek to please and expand poetry’s...
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Fruit Bat Press is a handmade, limited edition chapbook press that is co-based in Chicago and Los Angeles. Fruit bats inspire us because they are dark and sweet at the same...
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Furniture Press is a publisher of strangely poetical texts and ephemera, all which play at (but are not limited to) intertextuality and appropriation. Some want to call it...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Prose Poetry, Translation -
We strive to preserve for posterity poetry from imaginative, highly skilled contemporary poets, whether well-known or emerging. We abhor the myopic, self-absorbed, and sloppy,...
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Futurepoem books is a New York City-based publishing collaborative dedicated to presenting innovative works of contemporary poetry and prose by both emerging and important...
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We are seeking: vivid imagery and the balance of abstract to concrete imagery, the capacity to surprise, an elastic syntax, pace, and music, thematic cohesiveness and the...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jun 22Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices -
Game Over Books is a small publisher run collaboratively by a group of nerdy artists. Our goal is to amplify diverse voices in writing and bring high-quality publications to...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 28, Jun 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
Get Fresh Books LLC is a cooperative press, where our authors, editors, and the publisher create and pursue a vision for the writer's work.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
Ghostbird Press exists to bring literature and visual art together through chapbooks.
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A traditional press based in the Chicago area, Gibson House Press publishes literary fiction. Writers are invited to submit complete full-length novel manuscripts (50-80,000-...
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We publish quality works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have a message, be it philosophical or social by authors from many walks of life. Many of our books promote...
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Glass Lyre Press invites high quality manuscripts that reflect mature and seasoned writing with masterful imagery, lyricism, and emotional resonance. We are attracted to...
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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...
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Gold Wake holds two Open Reading periods per year, held in the spring and fall, and open to full-length manuscripts in all genres. We do not charge a separate contest/...
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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: Apr 15 to Aug 30Genres: Cross-genre, Feminist, Historical, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
Graywolf Press is a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. We champion...
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Great Weather for MEDIA focuses on the unpredictable, the fearless, the bright, the dark, and the innovative… We are based in New York City and showcase both national and...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 15 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Prose Poetry
