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...
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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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Southeast Missouri State University Press, founded in 2001, serves as a first-rate publisher in an underpublished area of the nation.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Nov 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
SFK Press is an independent publisher based in Metro Atlanta. The path for an artist to reach a wider audience is no longer exclusively controlled by corporate gatekeepers...
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We seek weird, innovative, and optimistic science fiction from new and published authors. Quality, inventive, and engaging prose, plus fun new ideas, will catch our eyes every...
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Please read previously published worked to get an idea what we are looking for. Don't just send your MS blindly. We are punk rock publishing. We are looking for energy and edge...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Jul 1 to Sep 1, Oct 1 to Dec 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Commercial Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction -
Spurl Editions (est. 2015) is an independent publisher of unusual literature and photography, specializing in works fitting for “our current decrepit and apocalyptic world.”...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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At Stillhouse Press we are committed to publishing writers, both emerging and established. We focus specifically on the idea "craft publishing," working with our authors to...
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A 501(c)(3) non-profit literary press collective founded in 2000, Sundress Publications is entirely volunteer-run, publishes chapbooks and full-length works in both print and...
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The Gatewood Prize is Switchback Books' annual competition for a first or second full-length (48-80 pp.) collection of poems by a woman writing in the English language. It is...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 15Genre: PoetryGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Micro-poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry -
Established in 2015, Sword & Kettle Press is a tiny independent publishing house. Our mission is to publish inclusive feminist fantasy & speculative fiction. We look...
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We publish a wide range of fiction and nonfiction.
We do not publish poetry or children's picture books.
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Founded in 2021 by husband and wife team Grace and Tyler Wittkofsky, Tea With Coffee Media is a team of indie authors, designers, and editors who have a goal of helping indie...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
Reading Period: Jan 24 to Feb 28, Aug 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry
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Named after the “American haiku” co-invented by Jack Collom and Robert Kelly, and inspired by the sense of poetry as correspondence, The Lune's first editions were...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
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We are open to many literary themes and poetic forms & styles. Never really pigeonholed ourselves to one market. We enjoy the succinct, the startling, and the sublime. Some...
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Three Rooms Press is a fierce New York-based independent publisher inspired by dada, punk, and passion. Founded in 1993, it serves as a leading independent publisher of cut-the...
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Thurston Howl Publications is a small progressive publishing house in Lansing, Michigan. We have specialized in animal fiction and evocative literature.
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Reading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry
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Our primary focus is in the following genres of fiction:
Fantasy — Norse Mythology, Gaslamp, Humorous, Urban
SciFi — Steam Punk, Space Opera, Post Apoc, Humorous...
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The Toad Press International Chapbook Series publishes contemporary, exciting, beautiful, odd, and avant-garde chapbook-length translations of poetry and prose.
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We're into books that use separate parts to make a whole: poetry, short stories, comics poetry, hybrids, photo stories, new styles that we haven't thought of yet.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Torrey House Press is an independent nonprofit publisher promoting environmental conservation through literature. We strive to identify exceptional writers, nurture their work...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
