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Small Presses
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 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Narrative Nonfiction, Regional -
Holland Park Press, founded in 2009, is a privately-owned independent company publishing literary fiction: novels, novellas, short stories; and poetry. The company is run by...
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Founded in 2011, Homebound Publications is one of the premier independent publishers in the country with the intention to preserve contemplative storytelling. The editors ...
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Hot Redhead Media is a small press that represents experimental and traditional literary work in multiple genres.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Howling Bird Press publishes the best in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We run an annual nationwide contest in alternating genres. We are the imprint of Augsburg...
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Hub City Press publishes books of literary fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, regional nonfiction, nature, and art. We are looking for well-crafted, high-quality works by...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 30, Sep 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Regional -
Ice Cube Press explores the pulse and voice of the Heartland through the use of the literary arts. How can people best live in Midwest. From fiction and fact, to journalism to...
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Ig Publishing is a New York-based award-winning independent press dedicated to publishing original literary fiction from writers who have been overlooked by the mainstream...
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Illuminated Press is a micro publisher that amplifies a wide range of voices through publishing. Writers of any age and experience whose work explores social, political, and/or...
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We publish a small number of literary works every year: poetry, short stories, scripts, and longer fiction. If you have a manuscript ready, we'd be very happy to read it and...
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The Inlandia Institute is a regionally-focused literary nonprofit and publishing house. We offer an annual poetry book competition, The Hillary Gravendyk Prize, that is open to...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 30, Nov 1 to Jan 30, Aug 1 to Aug 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Jacar Press is a Community Active press publishing fine poetry from Pulitzer Prize winners to poets not yet known. Proceeds from all our publications will go to support...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
JackLeg employs an environmentally sustainable publishing model and a rigorous editorial process to bring the best new and familiar voices into the literary world. At JackLeg,...
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Jaded Ibis is feminist press committed to publishing socially engaged literature with an emphasis on the voices of people of color, people with disabilities, and other...
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We publish the foremost in innovative fiction.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 1Genre: FictionSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction -
June Road Press aims to publish books that lead readers to new places of connection, understanding, and discovery—books that guide and enrich, that transport and inspire, that...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 25 to Jan 1Genre: Poetry -
k+p press was founded in 2020 by Beth Kantrowitz and Roberta Paul, childhood friends and longtime artistic collaborators, who were inspired to launch a new creative venture...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Jan 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction -
Kernpunkt is an independent publisher of experimental writing. We enjoy symbolism, non-traditional form, unique characters, and taboo. We like "challenging". In short, we...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction -
L+S Press is the book-publishing arm of Lines + Stars. Through L+S Press, we host the annual Mid-Atlantic Chapbook series, which publishes a poet’s first chapbook-...
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Lanternfish Press, founded in Philadelphia in 2013, publishes literature of the rare and strange: fiction that crosses the boundary between literary and speculative; real or...
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Latah Books is likeliest to accept full-length books with driving narrative force: literary and upmarket novels, as well as memoirs, travelogues, and other narrative nonfiction...
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Launch Point Press (LPP) is a lesbian-oriented press publishing quality works by newer authors now “launching” their careers or by more experienced authors...
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Lavender Ink is soliciting manuscripts in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and cultural criticism. Diálogos specializes in works of translation and cross-cultural issues. Please...
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Legacy Book Press is seeking to publish legacy stories, widely defined. It must be book-length (at least 100 pages) but can take the form of poetry, non-fiction, fiction, or...
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We seek chapbook and full-length poetry collections and have a wide aesthetic with a penchant for concision, strong imagery, inventive language, and emotional authenticity. A...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
