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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 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
IFWG Publishing is an international, small press specialising in speculative and children’s fiction. We were founded in 2010 with the mission to support new writers by...
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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 interested in amplifying unheard voices through publishing. Writers of any age and experience whose work explores social, political, and/or economic topics...
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ILOANBooks is a publishing collective specializing in low circulation prose poetry, often with illustrations or photography. We take pride in publishing brilliant, and perhaps...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Prose Poetry -
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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Indigent Press is a grassroots micro press dedicated to publishing high quality, limited run, poetry chapbooks by a diverse group of poets with unique...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
Ink & Quill Publishing is an imprint of Mystic Publishers Inc. Our company was founded in July 2014. Our aim, "A Fresh Approach to an Old Idea," is to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 10Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction -
We are looking for Horror, Fantasy and Sci-Fi and their many sub genres.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
The Inlandia Institute is a regionally-focused literary nonprofit and publishing house. We are primarily interested in works written by authors who have a tie to the Inland...
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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 our publications will go to support...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Formal Poetry, Humor, Love, Nature/Environmental, Political, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Translation, War -
JackLeg is a literary press dedicated to the writers we serve and the readers we cherish. We publish all forms of literature, including poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction,...
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We are a feminist press committed to publishing socially engaged literature with an emphasis on the voices of people of color, people with disabilities, and other historically...
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Our mission at Jamii Publishing is to foster the communion of artists from all genres, foster growth in the artistic world, and to bring these arts to the community. We strive...
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We publish the foremost in innovative fiction.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 1Genre: FictionSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction -
Jolly Fish Press is an imprint of North Star Editions, Inc., an independent publisher based in Minnesota. We are dedicated to promoting exceptional, unique new voices in...
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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...
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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: FictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction -
Currently we only publish books by a small roster of authors who are interested in releasing multiple books with us, rather than publishing anywhere and everywhere, as quickly...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Humor, Formal Poetry, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction, Literary Fiction -
Founded in 1993, Kore Press publishes works of literary and artistic value by women, including those traditionally underrepresented in the cultural mainstream; promotes those...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Kudzu Leaf Press (formerly Kudzu Editions) publishes poetry chapbooks and full-length poetry volumes. To date, manuscripts have been selected by invitation only.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
KYSO, pronounced “kye sew,” is an acronym for Knock Your Socks Off, which refers to just the kind of electrified words and images we like to publish and showcase.
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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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
