Spurl Editions (est. 2015) is an independent publisher of unusual literature and photography, specializing in works fitting for “our current decrepit and apocalyptic world.”...
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: FictionSubgenres: LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Translation -
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: PoetrySubgenres: 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We publish a wide range of fiction and nonfiction.
We do not publish poetry or children's picture books.
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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”—between persons, planets, symbols, etc.—...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Translation -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 27 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Historical, Humor, Religious/Spiritual, War -
The Toad Press International Chapbook Series publishes contemporary, exciting, beautiful, odd, and avant-garde chapbook-length translations of poetry and prose.
Reading Period: Oct 15 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
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 NonfictionSubgenres: 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...
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TouchPoint Press, a traditional royalty paying publisher of digital and print fiction and nonfiction, strives to be innovative and energetic in all we do from acquisitions to...
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Transformation Media Books is dedicated to publishing innovative works that nourish the body, mind and spirit, written by authors whose ideas and messages make a difference in...
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Transit Books is a nonprofit publisher of international and American literature, based in Oakland, California. Founded in 2015, Transit Books is committed to the discovery and...
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Trembling Pillow Press publishes new and established authors focusing on works that are experimental with a preference for poetics based on anthropological, archaeological,...
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We publish anything that can be seen as a ‘systems thinking’ approach to government, society, the environment, organization management, leadership, walking, somatics,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political -
Trio House Press is an independent literary press publishing three or more collections of poems annually. We offer two annual poetry awards, the Trio Award for First or Second...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry
