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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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: Sep 28 to Oct 19Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky.
Reading Period: Nov 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
FlowerSong Press Literary. Lyrical. Boundless.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
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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Forest Avenue Press publishes literary fiction on a joyride and the occasional memoir. We especially love working with BIPOC, queer, neurodivergent, and disabled authors.
Reading Period: Jan 3 to Feb 10Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction -
Foundlings seeks to publish—in paper and ink—the best writing. The press takes its ethic and aesthetic from the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church. Not all of it; just...
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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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,...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 15 to Jan 15, Jul 15 to Aug 15Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental -
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 Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: 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: Apr 1 to Apr 28Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
Gasher Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher founded by Whitney Koo in 2018. It is interested in fresh voices and innovative forms.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Get Fresh Books 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 Jun 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
Ghostbird Press exists to bring literature and visual art together through chapbooks.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Gibson House Press is a traditional independent publisher of literary fiction. We publish excellent novels written by working musicians and musicians at heart (thought the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 15 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Glass Lyre Press invites high quality manuscripts that reflect mature and seasoned writing with masterful imagery, lyricism, and emotional resonance. We are attracted to...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 15 to Apr 30, Aug 15 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry -
Gold Line Press, founded in 2010, aims to promote the work of emerging poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction writers, and to elevate the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Gold Wake Press is an independent literary house founded in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts, in 2008 by Jared Michael Wahlgren, who ran the press until 2014. Kyle McCord,...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Sep 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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: Aug 15 to Dec 30Subgenres: 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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 NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Prose Poetry -
We publish the annual Wishing Jewel Prize-winner, awarded for a manuscript that challenges expectations of what a book of poems can be; the Essential Voices anthology series;...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
We are predominantly an environmentally-focused publisher of novels, poetry, memoir, essays, and some science writing. Our list is nature-based and environmental, and our...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to May 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental
