Not a Cult is a multi-media production house creating books of fine art and poetry, records, and large-scale creative projects. The not a cult group collaborates closely with...
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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: Oct 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
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Nouvella is an independent publisher dedicated to novellas.
Established in 2011, Nouvella utilizes the LAUNCH program, wherein the reading community can invest in the...
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Poetry manuscripts of 50 to 80 pages are considered annually in May for the FIELD Poetry Prize. For translations, send sample of poems to David Young, co-editor, and inquire as...
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Off the Grid Press is dedicated to publishing collections by poets over sixty years old.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Translation
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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Open Books Press is dedicated to publishing quality books. When we're open for submissions, we accept adult nonfiction, and fiction for all ages (including some YA and children...
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Open Country Press was established in 2016 by Natalie Peeterse, who runs the press along with Autumn Toennis. The press’ mission is to publish high quality and dynamic literary...
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Open Letter—the University of Rochester's nonprofit, literary translation press—is one of only a handful of publishing houses dedicated to increasing access to world literature...
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The OS is most interested in supporting those who are interested in supporting each other and the community: we care less about your pedigree and more about your energy. We...
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The mission of the Origami Poems Project™ is the encouragement of literature & the arts by bringing free poetry to everyone through the printing and distribution of free...
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Orison Books is a 501(c)(3) non-profit literary press focused on the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives.
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An independent publisher of poetry that runs counter to the mainstream. Seeking the singular. Ornithopter Press has published individual collections by contemporary authors ...
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Other Press attracts authors who are guided by a passion to discover the limits of knowledge and imagination. We publish novels, short stories, and essays from America and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Historical, Political, Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction -
Provocative reading. Literary, engaged, independent, forward-leaning. Exceptional fiction. Unexpected essays. Voices to be reckoned with... Our fiction belongs to a broad range...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Formal Poetry, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Translation, War -
Each annual anthology offers $1000 in cash prizes for poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction on a given theme. The theme for 2018, 23rd in our acclaimed Black-and-White series...
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Overcup Press is an independent publishing house with national distribution.
Query letters on these nonfiction topics are of particular interest:
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As a highly selective press, we publish only 2-4 full-length works a year. Owl House Books specializes in genre fiction. We seek works of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and...
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Bringing together poets and artists to create affordable letterpress printed poetry booklets (pamphlets).
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PALH or Philippine American Literary House is a small press that publishes high quality fiction and creative non-fiction books by Filipino Americans and other Filipinos....
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Established in 2016, PALOMA PRESS is a San Francisco Bay Area-based independent literary press publishing poetry, prose, and limited edition books. We donate a portion of our ...
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At Pandamoon, we are entrepreneurs at heart, filled with the drive and passion to create the changes we want to see in the publishing world. A world where all talented voices...
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We like the experimental as well as the accessible; we love prose poems and erasures, but also sonnets and sestinas. Many people associate chapbooks with only poetry, but we're...
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Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, publishes print and digital publications featuring new works of scholars, researchers, and poets....
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Parlor Press's primary goal is to publish outstanding writing and scholarship in a variety of subjects for a broad range of readers. We value excellence,...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 1Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Prose Poetry, Translation