Southeast Missouri State University Press, founded in 2001, serves as a first-rate publisher in an underpublished area of the nation.
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 Nov 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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SFK Press is an independent publisher based in Metro Atlanta. The path for an artist to reach a wider audience is no longer exclusively controlled by corporate gatekeepers...
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We seek weird, innovative, and optimistic science fiction from new and published authors. Quality, inventive, and engaging prose, plus fun new ideas, will catch our eyes every...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction -
Missouri and Kansas poets
Reading Period: Jan 1Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Regional -
Please read previously published worked to get an idea what we are looking for. Don't just send your MS blindly. We are punk rock publishing. We are looking for energy and edge...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction -
We’re interested in writers who read vigorously and are invested in the continued advancement and development of both "print" and digital writing. We’re looking for artists...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Aug 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Prose Poetry -
Spurl Editions (est. 2015) is an independent publisher of unusual literature and photography, specializing in works fitting for “our current decrepit and apocalyptic world.”...
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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Stay Weird and Keep Writing Print Co is a non-profit, Independent publishing company. It is connected to the Facebook group "Notes From the Edge". Stay Weird and Keep Writing...
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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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Stubborn Mule press publishes a combination of collected works of established poets, first time full-lengths for quality and dedicated emerging poets, and splits for everyone...
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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: Apr 15 to Jun 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...
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We are interested in creating conversational spaces, and pieces that provoke thought-change. We want to hear from new voices and emerging voices as well as our literary mentors...
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We publish a wide range of fiction and nonfiction.
We do not publish poetry or children's picture books.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream publishes different theme based issues 11 times a year. Ten Penny Players/BardPress chapbooks by invitation only. No unsolicited manuscripts...
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Reading Period: 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 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Translation -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
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Thirty West covers primarily poetry, yet have indulged in fiction and nonfiction. We've published literary work as well as speculative, cross-genre, and work derived from...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 19 to Nov 21Genre: 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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Novels - 60,000 words and up.
Reading Period: May 1 to Jul 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Literary Fiction -
Thurston Howl Publications is a small progressive publishing house in Lansing, Michigan. We have specialized in animal fiction and evocative literature.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction