Cuidono Press publishes fiction, historical fiction, and history. They look for narratives that take history and culture seriously, whether in service to a great story or in...
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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: Jul 1 to Aug 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Historical, Literary Fiction -
Dusty Trails Books is a new small press that focuses on American history from the 1840s to the Dust Bowl era.
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Dynamo Verlag publishes works demonstrating nontraditional poetics: genius, eclecticism, and originality.
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Dzanc Books was created in 2006 to advance great writing and champion those writers who don't fit neatly into the marketing niches of for-profit presses and to advance literary...
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Eggtooth Editions holds an annual chapbook contest for any genre of writing, including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, plays, and hybrid/cross-genre/multi-genre work. The...
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Etchings Press is UIndy’s teaching press and publishing laboratory. Writers from around the world submit recently published books to the Whirling Prize in the fall in response...
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fhp, imprint of Sleepy Lemur Quality Enterprises, publishes poetry and prose chapbooks and broadsides in limited editions; established in the early 2000s, fhp editors encourage...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Fat Dog Books is an independent online publisher founded on the premise that if their experience with reading a manuscript is satisfying and engages their intellect and...
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Looking for fresh, diverse, original voices for both nonfiction and fiction books. We specialize in the following genres. Nonfiction: pop culture, true crime, and sports....
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Finishing Line Press an award-winning BIPOC + women-owned and -operated small press publisher located in Georgetown, Kentucky. Since 1998. FLP is a proud member of CLMP.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
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Forest Avenue Press publishes literary fiction on a joyride and the occasional memoir. They especially love working with BIPOC, queer, neurodivergent, and disabled authors. ...
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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...
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Four Way Books is dedicated to producing and promoting excellent literary publications and to creating opportunities for writers of merit. They seek to please and expand poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30, Jan 1 to Mar 31, Nov 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Fruit Bat Press is a handmade, limited edition chapbook press that is based in Chicago and Los Angeles. Fruit bats inspire them because they are dark and sweet at the same time...
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Galileo Press is seeking: vivid imagery and the balance of abstract to concrete imagery, the capacity to surprise, an elastic syntax, pace, and music, thematic cohesiveness and...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices -
Game Over Books is a small publisher run collaboratively by a group of nerdy artists. Their goal is to amplify diverse voices in writing and bring high-quality publications to...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
Gold Line Press, founded in 2010, aims to promote the work of emerging poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction writers, and to elevate the chapbook form. The ...
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Green Writers Press is an environmentally focused publisher of novels, poetry, memoir, essays, and some science writing. Their list is nature-based and environmental, and their...
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Grid Books is a publisher of poetry, fiction, and fine art editions foregrounding creative work that springs from the margins and promoting work that reflects a diversity of...
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Halbaffe Press is a small independent publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Specializing in poetry, the press also accepts fiction and nonfiction.
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Established in 2015, Half Mystic Press is an international, independent, and interdisciplinary publishing house dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms.
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Harvard Square Editions is looking for nonfiction and fiction of social and environmental value. Its mission is to transcend national boundaries, publishing books that are...
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Heyday is an independent, nonprofit publisher with a focus on California and the American West. They publish nonfiction books that explore history, celebrate Native cultural...
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Created as a response to a changing marketplace by publishing industry veterans, High Frequency publishes only the highest quality work—work the editors believe in...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
