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.
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: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
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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. ...
Reading Period: Jan 4 to Feb 6Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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. 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 -
Gasher Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher founded in 2018. It is interested in fresh voices and innovative forms.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Ghostbird Press exists to bring literature and visual art together through chapbooks.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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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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 -
Graywolf Press is a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of twenty-first century American and international literature. They...
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Green Writers Press is a predominantly an environmentally focused publisher of novels, poetry, memoir, essays, and some science writing. Their list is nature-based and...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Feb 28, May 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Halbaffe Press is a small independent publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Specializing in poetry, the press also accepts fiction and nonfiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Established in 2015, Half Mystic Press is an international, independent, and interdisciplinary publishing house dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Hanging Loose Press seeks to make the publishing tent as big as the press can make it, uplifting emerging and underrepresented poets and writers.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Harvard Square Editions is looking for literary fiction and nonfiction of social and environmental value. Its mission is transcend national boundaries, publishing manuscripts...
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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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
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...
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Howling Bird Press publishes the best in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. They run an annual nationwide contest in alternating genres. They are the imprint of Augsburg...
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Founded in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1995, Hub City Press is the South’s premier independent literary press. Focused on finding and spotlighting extraordinary new and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Regional -
Ice Cube Press explores the pulse and voice of the Heartland through the use of the literary arts. How can people best live in the Midwest, from fiction and fact, to journalism...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Ig Publishing is a New York-based award-winning independent press dedicated to publishing original literary fiction from writers who have been overlooked by the mainstream...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation