Illuminated Press is a micro publisher that amplifies a wide range of voices through publishing. Writers of any age and experience whose work explores social, political, and/or...
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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: Jan 1 to Jan 31, Aug 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
In Case Of Emergency Press publishes a small number of literary works every year: poetry, short stories, scripts, and longer fiction. If you have a manuscript ready, they’d be...
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The Inlandia Institute is a regionally-focused literary nonprofit and publishing house. They offer an annual poetry book competition, the Hillary Gravendyk Prize, that is open...
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JackLeg employs an environmentally sustainable publishing model and a rigorous editorial process to bring the best new and familiar voices into the literary world. JackLeg...
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Jaded Ibis is feminist press committed to publishing socially engaged literature with an emphasis on the voices of people of color, people with disabilities, and other...
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k+p press was founded in 2020 by Beth Kantrowitz and Roberta Paul, childhood friends and longtime artistic collaborators, who were inspired to launch a new creative venture...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Jan 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction -
Kernpunkt Press is an independent publisher of experimental literary works.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction -
Lanternfish Press, founded in Philadelphia in 2013, publishes literature of the rare and strange: fiction that crosses the boundary between literary and speculative; real or...
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Latah Books is likeliest to accept full-length books with driving narrative force: literary and upmarket novels, as well as memoirs, travelogues, and other narrative nonfiction...
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Lavender Ink publishes full-length (i.e. over a hundred pages) poetry, fiction, nonfiction, cultural/literary criticism, and hybrid genres. Diálogos publishes the same genres...
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Legacy Book Press, LLC is a traditional publisher seeking to traditionally publish personal stories, widely defined. It must be book-length (at least 100 pages) but can take...
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The goal of Little Red Tree Publishing is to publish books that are accessible to everyone, combining their desire to educate and their love of quality books with an interest...
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Longship Press is a small-press publishing company based in Marin County, California. Its aim is to give voice to writers and canvas to artists. Providing the printed page to...
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Established in 1978, Loom Press publishes books by emerging writers and artists from the New England area. In addition to poetry, Loom Press titles range from documentary...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Regional -
Los Nietos Press is looking for book-length works of poetry and/or short story. They are looking for work that is about the person, but also about place; work that sheds light...
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Lost Telegram Press is now accepting query letters to hear about new projects for publication. The editors are happy to read queries about projects that are conceptual in...
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MadHat Press is a leading publisher of unique and vital contemporary poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and criticism. It seeks to foster the work of writers and poets: explosive,...
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The mission of Madville Publishing is to produce, publish, and market literary works of the highest quality that reflect the diversity of the modern English-speaking world....
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Main Street Rag is best known for publishing poetry, but they also publish novels, novellas, short story collections, and essay collections. Guidelines are on their website....
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Resonant writing in most genres. For 40+ years, Manic D has published a diverse spectrum of titles by a wide range of writers.
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El Martillo Press publishes writers whose pens strike the page with clear intent; words with purpose to pry apart assumed norms and to hammer away at injustice. El Martillo...
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Mayapple Press is a small literary press founded in 1978 by poet and editor Judith Kerman. They focus on literature not often celebrated by either the mainstream or the avant-...
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An independent house since 1974, McPherson & Company publishes contemporary English and American fiction, 20th century international fiction in translation, nonfiction in...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Historical, Literary Fiction, Translation -
Specializing in books by authors from the heartland since 2014, Meadowlark Press is an independent publisher, born of a desire to produce high-quality books for print and...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir -
Milkweed Editions is one of the nation’s leading independent, nonprofit literary publishers, releasing twenty to thirty new books each year in the genres of fiction, nonfiction...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Feb 28, Jul 1 to Oct 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
