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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, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Founded in 2010, Sibling Rivalry Press is an independent publishing house based just outside of Little Rock, Arkansas, in the small town of Alexander. Their mission is to...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Love, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional -
Siglio publishes uncommon books that live in the rich and varied space between art and literature. Driven by its feminist ethos, Siglio champions uncategorizable, unwieldy, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Graphic/Illustrated, LGBTQ Voices, Visual Poetry -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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Split/Lip Press is dedicated to publishing boundary-breaking fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid books, lifting the transition boards that prevent fluidity and smashing those they...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 1, Apr 1 to Jun 1, Jul 1 to Sep 1, Oct 1 to Dec 1Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
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Sterncastle Publishing is an independent, traditional publisher focusing on fiction, folklore, poetry, memoir, and biography. Sterncastle’s mission is to broaden the literary...
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Stillhouse Press is committed to publishing writers, both emerging and established. They focus specifically on the idea “craft publishing,” working with authors to bring their...
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A 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary press collective founded in 2000, Sundress Publications is entirely volunteer-run, publishes chapbooks and full-length works in both print and...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 31, Dec 1 to Feb 28, Mar 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Susquehanna University Press publishes book-length literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. The editors look for work that will appeal to local, regional, and...
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Established in 2015, Sword & Kettle Press is a tiny independent publishing house. They publish inclusive feminist fantasy and speculative writing, create resources for...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Jan 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry -
TCK Publishing publishes a wide range of nonfiction and are currently accepting book proposals. They do not publish poetry or children’s picture books.
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Thirty West Publishing House is open to many literary themes and poetic forms and styles. Never really pigeonholed themselves to one market. They enjoy the succinct, the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: 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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Tolsun Books is into books that use separate parts to make a whole: poetry, short stories, comics poetry, hybrids, photo stories, new styles that they haven’t thought of yet....
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Jul 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Transformation Media Books is dedicated to publishing innovative works that nourish the body, mind and spirit, written by authors whose ideas and messages make a difference in...
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Transit Books is a nonprofit publisher of international and American literature based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2015, Transit Books is committed to the...
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The Trio Award for First or Second Book for emerging poets and the Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence for a book of poems contributing in an innovative and...
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TSEHAI Publishers is an international press dedicated to transforming writers into authors. It selects powerful, original works that advance intercultural dialogue and social...
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Tupelo Press, which released its first five books in fall 2001, is an independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and...
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Twelve House Books is an independent publisher that releases a variety of fiction and poetry every year. The Acquisitions Editor looks for...
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Twisted Road Publications seeks to publish gifted writers whose works are underrepresented by corporate marketing. They are partial to the writer who possesses a gift for...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction -
Ugly Duckling Presse is a mission-driven small press that publishes poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. UDP favors emerging,...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Aug 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Unbound Edition Press is guided by a mission to respect and elevate emerging, underappreciated, and marginalized authors, with a strong commitment to advancing LGBTQ+ and BIPOC...
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Works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. The press publishes the winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the Iowa Poetry Prize, novels, poetry anthologies, books...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
