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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: FictionSubgenres: Experimental, Humor, Literary Fiction -
96th of October Editions concentrates on literary science fiction and fantasy writing and poetry. It is particularly interested in LGBT voices and writing by women. All writing...
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Under their Bolden imprint, Agate Publishing publishes fiction, nonfiction, and memoirs by Black American authors. Under their Midway imprint, they publish nonfiction with a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Regional -
Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing literary fiction, crime fiction, music/pop culture books, and political nonfiction by authors who...
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akinoga press is a Baltimore-based micro press that specialzes in hand-bound chapbooks of a spacious/minimalist/austere flavor, though on the lookout for anything small, quiet...
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Another New Calligraphy has enjoyed the quiet thrill of making and sharing since 2009. ANC guides writers and musicians in the realization of their work via the production of...
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Antenna Press is the publishing arm of Antenna dedicated to publishing books from cultural contributors who produce projects at the intersection of gender and identity, the...
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Anvil Press is a Vancouver literary press founded in 1991. Now in its 25th year of publishing, Anvil has firmly established itself as a publisher of progressive, contemporary...
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Apprentice House is the nation’s first entirely student-managed book publisher. Students at Loyola University Maryland are responsible for every aspect of the publishing...
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April Gloaming Publishing is a nonprofit Nashville-based independent press that aims to capture and better understand the Southern soul, Southern writing, and the Southern...
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Aquarius Press develops, publishes and promotes talented writers typically underrepresented in the literary marketplace. The Willow Books division specializes in the works of...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Jul 31, Sep 1 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Arte Público Press is a nonprofit literary publisher based at the University of Houston. It is mission driven, publishing U.S. Hispanic literature, both contemporary and...
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Ashland Creek Press is a small, independent publisher of books for a better planet. Its mission is to publish a range of books that foster an appreciation for worlds outside...
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Assure Press connects authors and artists with the world through inspirational and enlightening poetry, nonfiction, motivational, and educational literature that is mostly, but...
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Aubade Publishing publishes speculative fiction, historical fiction, and gothic literature as well as poetry collections. They also publish sports memiors. Please do not submit...
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Augury Books is an independent press based in Brooklyn. Committed to publishing innovative work from emerging and established writers, Augury Books seeks to reaffirm the...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, War, Young Adult
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Autumn House Press is a nationally renowned nonprofit publisher based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose mission is to publish and promote poetry and other fine...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28, Mar 1 to Apr 30, May 1 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Awst Press publishes a wide range of work across perspectives, genres, and subjects. In addition to full-length books, they have hosted essay series, and their Pocketbooks...
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Baobab Press seeks books that communicate and support their themes through new and well-articulated means. They like risk. They like invention. More importantly, they look for...
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BatCat Press publishes limited handbound editions of awesome poetry and prose. They aim to publish books, chapbooks, and broadsides that are the perfect combination of...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to May 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
Bella Books publishes lesbian/sapphic fiction of all genres, and is known for award-winning and best-selling f/f romance, mystery, fantasy, paranormal and general fiction.
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Bellevue Literary Press is devoted to publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences because they believe that science and the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction -
Writing about and from the Rust Belt, smart narrative and serious nonfiction, fiction with a regional foothold, cultural criticism, urbanism, progressive politics, scholarly...
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BLP is currently accepting engaging stories in search of a great home. Main themes explore the liminal world where anything can happen. Liminal is anything “in-between” or “...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult
