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...
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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: 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 -
Gnashing Teeth Publishing is committed to including underrepresented voices. They look for unique work with different perspectives, poems which make them hold their breath,...
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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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Golden Antelope Press is a small press operated in conjunction with, or spun off from, its sister presses, the more scholarly Blazing Sapphire and Naciketas Presses. The focus...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jul 13Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Feminist, Historical, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
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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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 (women's, men's, other, uncomfortable truths, red pill, diverse) of social/environmental value. Its mission is to...
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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...
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Host’s mission as an independent, intersectional feminist press is to publish groundbreaking poetry by women writers, BIPOC writers, LGBTQ+ writers, writers of a lower...
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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 -
Founded in 2022, Hyssop Press is an independent publisher dedicated to nurturing new and established authors. The editors believe in investing time and resources into each...
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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...
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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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is a rose press publishes poetry, poetics, experimental writing, hybrid, cross-genre, and other work. They are a cooperative editorial board of writers in the virtual world. ...
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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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Journal of Experimental Fiction (JEF) Books publishes the foremost in innovative fiction.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 1Genre: FictionSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction -
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 -
Lanternfish Press, founded in Philadelphia in 2014, 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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Launch Point Press (LPP) is a lesbian-oriented press publishing quality works by newer authors now “launching” their careers or by more experienced authors...
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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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
