Vine Leaves Press likes to blur the line between commercial and experimental works. They publish biography/autobiography, creative nonfiction, reference books, short story...
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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: Dec 1 to Jan 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Young Adult
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Vulgar Marsala Press was founded in 2009 and revamped in 2020. In a nutshell, the editors seek to facilitate the internal bleeding of poetry and fiction into arthouse cinema,...
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The Washington Writers' Publishing House is open to all genres that lean into the literary. We seek works that deepen/question the human experience. As a DC-based press, our...
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Wave Books is an independent poetry press based in Seattle, Washington, dedicated to publishing poetry and books by poets.
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Charlie Wright, Publisher...Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Political, Prose Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
The Made in Michigan Writers Series is a literary book series from Wayne State University Press, a distinctive publisher of exceptional books and journals based in and shaped...
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Waywiser publishes literary works by new and established authors, and is also interested in restoring the reputations of writers overlooked or suffering undue neglect.
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Wet Cement Press is a small press based in Berkeley, California, with editors in Reno, Nevada, and Asheville, North Carolina. The press typically publishes three to five books...
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What Books Press was founded in 2009 to create an outlet for groundbreaking fiction, poetry, and translation. The editors are strongly committed to new, innovative...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation -
Whiskey Tit attempts to restore degradation and degeneracy to the literary arts. They’re pretty sure they are succeeding here. This is usually because the works don’t fit...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Flash Fiction -
Whittle Micro-Press places value in micro-chapbooks that are inarguably cohesive, with pieces that build upon or inform one another in a way that is thematically evident and...
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Wising Up Press is a press with a clear social mission, fostering an appreciation of the rewards and challenges of pluralism at every level in society, and, most importantly,...
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Wolfson Press publishes books in the arts and humanities, including literary titles. Through our poetry and prose book contests, we publish national and international writers....
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Wordrunner eChapbooks publishes two mini collections of prose in September and December, each by one author, both online and in e-book format, and an annual themed anthology of...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28, Jun 15 to Jul 15, Sep 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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WTAW Press is an independent literary press devoted to discovering and publishing enduring works. WTAW publishes a carefully curated list of titles across a range of genres (...
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YesYes Books has been publishing provocative collections of poetry, fiction, and experimental art since 2011. The editors look for work that acknowledges and celebrates their...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Aug 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Prose Poetry -
A series of the University of Nebraska Press, Zero Street Fiction is committed to quality LGBTQ+ literary fiction of all kinds, from stories of modern life to historical...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Apr 1Genre: FictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction



















