2Leaf Press is a Black/Brown female-led press whose mission is to publish multigenerational and multicultural poets, authors, artists, activists, and scholars who share stories...
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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 Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Historical, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Translation -
2River prefers poems with these qualities: image, subtlety, and point of view; a surface of worldly exactitude, as well as a depth of semantic ambiguity; and a voice that...
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3 Mile Harbor Press is committed to publishing the best diverse work by new and established poets and is particularly interested in finding LGBQT+, BIPOC, feminist, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
3: A Taos Press is a multicultural and ethically voiced independent press. Their poetry books always have a tight theme in each of them. They do not publish collected works of...
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42 Miles Press publishes full-length books of poetry, including the winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize. They’re in Indiana. They like images, they like the music of...
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96th of October Editions concentrates on literary SF/Fantasy writing and poetry. It is particularly interested in LGBT voices and writing by women. All writing that is...
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Able Muse Press publishes emerging and established poets and writers, and anthologies of poetry, fiction, and art. They also publish periodical print versions of Able Muse...
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Airlie Press is a nonprofit publisher run by writers, dedicated to cultivating and sustaining fine contemporary poetry and to promoting poets from the Pacific Northwest and...
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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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Alabaster Leaves Publishing is for emerging poets. There are no style requirements. Manuscripts are accepted year-round.
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AJB is a leading independent press devoted to discovering and publishing exceptional poetry by emerging and established writers. The press is an innovator in the field,...
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Alternating Current Press is an indie press dedicated to publishing and promoting incredible literature that challenges readers and has an innate sense of self, timelessness,...
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Alternative Field Notes (and imprint of Alternative Field) welcomes dialogue, discourse, and cooperative thinking in ways that may instigate curiosity, criticism, action,...
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Anima is a small press founded in 2015. It aims to provide a home for contemporary poems which challenge the materialist paradigm of Western culture, ...
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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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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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Apogee Press publishes the work of innovative and experimental poets. Culturally and formally diverse, their poets share an original use of language.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental -
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 -
Argos Books is an independent literary press. Their aim is to support poetry, hybrid genres, translation, and collaboration, with a special interest in work that crosses...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetrySubgenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Translation -
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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Arteidolia Press is looking for authors who push the gamut of possibilities, for writing that is diverse and inventive, adventuresome and experimental.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental -
The mission of the Ashland Poetry Press is to help top-rate poets in mid-career break through to first or second book publication, and to help mature poets define the best...
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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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Historical, Speculative Fiction
