JLRB Press is a small-run imprint that specializes in poetry, with a strong emphasis on queer, transgender, women’s, neurodivergent, and emerging voices.
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: Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry -
June Road Press aims to publish books that lead readers to new places of connection, understanding, and discovery—books that guide and enrich, that transport and inspire, that...
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Kelsey Street Press was founded in 1974 to address the marginalization of women writers. From the beginning, the editors linked their editorial policy to a poetics of allowance...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 26 to Dec 26Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, Visual Poetry -
Kernpunkt Press is an independent publisher of experimental literary works.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction -
L+S Press is the book-publishing arm of Lines + Stars. Through L+S Press, the editors host the annual Mid-Atlantic Chapbook series, which publishes a regional poet’s...
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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...
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Lily Poetry Review Books seeks chapbook and full-length poetry collections and have a wide aesthetic with a penchant for concision, strong imagery, inventive language, and...
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The mission of Liquid Light Press is to promote the artistic sharing of the human journey to consciousness and inner experiences difficult to express in linear vocabulary. They...
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Litmus Press cultivates a critical, poetic space in which disparate languages, genres, geographies, and artistic lineages converge, bringing forth singular,...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jul 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental -
The goal of Little Red Tree Publishing is to publish books that are accessible to everyone, combining their desire to educate and their love of quality books with an interest...
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Livingston Press was founded in 1983 by Charles Henley as a means to publish regional authors. Under Joe Musso in 1988, the press expanded, to publish books by regional authors...
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Loblolly Press is a press publishing poetry, short fiction, and novels from new and established writers. Loblolly Press publishes work that embodies a profound sense of place,...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Short Fiction -
Longship Press is a small-press publishing company based in Marin County, California. Its aim is to give voice to writers and canvas to artists. Providing the printed page to...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Mar 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Established in 1978, Loom Press publishes books by emerging writers and artists from the New England area. In addition to poetry, Loom Press titles range from documentary...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Regional -
Los Nietos Press is looking for book-length works of poetry and/or short story. They are looking for work that is about the person, but also about place; work that sheds light...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
Established in 1998 by publisher, editor, and book designer Christine Holbert, Lost Horse Press—a nonprofit independent press based in Scio, Oregon—publishes poetry titles by...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to May 15Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Formal Poetry, Micro-poetry, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, War -
Lost Telegram Press is now accepting query letters to hear about new projects for publication. The editors are happy to read queries about projects that are conceptual in...
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MadHat Press is a leading publisher of unique and vital contemporary poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and criticism. It seeks to foster the work of writers and poets: explosive,...
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The mission of Madville Publishing is to produce, publish, and market literary works of the highest quality that reflect the diversity of the modern English-speaking world....
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Main Street Rag is best known for publishing poetry, but they also publish novels, novellas, short story collections, and essay collections. Guidelines are on their website....
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Resonant writing in most genres. For 40+ years, Manic D has published a diverse spectrum of titles by a wide range of writers.
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Marsh Hawk Press books often highlight the affinity of poetry and the visual arts. Each book is produced with particular care to visual style, often including reproductions of...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Apr 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetrySubgenres: Narrative Nonfiction -
El Martillo Press publishes writers whose pens strike the page with clear intent; words with purpose to pry apart assumed norms and to hammer away at injustice. El Martillo...
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Mayapple Press is a small literary press founded in 1978 by poet and editor Judith Kerman. They focus on literature not often celebrated by either the mainstream or the avant-...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
