Unbound Edition Press is guided by a mission to respect and elevate emerging, underappreciated, and marginalized authors, with a strong commitment to advancing LGBTQ+ and BIPOC...
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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: Mar 31 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. The press publishes the winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the Iowa Poetry Prize, novels, biographies, memoirs,...
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The University of New Orleans Press seeks work that contributes to the rich cultural tradition of New Orleans and the surrounding region, as well as work that contributes to...
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UT Press has a long history of publishing books and series in the areas of regional history, poetry, and the fantastic. They invite proposals for trade and scholarly books...
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The University of Utah Press is an agency of the J. Willard Marriott Library of the University of Utah. In accordance with the mission of the University, the Press publishes...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Historical, Nature/Environmental, Regional -
The University of Wisconsin Press is a not-for-profit publisher of books and journals. Our mission embodies the Wisconsin Idea by publishing work of distinction that serves the...
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Treating each book as a work of art, Unleash Press publishes a limited number of single-author manuscripts each year. The editors are currently looking for works-in-progress...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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Unsolicited Press strives to produce exceptional works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from award-winning authors. Unsolicited Press based out of Portland, Oregon and...
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Vallum Society for Education in Arts & Letters (VSEAL) is a federally incorporated charity based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal, Canada) on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory that...
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Taking inspiration from the idea of the veliz, in 2015 Veliz Books began crossing literary borders and championing work that transcends time and trends. Veliz Books is...
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Quality and creative poetry and fiction.
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Vine Leaves Press likes to blur the line between commercial and experimental works. They publish biography/autobiography, creative nonfiction, reference books, short story...
Read moreReading 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 -
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,...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Wake Forest University Press only publishes Irish poetry from Irish (not Irish-American) poets. The editors regret they cannot consider other poets’ work. If you are an Irish...
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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.
Wave Books is:
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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 -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
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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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Reading Period: Sep 1 to Oct 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Translation
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Founded in 1957, Wesleyan University Press is part of Wesleyan University and publishes approximately 20 books each year in poetry, music and dance. Press poetry titles have...
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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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
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 30Genre: 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
