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 -
We prefer 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 negotiates...
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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 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
3: A Taos Press is a multicultural and ethically voiced independent press. Our poetry books always have a theme in each of them. We do not publish collected works of poetry or...
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42 Miles Press publishes full-length books of poetry, including the winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize. We’re in Indiana. We like images, we like the music of language....
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Able Muse Press publishes emerging and established poets and writers, and anthologies of poetry, fiction, and art. We 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.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 15, Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 7 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
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 is an independent press dedicated to publishing and promoting incredible literature that challenges readers and has an innate sense of self, timelessness,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Alternative Field Notes (and imprint of Alternative Field) welcomes dialogue, discourse, and co-operative thinking in ways that may instigate curiosity, criticism, action,...
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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 twenty-fifth year of publishing, Anvil has firmly established itself as a publisher of progressive,...
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“You might describe us as a heavy metal acid trip via literature. We believe books are hallucinogens suffused with emotion, feeling, and sensation. Our books wobble in the...
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Apogee Press publishes the work of innovative and experimental poets. Culturally and formally diverse, our poets share an original use of language.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental -
April Gloaming Publishing is a Nashville-based independent press that aims to capture and better understand the Southern soul, Southern writing, and the Southern holler.
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Aquarius Press aims to develop, publish and promote talented writers typically underrepresented in the literary marketplace. The Willow Books division specializes in the works...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 15 to Jan 15, Jun 1 to Aug 30Genre: 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 non-profit literary publisher based at the University of Houston. It is mission driven, publishing US Hispanic literature, both contemporary and...
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Arteidolia Press is looking for authors who push the gamut of possibilities, for writing that leans away from the ordinary and more towards uncharted territories. Work should...
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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, non-fiction, motivational, and educational literature that is...
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Aubade Publishing publishes speculative fiction, historical fiction, and gothic literature as well as poetry collections. We also publish sports memiors. Please do not submit...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Historical, Speculative Fiction -
Augury Books is an independent press based in Brooklyn. Committed to publishing innovative work from emerging and established writers, Augury Books seeks to reaffirm the...
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Autumn House Press is a nationally renowned nonprofit publisher based in Pittsburgh, PA, whose mission is to publish and promote poetry and other fine literature....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28, Mar 1 to Apr 30, May 1 to Jun 30, Sep 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Awst Press publishes a wide range of work across perspectives, genres, and subjects. In addition to full-length books, we also host an annual essay series and our Pocketbooks...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to May 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Our goal is to publish and support writers of color.
Backbone Press has been publishing diversely since 2012. We debut and support writers who are considered...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 28 to Dec 28, Feb 1 to Mar 30Genre: Poetry -
Baobab Press seeks books that communicate and support their themes through new and well-articulated means. We like risk. We like invention. More importantly, we look for a...
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BatCat Press publishes limited handbound editions of awesome poetry and prose. We aim to publish books, chapbooks, and broadsides that are the perfect combination of excellent...
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Bateau Press publishes the winner of the annual Boom Chapbook Contest. Our chapbooks are of the highest quality, well-designed, letterpress covers, hand stitched, and detail-...
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Bauhan Publishing is an independent Publisher in Peterborough, New Hampshire. They focus on New England regional books in the areas of history, art, nature studies, and poetry...
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The mission at Belle Point Press is to celebrate the literary culture and community of the American Mid-South: all its paradoxes and contradictions, all the ways it gets people...
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betweenthehighway is a press dedicated to publishing chapbooks in the form of store receipts. Inspired by accounting books from the Japanese Edo period, each chapbook features...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental, Religious/Spiritual -
If we love your manuscript and offer you a contract, we will provide editing, advice and direction (if you need it), the services of our art department to create your book...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Books by The Bitter Oleander Press represent some of the best of contemporary poetry published in English and in translation. Although their concentration is primarily on...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Prose Poetry, Translation -
Since 1971, BkMk Press (pronounced “bookmark”) has been committed to finding and publishing outstanding Writers. BkMk Press publishes primarily poetry and short fiction...
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Black Lawrence Press is an independent publisher of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We also publish the occasional translation from German. We hold open...
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Black Sun Lit is a print and digital literary press that endeavors to introduce, promote, and support both emerging and experienced writers whose work has little representation...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Blair is a small, independent press interested in publishing voices from beyond the mainstream. We publish prose and poetry by underrepresented writers such as women, people of...
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BlazeVOX [books] presents innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Our books push at the frontiers of what is possible with our innovative poetry,...
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BLF Press is an independent Black feminist press dedicated to amplifying the work of Black women and women of color.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction -
Bloomsday Literary publishes bold, beautifully crafted books by historically excluded writers, whose stories transform us and inspire us to act.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 30, Oct 1 to Dec 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction -
Though not our only interest, we have a strong like for poetry of place and the relationship between lives and landscapes. Most importantly, we seek an economy of language with...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Jul 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
Blue Light Press publishes poetry that is imagistic, inventive, emotionally honest, and pushes the language to a deeper level of insight. The editors are all poets, and their...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Feb 28Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Flash Fiction -
BOA Editions publishes within four distinct series: The American Poets Continuum Series (previously published poets); The Lannan Translations Selection Series...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to May 31, Aug 1 to Nov 30Subgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
We are a literary small press and have 5 series at Bottom Dog Press: Midwest, Working Lives, Harmony, Memoirs, and Appalachian Writing. We've also done some America Zen books....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction -
Brick Mantel Books publishes innovative works of literary excellence by new and established writers. We value literature as an art, and we publish literary fiction and thought-...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
We want to publish poets who are engaged in the writing community, including participating in poetry readings, workshops, and writers groups. The poets we are looking for are...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry -
Bright Hill Press seeks out the work of contemporary poets for publication. The editors do not consider student work or work by unpublished poets.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Nov 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry
