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, 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, feminist and environmentally...
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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 We do not publish collected works of poetry or...
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My tastes lean toward (but are not limited to) the genre-bending, the fabulists, as well as literary comedies.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionGenres: Experimental, Humor, Literary Fiction -
8th & Atlas Publishing is an international small press that is actively extending the cultural and creative spirit of the literary world. The family-run publishing house...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
42 Miles Press publishes books and chapbooks of poetry, including the winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize. We’re in Indiana. We like images, we like language. We like it...
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55 Fathoms is a place for authors who are too imaginative for literary and too literary for genre. The editors don’t want just a story, they want an exploration into ideas.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Nov 30Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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.
Reading Period: May 1 to Jul 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Under our Bolden imprint, we publish fiction, nonfiction, and memoirs by Black American authors. Under our Midway imprint, we publish nonfiction with a particular focus on...
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Airlie Press is a nonprofit publishing collective dedicated to cultivating and sustaining fine contemporary poetry. It produces books by Pacific Northwest poets; their mission...
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Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing literary fiction, crime fiction, music/pop culture books, and political nonfiction by authors who...
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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. There is no reading fee.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Alan Squire Publishing is an independent literary press founded in 2010 to publish books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that are beautifully written and beautifully made,...
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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 NonfictionGenres: 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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Ananke Press is a small, independent press in New York City with a focus on smart speculative fiction. We welcome odd and unexpected stories,...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: FictionGenres: Cross-genre, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
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 frame...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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: PoetryGenres: BIPOC Voices -
Apollo Publishers publishes narrative and illustrated nonfiction books on topics we deem timely and topical. Books must be at least 50,000 words in length and must have broad,...
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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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