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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: Jun 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: FictionSubgenres: LGBTQ Voices, Magical Realism, Young Adult -
Deep Vellum Publishing was founded in 2013 with the mission to bring the world into conversation through publishing literature from around the world, while organizing literary...
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Digging Press is an independent publisher with a strong commitment to fostering experimentation and cultural inclusion in the realms of literature and visual arts. The editors...
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Divertir Publishing is an independent publisher located in Salem, New Hampshire. Their goal is to provide interesting and entertaining books to the world, as well as to offer...
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Looking for fresh, diverse, original voices for both nonfiction and fiction books. We specialize in the following genres. Nonfiction: pop culture, true crime, and sports....
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Forest Avenue Press publishes literary fiction on a joyride and the occasional memoir. They especially love working with BIPOC, queer, neurodivergent, and disabled authors. ...
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Galileo Press is seeking: vivid imagery and the balance of abstract to concrete imagery, the capacity to surprise, an elastic syntax, pace, and music, thematic cohesiveness and...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices -
Game Over Books is a small publisher run collaboratively by a group of nerdy artists. Their goal is to amplify diverse voices in writing and bring high-quality publications to...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
Ghostbird Press exists to bring literature and visual art together through chapbooks.
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Graywolf Press is a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of twenty-first century American and international literature. They...
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Established in 2015, Half Mystic Press is an international, independent, and interdisciplinary publishing house dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms.
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Harvard Square Editions is looking for literary fiction and nonfiction of social and environmental value. Its mission is transcend national boundaries, publishing manuscripts...
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Illuminated Press is a micro publisher that amplifies a wide range of voices through publishing. Writers of any age and experience whose work explores social, political, and/or...
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Jacar Press is a Community Active press publishing fine poetry from Pulitzer Prize winners to poets not yet known. Proceeds from all their publications will go to support...
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Jaded Ibis is feminist press committed to publishing socially engaged literature with an emphasis on the voices of people of color, people with disabilities, and other...
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JLRB Press is a small-run imprint that specializes in poetry, with a strong emphasis on queer, transgender, women’s, neurodivergent, and emerging voices.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry -
Lanternfish Press, founded in Philadelphia in 2013, publishes literature of the rare and strange: fiction that crosses the boundary between literary and speculative; real or...
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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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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 -
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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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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Independent poetry press publishing primarily under the imprints Body Language (LGBT and sexuality) and Fabula Rasa (myth and fairy tale). They also publish the Sapphic...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Translation -
NDSU Press publishes regional scholarship and literary contributions. Their region includes the Red River Valley, the state of North Dakota, the Great Plains of the United...
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Open Books Press is dedicated to publishing quality books. When they’re open for submissions, they accept adult nonfiction, and fiction for all ages (including some YA and...
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Provocative reading. Literary, engaged, independent, forward-leaning. Exceptional fiction. Unexpected essays. Voices to be reckoned with. Their fiction belongs to a broad range...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
