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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: Apr 15 to May 30Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Young Adult -
Bywater Books, Inc. represents the coming of age of queer literature.
The Bywater Books mission is to publish well-written commercial...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: LGBTQ Voices -
C&R Press publishes bold, well-crafted literary works that defy mainstream trends, showcasing depth and emotion. The editors embrace diverse voices, genres, and...
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CavanKerry Press seeks materials from the broadest range of writers, including people of color and people with disabilities. We are partial to writers whose distinct voices are...
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Central Avenue Publishing is a home for fiction and poetry about people at their worst—and best.
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Cervena Barva Press was founded in April of 2005. The press solicits poetry, fiction, and translations from various writers around the world. The editors publish writers who...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 2 to Feb 10Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Translation -
Cherry Castle Publishing is one of America’s newest and most energetic black-owned publishers of great literature. It is a press that honors the vibrant multicultural voice of...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 5 to Mar 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Graphic/Illustrated -
Chin Music Press is a curiously bibliophilic indie publisher located deep in the recesses of Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market. For 18 years, the focus has been on creating...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Mar 31, Sep 11 to Oct 25Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The press looks for works that narrate stories in well written prose and poetic forms, demonstrating human experience in all kinds of circumstances. The editors find delight in...
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The focus of the Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library is mostly poetry. The press has a specialized series of poetry/art books with art created by the author, or a...
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Circling Rivers is an independent publisher of literary nonfiction and poetry. They’re drawn to the writer, known or unknown, whose work offers insight and depth, beauty, and ...
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Clare Songbirds Publishing House was established to provide a print forum for the creation of limited edition, fine art from poets and writers, both established and emerging....
Reading Period: Jan 15 to Feb 28, May 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry -
The CSU Poetry Center is committed to acquiring stylistically distinctive and skillfully crafted collections of poetry, prose, and translation from an aesthetically diverse...
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Codhill Press is devoted exclusively to the advancement and appreciation of the finest works in poetry and prose which promise to search out important meanings for life.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Coffee House Press creates new spaces for audiences and artists to interact, inspiring readers and enriching communities by expanding the definition of what literature is, what...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31, Oct 1 to Oct 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Translation -
Concrete Wolf has been publishing poetry chapbooks since 2001 and Louis Award full-length collections. The editors have no preference as to formal or free...
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Cooper Dillon is a small poetry press committed to upholding the virtues of poetry as a high art and expression of truth, beauty, and sincerity: the values...
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Whether in the form of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, the works they like to publish engage the senses, fire up the neurons, possess a social consciousness, and help make...
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Creative James Media leans toward out-of-the-ordinary, genre-bending, unique stories. They don’t shy away from heavy topics.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: FictionSubgenres: LGBTQ Voices, Magical Realism, Young Adult -
Creators Publishing launched in 2006, and since then it has published more than 180 collection books and original manuscripts under three imprints. Its mission is to find...
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Cricket Cottage Publishing, LLC, is committed to selling high quality stories that are entertaining, exciting, educational, and just plain good, and to sharing useful...
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The press is flexible with a broad taste, though most of their books in print are poetry collections.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Cuidono Press publishes fiction, historical fiction, and history. They look for narratives that take history and culture seriously, whether in service to a great story or in...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Aug 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Historical, Literary Fiction -
DarkWinter Press and Baxter Editions are looking for novellas, novel-length manuscripts, short story collections, and poetry collections with a twist. They do not publish...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31, Jul 1 to Jul 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
