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Small Presses
Whether you're pursuing the publication of your first book or your fifth, use our Small Presses database to research publisher interests, contact information, and submission guidelines.
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Chicory Blue Press is a small, feminist, literary press, now focusing on the strong voices of women over seventy. Founded in 1987, Chicory Blue Press has...
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ChiZine Publications (CZP) is an independent publisher of weird, surreal, subtle, and disturbing dark literary fiction hand-picked by Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi...
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Circling Rivers is an independent publisher of literary nonfiction and poetry. We’re drawn to the writer, known or unknown, whose work offers insight and depth, beauty, and the...
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Civil Coping Mechanisms (CCM) is a DIY kind of press. We take the same level of angst as our brethren in shunning those that would be in the immediate...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Nov 10Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
The CSU Poetry Center is committed to acquiring stylistically distinctive and skillfully crafted collections of poetry and prose from an aesthetically diverse range of authors...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
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We fulfill our mission by publishing books that advance the craft of writing; books that present the dreams and ambitions of peoples who have been under-represented in...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Translation -
A small press based in New Zealand. Along with work by New Zealand poets, Cold Hub Press publishes contemporary international poetry, including bilingual editions with...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Prose Poetry, Translation -
Colonus Publishing Inc. is a literary small press in Spokane, Washington. We publish creative nonfiction, poetry, and literary fiction regardless of genre....
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction -
We are an imprint of Curbside Splendor, dedicated to publishing elegant, romantic poetry and prose in Spanish and English. Besides books, we will publish pieces of short prose...
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Concrete Wolf has been publishing chapbooks since 2001. We have no preference as to formal or free verse. We probably slightly favor lyric and narrative...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry -
Conundrum publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction — both essay and long-form works — primarily from authors who live in the Rocky Mountain region. As we branch out...
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Convulsive Editions is a micro-press that publishes affordable, well-designed chapbooks, broadsides, french folds, and other printed matter featuring lyrical writing that...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Counterpath Press is an independent, nonprofit, literary publisher that supports communities of readers and artists who are interested in linguistic and visual interventions in...
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Creators Publishing launched in 2006, and since then we have published over 170 collection books and original manuscripts under three imprints. Our mission is to find unique...
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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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We're flexible and have broad taste. Though most of our books in print are poetry chapbooks, we remain open to publishing anything the editor loves.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Curbside Splendor was conceived as a punk rock band in the early 1990s in an apartment in Urbana, Illinois. The band never really went anywhere, but Curbside was re-founded as...
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We are are both young poets and young publishers. We began in April of 2016 with the intent of creating a vehicle by which other relativly unknown poets could achieve more...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Jul 31Genre: Poetry -
Cyberwit seeks to publish the best in poetry from novices to established poets. Our published anthologies and journal, Taj Mahal Review, have poems that are sensuous,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Dalkey Archive Press is a nonprofit organization whose mission is the preservation of literary works of art through publication. We primarily publish literary...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction -
Damaged Goods Press publishes only queer & trans identified writers. Poetry & flash fiction collections should be 20-40 pages. We publish open ended runs.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBT, Micro-poetry, Literary Fiction