Foundlings seeks to publish—in paper and ink—the best writing. The press takes its ethic and aesthetic from the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church. Not all of it; just...
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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 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Four Way Books is dedicated to producing and promoting excellent literary publications and to creating opportunities for writers of merit. They seek to please and expand poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30, Jan 1 to Mar 31, Nov 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Fruit Bat Press is a handmade, limited edition chapbook press that is based in Chicago and Los Angeles. Fruit bats inspire them because they are dark and sweet at the same time...
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Since 2007, FutureCycle Press has published an eclectic mix of magazines, anthologies, and poetry books by some of the best contemporary English-language poets and writers,...
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Futurepoem is a New York City-based publishing collaborative dedicated to presenting innovative works of contemporary poetry and prose by both emerging and important...
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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 -
Gasher Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher founded in 2018. It is interested in fresh voices and innovative forms.
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Get Fresh Books is a cooperative press, where their authors, editors, and the publisher create and pursue a vision for the writer’s work.
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Ghostbird Press exists to bring literature and visual art together through chapbooks.
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Please note that Gival Press, established in 1998, has discontinued accepting queries for book publication. The Gival Press Poetry Award & the Gival Press Novel Award have...
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Gnashing Teeth Publishing is committed to including underrepresented voices. They look for unique work with different perspectives, poems which make them hold their breath,...
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Gold Line Press, founded in 2010, aims to promote the work of emerging poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction writers, and to elevate the chapbook form. The ...
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Gold Wake Press is an independent literary house founded in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts, in 2008 by Jared Michael Wahlgren, who ran the press until 2014. Kyle McCord...
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Golden Antelope Press is a small press operated in conjunction with, or spun off from, its sister presses, the more scholarly Blazing Sapphire and Naciketas Presses. The focus...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jul 13Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, Historical, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
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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Green Linden Press publishes the annual Wishing Jewel Prize winner, awarded for a manuscript that challenges expectations of what a book of poems can be; the Essential Voices...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Nov 30, Dec 1 to Mar 21Genre: Poetry, Translation -
Green Writers Press is a predominantly an environmentally focused publisher of novels, poetry, memoir, essays, and some science writing. Their list is nature-based and...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Jun 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Nature/Environmental -
Grid Books is a publisher of poetry, fiction, and fine art editions foregrounding creative work that springs from the margins and promoting work that reflects a diversity of...
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Gunpowder Press is an independent literary 501(c)(3) organization based in Santa Barbara, California. Founded in 2013, Gunpowder values community and craft. The press publishes...
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Halbaffe Press is a small independent publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Specializing in poetry, the press also accepts fiction and nonfiction.
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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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Hanging Loose Press seeks to make the publishing tent as big as the press can make it, uplifting emerging and underrepresented poets and writers.
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Harvard Square Editions is looking for nonfiction and fiction of social and environmental value. Its mission is to transcend national boundaries, publishing manuscripts that...
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Founded in 2013, Headmistress Press specializes in poetry and art by lesbians, and their mission is to increase lesbian visibility in the arts. For many years, they held the...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry
