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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: Jun 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We are first and foremost a Christian publisher. However, we do not necessarily limit our submissions to non-fiction theologically-centered works. We are looking for anything...
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***note that submissions are closed until after the holidays***
Stuff your mother hates
Stuff that people don't want their kids to know
Stuff that makes...
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Encircle Publications is home to the esteemed New England poetry journal, the Aurorean, and its alter-ego poetry broadsheet the Unrorean. Since 2011, Encircle Publications has...
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We are a small press based out of Seattle, Washington. We publish collaborations between West Coast poets and artists of all types. We also have an interest in publishing...
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Essay Press is now reading for its first open-book contest, to be judged by Essay author Kristin Prevallet. We particularly welcome book-length manuscripts that extend or...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Apr 1Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction -
- Local Histories: preserves and expands cultural memory in its diversity, especially valuing neglected and alternative histories.
- Health...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Healing/Health, Nature/Environmental, Prose Poetry -
Etched Press is a micro press based out of San Diego, CA. Our aim is to publish writing that is digested and enjoyed. We actively seek chapbook-length collections of poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Flash Fiction, Formal, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Etchings Press is UIndy's teaching press and publishing laboratory. Our students engage with writers from across the country. For the Whirling Prize each fall, writers submit...
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Housed at Wilkes University and partnering with Youngstown State University, Etruscan is a non-profit literary press working to produce and promote books that nurture the...
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Evening Street Press is centered on Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Seneca Falls, 1848 revision of the Declaration of Independence: "that all men -- and women -- are created equal,"...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Political, Prose Poetry -
Exterminating Angel Press is a publishing project that brings together books of diverse subject matter joined by a unity of theme, intention, layout, and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre -
poetry and prose
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
We are especially interested in Sci-Fi and fantasy, but will consider most genres. We recommend looking at our website to get an idea of the range that we publish.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, LGBTQ, Young Adult -
Fat Dog Books is an independent online publisher founded on the premise that if our experience with reading a manuscript is satisfying and engages our intellect and imagination...
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A small, independent, not-for-profit press, FC2's mission is to publish books of high quality and exceptional ambition whose style, subject matter, or form...
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Featherproof Books is an indie publisher based in Chicago, dedicated to the small-press ideals of finding fresh, idiosyncratic voices. We publish perfect-bound, full-length...
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The mission of the Feminist Press at CUNY is to publish and promote the most potent voices of women from all eras and all regions of the globe.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Fence has a mission to redefine the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by...
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We review and edit fiction and narrative nonfiction, and the work we publish is almost exclusively available directly through our website, thus rendering us a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Experimental, Prose Poetry, Literary Fiction -
Fig Tree Books (FTB) publishes and promotes high quality, commercially viable works that chronicle and enlighten the unique American Jewish experience (AJE). We are passionate...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Commercial Fiction -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky, USA. FLP IS A PROUD MEMBER OF APSS/SPAN, and IBPA
Reading Period: Nov 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Firewheel Editions publishes Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, books, chapbooks, and occasional anthologies. We will be launching an international prose poetry book...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
We like poetry that sings but that is grounded in meaning. Ideas AND things. All in one humble bundle of a poem. Not that contemporary poetry of dissonance, "the skittery poem...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31