akinoga press is a Baltimore-based micro-press that specialzes in hand-bound chapbooks of a spacious/minimalist/austere flavor, though on the lookout for anything small, quiet...
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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: Nov 7 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Alternative Field Notes (and imprint of Alternative Field) welcomes dialogue, discourse, and co-operative thinking in ways that may instigate curiosity, criticism, action,...
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Another New Calligraphy has enjoyed the quiet thrill of making and sharing since 2009. ANC guides writers and musicians in the realization of their work via the production of...
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The press is flexible with a broad taste. Though most of their books in print are poetry collections, Crisis Chronicles Press remains open to publishing anything the editor...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Sep 30Genre: Poetry
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Ghostbird Press exists to bring literature and visual art together through chapbooks.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Established in 1998 by publisher, editor, and book designer, Christine Holbert, Lost Horse Press—a nonprofit independent press based in Liberty Lake, Washington—publishes...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to May 15Genre: PoetryGenres: Formal Poetry, Micro-poetry, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, War -
NMP is a publisher of chapbooks and broadsides. We have a pretty wide aesthetic range, and we acquire manuscripts primarily through our yearly chapbook contest ($1,000 prize,...
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New Rivers Press is interested in literary work of every character, but especially in diverse work that's aesthetically challenging and has a social conscience. Our Many Voices...
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The mission of the Origami Poems Project™ is the encouragement of literature & the arts by bringing free poetry to everyone through the printing and distribution of free...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Jun 30Genre: PoetryGenres: Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Founded by in 2016, PALOMA PRESS is a San Francisco Bay Area-based, Filipino American women-led, independent literary press publishing poetry, prose, and...
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We like the experimental as well as the accessible; we love prose poems and erasures, but also sonnets and sestinas. Many people associate chapbooks with only poetry, but we're...
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Poetry and microfiction with a strong narrative. We like the lyrical, embrace the formal as well as spoken word. Clarity is essential. We love pop culture.
Reading Period: Nov 17 to Jan 6, May 21 to Sep 5Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Believing in literature’s practical ability to create sympathy and therefore a better world, Publishing Genius exists to make the best books by devoted members of the global...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 15 to Jun 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry -
rinky dink press (rdp) is on a mission to get poetry back in the hands (and pockets) of the people. To date, we’ve published over 100 single-author micro-collections in...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jul 31Genre: PoetryGenres: Micro-poetry -
The Gatewood Prize is Switchback Books' annual competition for a first or second full-length (48-80 pp.) collection of poems by a woman or non-binary person writing in the...
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Founded in 2021 by husband and wife team Grace and Tyler Wittkofsky, Tea With Coffee Media is a team of indie authors, designers, and editors who have a goal of helping indie...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Religious/Spiritual, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult -
The Toad Press International Chapbook Series publishes contemporary, exciting, beautiful, odd, and avant-garde chapbook-length translations of poetry and prose...
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Ugly Duckling Presse is a mission-driven small press that publishes poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. UDP favors emerging,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
