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Small Presses
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 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Experimental, Humor, Literary Fiction -
Under their Bolden imprint, Agate Publishing publishes literary fiction, memoir, and nonfiction. Under their Midway imprint, they publish nonfiction with a particular focus on...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Regional -
Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing literary fiction, crime fiction, music/pop culture books, and political nonfiction by authors who...
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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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April Gloaming Publishing is a nonprofit Nashville-based independent press that aims to capture and better understand the Southern soul, Southern writing, and the Southern...
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Ashland Creek Press is a small, independent publisher of books for a better planet. Its mission is to publish a range of books that foster an appreciation for worlds outside...
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Assure Press connects authors and artists with the world through inspirational and enlightening poetry, nonfiction, motivational, and educational literature that is mostly, but...
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Aunt Lute Books is an intersectional, feminist press dedicated to publishing literature by those who have been traditionally underrepresented in or excluded by the literary...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Feminist, Graphic/Illustrated, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, War, Young Adult
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Autumn House Press is a nationally renowned nonprofit publisher based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose mission is to publish and promote poetry and other fine...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28, May 1 to Jun 30, Sep 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Bellevue Literary Press is devoted to publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences because they believe that science and the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction -
BLP is currently accepting engaging stories in search of a great home. Main themes explore the liminal world where anything can happen. Liminal is anything “in-between” or “...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult -
Black Beacon Books is an independent publisher founded by author and anthologist, Cameron Trost. It began in Australia in 2013 and is now based in Brittany. We publish...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Feb 28Genre: FictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Black Glove Press is a collective of writers, artists, occultists, surrealists, and weirdos. The editors like books that crack open reality and allow us to peek through. The...
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Black Lawrence Press is an independent publisher of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. They hold open reading periods during the months of June and November...
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Black Scat Books is a small, independent, not-for-profit press. They are are currently reading submissions to their magazine: TYPO: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROTOTYPES...
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BLF Press is an independent Black feminist press dedicated to amplifying the work of Black women and women of color.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction -
Blydyn Square Books publishes books that make you think: smart, interesting, character-driven fiction and unusual/thought-provoking nonfiction. They have a children’s imprint (...
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Boa Editions publishes within four distinct series: the American Poets Continuum Series (previously published poets); the New Poets of America series (first-...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Brick Mantel Books publishes innovative works of literary excellence by new and established writers. We value literature as an art, and they publish literary fiction and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
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 -
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 31Subgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
Divertir Publishing is an independent publisher located in Salem, New Hampshire. Their goal is to provide interesting and entertaining books to the world, as well as to offer...
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Dzanc Books was created in 2006 to advance great writing and champion those writers who don’t fit neatly into the marketing niches of for-profit presses and to advance literary...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Sep 30, Nov 1 to Nov 30Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction
