We are open to many literary themes and poetic forms & styles. Never really pigeonholed ourselves to one market. We enjoy the succinct, the startling, and the sublime. Some...
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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: Aug 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Serialized Fiction -
Three Rooms Press is a fierce New York-based independent publisher inspired by dada, punk, and passion. Founded in 1993, it serves as a leading independent publisher of cut-the...
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The Toad Press International Chapbook Series publishes contemporary, exciting, beautiful, odd, and avant-garde chapbook-length translations of poetry and prose...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 15 to Dec 31Genre: TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Torrey House Press is an independent nonprofit publisher promoting environmental conservation through literature. We strive to identify exceptional writers, nurture their work...
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Tupelo Press, which released its first five books in fall 2001, is an independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry, literary fiction and...
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We seek to publish gifted writers whose works are under-represented by corporate marketing. We are partial to the writer who possesses a gift for compassionate, sharp-eyed...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction -
Ugly Duckling Presse is a mission-driven small press that publishes poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. UDP favors emerging,...
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Unbound Edition Press champions honest, original voices. Committed to the power of the literary arts to explore and illuminate the contemporary human condition, it publishes...
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The University of Wisconsin Press is a not-for-profit publisher of books and journals. Our mission embodies the Wisconsin Idea by publishing work of distinction that serves the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Regional, Short Fiction, Translation -
Treating each book as a work of art, Unleash Press publishes a limited number of single-author manuscripts each year. The editors are currently looking for manuscripts that...
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V Press is a small press committed to the discovery of writing that transcends the ordinary. The editors believe in developing and encouraging the creative writing voice in our...
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Taking inspiration from the idea of the veliz, in 2015 Veliz Books began crossing literary borders and championing work that transcends time and trends. Veliz Books is...
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Vine Leaves Press is a small traditional publisher that likes to blur the line between commercial and experimental works. It publishes book-length vignette and poetry...
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Vulgar Marsala Press was founded in 2009 and revamped in 2020. In a nutshell, we seek to facilitate the internal bleeding of poetry and fiction into arthouse cinema, visual art...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Visual Poetry -
Washington Writers’ Publishing House is a nonprofit literary organization that has published nearly eighty volumes of poetry and fiction since 1975. The press sponsors annual...
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Wet Cement Press is a small press based in Berkeley, California, with editors in Reno, Nevada, and Asheville, North Carolina. The press typically publishes three to five books...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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Winter Goose Publishing, LLC is a press founded in 2011. It is a royalty-paying trade publisher that has focused on books the editors feel are strong in a unique style, subject...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
We are a press with a clear social mission, fostering an appreciation of the rewards and challenges of pluralism at every level in society, and, most importantly, an interest...
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Wordrunner eChapbooks publishes two mini-collections of fiction in August and December, each by one author, both online and in e-book format, and an annual themed anthology of...
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WTAW Press is an independent, nonprofit literary press devoted to discovering and publishing enduring literary works. We publish a carefully curated list of titles across a...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 30 to Aug 4, Sep 30 to Oct 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
