2Leaf Press is a Black/Brown female-led press whose mission is to publish multigenerational and multicultural poets, authors, artists, activists, and scholars who share stories...
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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 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Historical, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Translation -
2River prefers poems with these qualities: image, subtlety, and point of view; a surface of worldly exactitude, as well as a depth of semantic ambiguity; and a voice that...
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3 Mile Harbor Press is committed to publishing the best diverse work by new and established poets and is particularly interested in finding LGBQT+, BIPOC, feminist and...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
3: A Taos Press is a multicultural and ethically voiced independent press. Their poetry books always have a theme in each of them. They do not publish collected works of poetry...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: Experimental, Humor, Literary Fiction -
8th & Atlas Publishing is an international small press that is actively extending the cultural and creative spirit of the literary world. The family-run publishing house...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31, Sep 1 to Sep 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Regional, Serialized Fiction, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, War, Young Adult -
42 Miles Press publishes full-length books of poetry, including the winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize. They’re in Indiana. They like images, they like the music of...
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55 Fathoms is a place for authors who are too imaginative for literary, and too literary for genre. They don’t want just a story, they want an exploration into ideas and topics...
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Able Muse Press publishes emerging and established poets and writers, and anthologies of poetry, fiction, and art. They also publish periodical print versions of Able Muse...
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Under their Bolden imprint, Agate Publishing publishes fiction, nonfiction, and memoirs by Black American authors. Under their Midway imprint, they publish nonfiction with a...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Regional -
Airlie Press is a nonprofit publisher run by writers, dedicated to cultivating and sustaining fine contemporary poetry and to promoting poets from the Pacific Northwest. They ...
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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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Alabaster Leaves Publishing is for emerging poets. There are no style requirements, manuscripts are accepted year-round.
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AJB is a leading independent press devoted to discovering and publishing exceptional poetry by emerging and established writers. The press is an innovator in the field,...
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Alternating Current Press is an indie press dedicated to publishing and promoting incredible literature that challenges readers and has an innate sense of self, timelessness,...
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Alternative Field Notes (and imprint of Alternative Field) welcomes dialogue, discourse, and cooperative thinking in ways that may instigate curiosity, criticism, action,...
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Ananke Press is a small, independent press in New York City with a focus on smart speculative fiction. They welcome odd and unexpected stories,...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: FictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Anima is a small press founded in 2015. It aims to provide a home for contemporary poems which challenge the materialist paradigm of Western culture, ...
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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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Anvil Press is a Vancouver literary press founded in 1991. Now in its 25th year of publishing, Anvil has firmly established itself as a publisher of progressive, contemporary...
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Apogee Press publishes the work of innovative and experimental poets. Culturally and formally diverse, their poets share an original use of language.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental -
Apollo Publishers publishes narrative and illustrated nonfiction books on topics they deem timely and topical. Books must have broad, trade appeal.
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Apprentice House is the nation’s first entirely student-managed book publisher. Students at Loyola University Maryland are responsible for every aspect of the publishing...
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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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
