Hanging Loose Press seeks to make the publishing tent as big as the press can make it, uplifting emerging and underrepresented poets and writers.
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: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Harvard Square Editions is looking for literary fiction of social and environmental value. Its mission is transcend national boundaries, publishing manuscripts that are...
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Founded in 2013, Headmistress Press specializes in poetry and art by lesbians, and their mission is to increase lesbian visibility in the arts. For many years, they held the...
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Heyday is an independent, nonprofit publisher with a focus on California and the American West. They publish nonfiction books that explore history, celebrate Native cultural...
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Hobblebush Books is an independent press dedicated to publishing books of the highest quality that present a unique voice.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Narrative Nonfiction, Regional -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
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Hot Redhead Media is a small press that represents experimental and traditional literary work in multiple genres.
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Howling Bird Press publishes the best in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. They run an annual nationwide contest in alternating genres. They are the imprint of Augsburg...
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Founded in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1995, Hub City Press is the South’s premier independent literary press. Focused on finding and spotlighting extraordinary new and...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 30, Sep 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Regional -
Ice Cube Press explores the pulse and voice of the Heartland through the use of the literary arts. How can people best live in the Midwest, from fiction and fact, to journalism...
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Ig Publishing is a New York-based award-winning independent press dedicated to publishing original literary fiction from writers who have been overlooked by the mainstream...
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Illuminated Press is a micro publisher that amplifies a wide range of voices through publishing. Writers of any age and experience whose work explores social, political, and/or...
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In Case Of Emergency Press publishes a small number of literary works every year: poetry, short stories, scripts, and longer fiction. If you have a manuscript ready, they’d be...
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The Inlandia Institute is a regionally-focused literary nonprofit and publishing house. They offer an annual poetry book competition, the Hillary Gravendyk Prize, that is open...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Apr 30, Nov 1 to Jan 30, Aug 1 to Aug 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
is a rose press publishes poetry, poetics, experimental writing, hybrid, cross-genre, and other work. They are a cooperative editorial board of writers in the virtual world. ...
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Jacar Press is a Community Active press publishing fine poetry from Pulitzer Prize winners to poets not yet known. Proceeds from all their publications will go to support...
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JackLeg employs an environmentally sustainable publishing model and a rigorous editorial process to bring the best new and familiar voices into the literary world. At JackLeg,...
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Jaded Ibis is feminist press committed to publishing socially engaged literature with an emphasis on the voices of people of color, people with disabilities, and other...
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Journal of Experimental Fiction (JEF) Books publishes the foremost in innovative fiction.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 1Genre: FictionSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction -
JLRB Press is a small-run imprint that specializes in poetry, with a strong emphasis on queer and neurodivergent voices and emerging writers.
Reading Period: Aug 1 to Oct 1Genre: Poetry, Translation -
June Road Press aims to publish books that lead readers to new places of connection, understanding, and discovery—books that guide and enrich, that transport and inspire, that...
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k+p press was founded in 2020 by Beth Kantrowitz and Roberta Paul, childhood friends and longtime artistic collaborators, who were inspired to launch a new creative venture...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Jan 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction -
KERNPUNKT Press is an independent publisher of literary works.
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We enjoy symbolism, non-traditional plots, and experimentation.
We like challenging...Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction -
L+S Press is the book-publishing arm of Lines + Stars. Through L+S Press, the editors host the annual Mid-Atlantic Chapbook series, which publishes a poet’s first...
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Lanternfish Press, founded in Philadelphia in 2013, publishes literature of the rare and strange: fiction that crosses the boundary between literary and speculative; real or...
Read moreReading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
