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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  • Omnidawn’s mission is to publish work that explores what it would mean to step beyond the social and personal, the external and internal, boundaries that narrow our lives. We...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31
    Genre: Poetry
  • Open Country Press was established in 2016 by Natalie Peeterse, who runs the press along with Autumn Toennis. The press’ mission is to publish high quality and dynamic literary...

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    Reading Period: Jun 1 to Oct 1
    Genre: Poetry
  • The mission of the Origami Poems Project™ is the encouragement of literature and the arts by bringing free poetry to everyone through the printing and distribution of free...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31
    Genre: Poetry
  • Orison Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary press focused on the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives.

    Reading Period: Oct 1 to Oct 31
  • An independent publisher of poetry that runs counter to the mainstream, Ornithopter Press has published individual collections by contemporary authors since 2014. The press...

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    Reading Period: Sep 22 to Nov 12
    Genre: Poetry