NDR is published by the Creative Writing Program of the Louisiana State University English Department.
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: Mar 1 to Apr 7Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre
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New Door Books publishes original, innovative, book-length literature, mostly fiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction -
New Issues Poetry & Prose, a nonprofit, university-based publisher, was established in 1996 and publishes eight to twelve new titles each year with a focus on contemporary...
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NMP is a publisher of chapbooks and broadsides. The press has a pretty wide aesthetic range and acquires manuscripts primarily through their yearly chapbook contest ($1,000...
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New Rivers Press is interested in literary work of every character, but especially in diverse work that's aesthetically challenging and has a social conscience. Their Many...
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Nightboat Books publishes work that resists convention and transcends boundaries—books rich with poignancy, intelligence, and risk.
Reading Period: May 15 to Jul 9, Sep 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Cross-genre -
Noemi Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher, striving to introduce voices marginalized by mainstream presses to a broader audience. Noemi provides writers with support and...
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NDSU Press publishes regional scholarship and literary contributions. Their region includes the Red River Valley, the state of North Dakota, the Great Plains of the United...
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Open Books Press is dedicated to publishing quality books. When they’re open for submissions, they accept adult nonfiction, and fiction for all ages (including some YA and...
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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.
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Other Press attracts authors who are guided by a passion to discover the limits of knowledge and imagination.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Historical, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Political -
Provocative reading. Literary, engaged, independent, forward-leaning. Exceptional fiction. Unexpected essays. Voices to be reckoned with. Their fiction belongs to a broad range...
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Paloma Press is a San Francisco Bay Area-based, Filipino American and immigrant women-led, independent literary press. They are founded in the belief that the literary arts can...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Pandamoon Publishing is an independent publishing house in Austin, Texas. It is a royalty-paying, non-subsidy publisher who believes the relationship between the author and the...
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Papeachu Press is a small feminist book publisher for female, nonbinary, and genderqueer creators. They publish both chapbooks and full-length collections of poetry, short...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
Devoted to promoting the work of older writers, Passager Books publishes a select number of books each year by writers who have been published in Passager journal....
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Based in the D.C. area, they’re obviously partial to poets and writers in the Delmarva area. But they have published books by a British poet and other writers scattered along...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 8, Jun 1 to Jun 8Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Pop Culture -
P+B Publications is an independent publisher, seeking the best new work by women and nonbinary authors. In the spirit of Pen + Brush, they believe fervently that their...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction -
Persea Books is an independent, literary publishing house founded in 1975 by Michael Braziller and Karen Braziller, who still own and direct the company. Over the past decades...
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Pink Trees Press continues to grow publishing individual poetry and memoir collections born out of the New York City downtown arts scene. Presently, they are publishing writers...
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Plan B Press encourages, captures, presents, and preserves contemporary poetry by publishing and presenting emerging poets. They are a small independent publishing company that...
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Poetry and microfiction with a strong narrative. They like the lyrical, embrace the formal as well as spoken word. Clarity is essential. They love pop culture. They also...
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Founded in 1971, the press specializes in lesser-known 1960s, 1970s New York poets, neoromantic and gothic poetry, annotated reprints of lost poets, new translations of classic...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: LGBTQ Voices, Regional, Translation -
Short fiction and poetry only. Our editors operate like professional baseball scouts: they search out writers they would like to work with. Please visit our website and look...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
Publishing Genius aims to make the best books by devoted members of the global literary community, and to make them in the most interesting and progressive ways. That’s because...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry