Factory Hollow Press publishes poetry and prose books, chapbooks and broadsides in both limited and trade editions. FHP is a publishing imprint of Sleepy Lemur Quality...
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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 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
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Fence has a mission to redefine the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by...
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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky.
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Literary. Lyrical. Boundless.
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Foundlings seeks to publish—in paper and ink—the best writing. The press takes its ethic and aesthetic from the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church. Not all of it; just...
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Galileo Press is seeking: vivid imagery and the balance of abstract to concrete imagery, the capacity to surprise, an elastic syntax, pace, and music, thematic cohesiveness and...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices -
Gival Press publishes quality works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have a message, be it philosophical or social by authors from many walks of life. Many of their...
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Graywolf Press is a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of twenty-first century American and international literature. They...
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Green Linden Press publishes the annual Wishing Jewel Prize winner, awarded for a manuscript that challenges expectations of what a book of poems can be; the Essential Voices...
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Hanging Loose Press seeks to make the publishing tent as big as the press can make it, uplifting emerging and underrepresented poets and writers.
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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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Holland Park Press, founded in 2009, is a privately owned independent company publishing literary fiction: novels, novellas, short stories; and poetry. The company is run by...
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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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Lavender Ink publishes full-length (i.e. over a hundred pages) poetry, fiction, nonfiction, cultural/literary criticism, and hybrid genres. Diálogos publishes the same genres...
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Established in 1998 by publisher, editor, and book designer Christine Holbert, Lost Horse Press—a nonprofit independent press based in Liberty Lake, Washington—publishes poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to May 15Genre: Poetry, TranslationSubgenres: Formal Poetry, Micro-poetry, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, War -
Named after the “American haiku” co-invented by Jack Collom and Robert Kelly, and inspired by the sense of poetry as correspondence, The Lune’s first editions were...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Translation -
Lynx House is an independent nonprofit publisher devoted to extending and enhancing the cultural conversation through the publication of fine poetry and fiction. If it has a...
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MadHat Press is a leading publisher of unique and vital contemporary poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and criticism. It seeks to foster the work of writers and poets: explosive,...
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Good writing in any genre. Manic D publishes a diverse spectrum of titles by a wide range of writers.
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El Martillo Press publishes writers whose pens strike the page with clear intent; words with purpose to pry apart assumed norms and to hammer away at injustice. El Martillo...
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An independent house since 1974, McPherson & Company publishes contemporary English and American fiction, 20th century international fiction in translation, nonfiction in...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Nov 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Experimental, Historical, Literary Fiction, Translation -
Miami University Press publishes poetry and poetry in translation, novellas and short fiction, and books about Miami University nonfiction.
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Independent poetry press publishing primarily under the imprints Body Language (LGBT and sexuality) and Fabula Rasa (myth and fairy tale). They also publish the Sapphic...
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New American Press is an independent literary publisher committed to bringing readers the best in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations from across the...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 15 to Jan 15, Feb 15 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation