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 -
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 -
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...
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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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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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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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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...
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Aquarius Press develops, publishes and promotes talented writers typically underrepresented in the literary marketplace. The Willow Books division specializes in the works of...
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Arte Público Press is a nonprofit literary publisher based at the University of Houston. It is mission driven, publishing U.S. Hispanic literature, both contemporary and...
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Ashland Creek Press is a small, independent publisher of books for a better planet. Their mission is to publish a range of books that foster an appreciation for worlds outside...
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Assure Press connects authors and artists with the world through inspirational and enlightening poetry, nonfiction, motivational, and educational literature that is mostly, but...
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Autumn House Press is a nationally renowned nonprofit publisher based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose mission is to publish and promote poetry and other fine...
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Awst Press publishes a wide range of work across perspectives, genres, and subjects. In addition to full-length books, they have hosted an annual essay series, and their...
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Baobab Press seeks books that communicate and support their themes through new and well-articulated means. They like risk. They like invention. More importantly, they look for...
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BatCat Press publishes limited handbound editions of awesome poetry and prose. They aim to publish books, chapbooks, and broadsides that are the perfect combination of...
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Bauhan Publishing is an independent Publisher in Peterborough, New Hampshire. They focus on New England regional books in the areas of history, art, nature studies, and poetry...
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Beacon Publishing Group is an award-winning, independent publisher of books and audio books headquartered in New York City. Beacon has a broad array of titles in fiction and...
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The editors seek books on actors, films, television series, anything to do with the performing arts.
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Founded in 2007, Beatdom Books is the publisher of Beatdom, a literary journal that explores the Beat Generation and related countercultural movements. They also...
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The mission at Belle Point Press is to celebrate the literary culture and community of the American Mid-South: all its paradoxes and contradictions, all the ways it gets people...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
