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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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: Sep 3 to Dec 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Argos Books is an independent literary press. Their aim is to support poetry, hybrid genres, translation, and collaboration, with a special interest in work that crosses...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: PoetrySubgenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Translation -
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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Arteidolia Press is looking for authors who push the gamut of possibilities, for writing that is diverse and inventive, adventuresome and experimental.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Experimental -
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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The mission of the Ashland Poetry Press is to help top-rate poets in mid-career break through to first or second book publication, and to help mature poets define the best...
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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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Aubade Publishing publishes speculative fiction, historical fiction, and gothic literature as well as poetry collections. They also publish sports memiors. Please do not submit...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsSubgenres: Historical, Speculative Fiction -
Augury Books is an independent press based in Brooklyn. Committed to publishing innovative work from emerging and established writers, Augury Books seeks to reaffirm the...
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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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Feb 28, Mar 1 to Apr 30, May 1 to Jun 30, Aug 15 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to May 15Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
The goal of Backbone Press is to publish and support writers of color. Backbone Press has been publishing diversely since 2012. They debut and support writers who are...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 28 to Dec 28, Feb 1 to Mar 30Genre: Poetry -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
Bateau Press publishes the winner of the annual Boom Chapbook Contest. Their chapbooks are of the highest quality, well-designed, letterpress covers, hand stitched, and detail-...
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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.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Pop Culture -
Founded in 2007, Beatdom Books is the publisher of Beatdom, a literary journal that explores the Beat Generation and related countercultural movements. They also...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Historical, Narrative Nonfiction -
Bella Books publishes lesbian/sapphic fiction of all genres, and is known for award-winning and best-selling f/f romance, mystery, fantasy, paranormal and general fiction.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: FictionSubgenres: LGBTQ Voices -
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...
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Bellevue Literary Press is devoted to publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences because they believe that science and the...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction -
Belt Publishing focuses on quality nonfiction by and for the Midwest, and consists of the City Anthology Series, Notches, and Neighborhood Guidebooks.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
BLP is currently accepting engaging stories in search of a great home. Main themes explore the liminal world where anything can happen. Liminal is anything “in-between” or “...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 1 to Dec 31, Feb 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jun 30, Aug 1 to Sep 30Genre: FictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult -
betweenthehighway is a press publishes on receipt paper. Inspired by accounting books from the Japanese Edo period, each book features the work of one writer. Please see the...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
