3 Mile Harbor Press is committed to publishing the best diverse work by new and established poets and is particularly interested in finding LGBQT+, BIPOC, feminist and...
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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: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
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 -
Alternative Field Notes (and imprint of Alternative Field) welcomes dialogue, discourse, and cooperative thinking in ways that may instigate curiosity, criticism, action,...
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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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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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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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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 -
Established in 2012, Biting Duck Press is an indie press with the goal of providing high-quality, low-cost, highly accessible electronic and print books for...
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Black Lawrence Press is an independent publisher of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. They also publish the occasional translation from German. They hold...
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Black Sun Lit is a print and digital literary press that endeavors to introduce, promote, and support both emerging and experienced writers whose work has little representation...
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BLF Press is an independent Black feminist press dedicated to amplifying the work of Black women and women of color.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction -
Brooklyn Arts Press (BAP) is a literary press devoted to publishing chapbooks and full-length collections of poetry, novels, lyrical short fiction, and art monographs by...
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The mission of Brown Paper Press is to engage readers on topics of contemporary culture through quality writing and thoughtful design. Their press strives to deliver socially...
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Button Poetry values energy and voice and force, work that crosses borders or effaces them completely, work that enters into larger social conversations, work that lives in the...
Read moreReading Period: Nov 15 to Jan 5Genre: PoetrySubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Young Adult -
CavanKerry Press seeks materials from the broadest range of writers, including people of color and people with disabilities. They are partial to the writer whose distinct voice...
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Chin Music Press is a curiously bibliophilic indie publisher located deep in the recesses of Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market. For 18 years, the focus has been on creating...
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The CSU Poetry Center is committed to acquiring stylistically distinctive and skillfully crafted collections of poetry, prose, and translation from an aesthetically diverse...
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Deep Vellum Publishing was founded in 2013 with the mission to bring the world into conversation through publishing literature from around the world, while organizing literary...
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Devil’s Party Press is an imprint of Current Words Publishing, as are the following imprints: Instant Noodles, an online literary magazine, Hawkshaw, for mystery,...
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Digging Press is an independent publisher with a strong commitment to fostering experimentation and cultural inclusion in the realms of literature and visual arts. The editors...
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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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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky.
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Game Over Books is a small publisher run collaboratively by a group of nerdy artists. Their goal is to amplify diverse voices in writing and bring high-quality publications to...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Oct 5Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
Golden Antelope Press is a small press operated in conjunction with, or spun off from, its sister presses, the more scholarly Blazing Sapphire and Naciketas Presses. The focus...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Oct 1Subgenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, Historical, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture -
Harvard Square Editions is looking for literary fiction and non-fiction of social and environmental value. Its mission is transcend national boundaries, publishing manuscripts...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
