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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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, TranslationGenres: 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 -
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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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...
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Books by the Bitter Oleander Press represent some of the best of contemporary poetry published in English and in translation. Although their concentration is primarily on...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 1 to Mar 31, May 1 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, TranslationGenres: Prose Poetry, Translation -
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 Scat Books is a small, independent, not-for-profit press dedicated to publishing sublime art and literature, i.e. eccentric art and obscure texts, absurdist fiction,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Erotica, Experimental, Humor, Literary Fiction, Translation -
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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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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Cervena Barva Press was founded in April of 2005. The press solicits poetry, fiction, and translations from various writers around the world. The editors publish writers who...
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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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Coffee House Press creates new spaces for audiences and artists to interact, inspiring readers and enriching communities by expanding the definition of what literature is, what...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to May 31, Oct 1 to Oct 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Literary Fiction, Translation -
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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Our mission is to amplify diverse voices. We are committed to justice, inclusivity, anti-racism, and equity. We strive to craft beautiful books and fanatically support our...
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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky.
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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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Ghostbird Press exists to bring literature and visual art together through chapbooks.
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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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Harvard Square Editions is looking for literary fiction and non-fiction of social and environmental value. Its mission is transcend national boundaries, publishing manuscripts...
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Jacar Press is a Community Active press publishing fine poetry from Pulitzer Prize winners to poets not yet known. Proceeds from all their publications will go to support...
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JLRB Press is a small-run imprint that specializes in poetry, with a strong emphasis on queer and neurodivergent voices and emerging writers.
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Lanternfish Press, founded in Philadelphia in 2013, publishes literature of the rare and strange: fiction that crosses the boundary between literary and speculative; real or...
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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, TranslationGenres: 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...
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