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Forest Avenue Press [1]

Basic Information

Address:

P.O. Box 80134

Zip / Postal Code:

97280

Submission Guidelines:

https://forestavenuepress.com/submissions [2]

City:

Portland

Website:

https://forestavenuepress.com [3]

Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.):

State:

Oregon

Country:

United States

Contact Information

Contact Title:

Publisher

Contact First Name:

Laura

Stanfill

Contact E-mail:

Details

Genres Published:

Fiction

Creative Nonfiction

Publishes Through Contests Only:

Reading Period:

Sunday, January 4, 2026 to Friday, February 6, 2026

Response Time:

Less than 3 months

Book Types:

Novel

Memoir

Formats:

Paperback

E-book

Audio

Charges Reading Fee:

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Distributors:

Publishers Group West

Tips From the Editor:

We love manuscripts that inspire delight and wonder, so we’re not the best place for angry stories or deeply sad ones. We are primarily a fiction press and only look at memoirs on an occasional by-request basis.

Titles per Year:

1 to 5

Editorial Focus:

Forest Avenue Press publishes literary fiction on a joyride and the occasional memoir. They especially love working with BIPOC, queer, neurodivergent, and disabled authors.

Representative Authors:

Stevan Allred, Dan Berne, Kate Gray, Ellen Urbani, Robert Hill, Jamie Duclos-Yourdon, Renee Macalino Rutledge, Michael Shou-Yung Shum

How many authors debut in each issue?:

Publishing type:

print only [4]

Subgenres:

Autobiography/Memoir [5]

BIPOC Voices [6]

Cross-genre [7]

LGBTQ Voices [8]

Literary Fiction [9]

Magical Realism [10]