Palavro Publishing (an imprint of the Arkbound Foundation) focuses on underrepresented and diverse authors whose books cover important social or environmental themes. The...
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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 NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, Nature/Environmental -
PALOMA PRESS is the first Southeast Asian/Filipino American publishing house founded on the San Francisco Peninsula. We welcome diverse voices and perspectives, and especially...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry, Prose Poetry -
Pandamoon Publishing is an independent publishing house in Austin, Texas. It is a royalty-paying, non-subsidy publisher who believes the relationship between the author and the...
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Papeachu Press is a small feminist book publisher for female, nonbinary, and genderqueer creators. They publish both chapbooks and full-length collections of poetry, short...
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Participant Press is the publishing enterprise of Participant Inc. The primary focus of the press is to publish artists’ works of fiction and artists books.
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Devoted to promoting the work of older writers, Passager Books publishes a select number of books each year by writers who have been published in Passager journal....
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Based in the D.C. area, they’re obviously partial to poets and writers in the Delmarva area. But they have published books by a British poet and other writers scattered along...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 8, Jun 1 to Jun 8Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Experimental, Flash Fiction, Pop Culture -
The editors look for literature that provides social commentary and endeavors to make an impact through the art of storytelling. They are drawn to poetry, but they consider...
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P+B Publications is an independent publisher, seeking the best new work by women and nonbinary authors. In the spirit of Pen + Brush, they believe fervently that their...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction -
Persea Books is an independent, literary publishing house founded in 1975 by Michael Braziller and Karen Braziller, who still own and direct the company. Over the past decades...
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Pieran Springs Press is a literary publisher of poetry, novels, short stories, and both general and academic creative nonfiction with a focus on memoir and essays. Their...
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Pig Roast Publishing was founded by Jeff Schneider in Providence, Rhode Island. An independent press, Pig Roast Publishing is focused on transgressive and outsider books with a...
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Pink Trees Press publishes poetry, memoirs, and anthologies born out of the New York City downtown arts scene. Currently, focusing on writers who have been active in the arts...
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Plan B Press encourages, captures, presents, and preserves contemporary poetry by publishing and presenting emerging poets. They are a small independent publishing company that...
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Poetry and microfiction with a strong narrative. They like the lyrical, embrace the formal as well as spoken word. Clarity is essential. They love pop culture. They also...
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Founded in 1971, the press specializes in lesser-known 1960s, 1970s New York poets, neoromantic and gothic poetry, annotated reprints of lost poets, new translations of classic...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationGenres: LGBTQ Voices, Regional, Translation -
Short fiction and poetry only. Our editors operate like professional baseball scouts: they seek out writers they would like to work with by reading magazine, journals, etc....
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Mar 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenres: Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction -
Publishing Genius aims to make the best books by devoted members of the global literary community, and to make them in the most interesting and progressive ways. That’s because...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction, Micro-poetry
