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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: Apr 15 to Oct 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
Drinian Press is a small literary publishing house which supports emerging authors of quality fiction and creative nonfiction. They place an emphasis on cooperation with other...
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Dynamo Verlag publishes works demonstrating nontraditional poetics: genius, eclecticism, and originality.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Dzanc Books was created in 2006 to advance great writing and champion those writers who don't fit neatly into the marketing niches of for-profit presses and to advance literary...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Sep 30, Nov 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Literary Fiction -
Eggtooth Editions holds an annual chapbook contest for any genre of writing, including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, plays, and hybrid/cross-genre/multi-genre work. The...
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Essay Press holds print chapbook contests in the summer and print book contests in the fall. The editors particularly welcome manuscripts that extend or challenge the formal...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionGenres: Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Lyric Essay -
Etchings Press is UIndy’s teaching press and publishing laboratory. Writers from around the world submit recently published books to the Whirling Prize in the fall in response...
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Housed at Wilkes University and partnering with Youngstown State University, Etruscan is a nonprofit literary press working to produce and promote books that nurture the...
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Evening Street Press recognizes that all people are created equal and focuses on the realities of experience, personal and historical, from the most gritty to the most...
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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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Fallen Tree Press is a small press specializing in publishing poetry chapbooks. FTP is focused on being part of the larger writing community. It’s their intent to promote a...
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Fence has a mission to redefine the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by...
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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Our press nurtures verse, fiction, and nonfiction from, about, & throughout the borderlands, amplifying the voices of those from the Americas and beyond.
We welcome...
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Flowstone Press publishes contemporary poetry collections and chapbooks.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
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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Four Way Books is dedicated to producing and promoting excellent literary publications and to creating opportunities for writers of merit. They seek to please and expand poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30, Jan 1 to Mar 31, Nov 1 to Nov 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Fruit Bat Press is a handmade, limited edition chapbook press that is based in Chicago and Los Angeles. Fruit bats inspire them because they are dark and sweet at the same time...
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Since 2007, FutureCycle Press has published an eclectic mix of magazines, anthologies, and poetry books by some of the best contemporary English-language poets and writers,...
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Futurepoem is a New York City-based publishing collaborative dedicated to presenting innovative works of contemporary poetry and prose by both emerging and important...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 15 to Jan 15, Jul 15 to Aug 15Genre: PoetryGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental -
Galileo Press is seeking: vivid imagery and the balance of abstract to concrete imagery, the capacity to surprise, an elastic syntax, pace, and music, thematic cohesiveness and...
Read moreReading Period: May 1 to Sep 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices -
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 NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
Gasher Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher founded in 2018. It is interested in fresh voices and innovative forms.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Get Fresh Books is a cooperative press, where their authors, editors, and the publisher create and pursue a vision for the writer’s work.
Reading Period: Oct 15 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry -
Ghostbird Press exists to bring literature and visual art together through chapbooks.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
