Founded in June 2011 by Teresa Mei Chuc, the mission of Shabda Press is to support and uplift diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented voices. They publish new, emerging,...
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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: Jun 30 to Jul 30Genre: PoetryGenres: BIPOC Voices -
Shanti Arts Publishing is devoted to producing beautiful and compelling books related to art, nature, and spirit.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Translation -
Sheila-Na-Gig INC (Editions) supports the work of both established and emerging poets and fiction writers through the publication of poetry chapbooks and poetry collections and...
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Founded in 2010, Sibling Rivalry Press is an independent publishing house based just outside of Little Rock, Arkansas, in the small town of Alexander. Their mission is to...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Cross-genre, Erotica, Experimental, Feminist, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Love, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional -
Siglio publishes uncommon books that live in the rich and varied space between art and literature. Driven by its feminist ethos, Siglio champions uncategorizable, unwieldy, and...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for Northern California poets. Founded in 1999 by...
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Reading Period: Feb 15 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry
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Sponsors an annual Poetry Chapbook Contest offering $1,000 prize and 50 copies. Details at www.slipstreampress.org/guide....
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Solum Literary Press currently publishes poetry chapbooks and collections, novellas, novels, and short story collections.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual -
The Song Cave is dedicated to recovering a lost sensibility and creating a new one by publishing books of poetry, translations, art criticism, and making art prints and other...
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Southeast Missouri State University Press, founded in 2001, serves as a first-rate publisher in an underpublished area of the nation.
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Spaceboy Books seeks weird, innovative, and optimistic science fiction from new and published authors. Quality, inventive, and engaging prose, plus fun new ideas, will catch...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
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Squill Publishing exists to do one thing, which happens to be many things. They want to coach young creators on the process of turning their work into something great. They...
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Sterncastle Publishing is an independent, traditional publisher focusing on fiction, folklore, poetry, memoir, and biography. Sterncastle’s mission is to broaden the literary...
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Stillhouse Press is committed to publishing writers, both emerging and established. They focus specifically on the idea “craft publishing,” working with authors to bring their...
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A 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary press collective founded in 2000, Sundress Publications is entirely volunteer-run, publishes chapbooks and full-length works in both print and...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 31, Dec 1 to Feb 28, Mar 1 to May 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Switchback Books challenges gender inequity by publishing books of poetry by women and nonbinary authors. Switchback has published more than 20 books since its founding in 2006...
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Established in 2015, Sword & Kettle Press is a tiny independent publishing house. They publish inclusive feminist fantasy and speculative writing, create resources for...
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Terrapin Books is a small press for poetry books. We publish single author full-length collections, an occasional anthology, and craft books. We run two open reading periods...
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Thirty West Publishing House is open to many literary themes and poetic forms and styles. Never really pigeonholed themselves to one market. They enjoy the succinct, the...
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Reading Period: Dec 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry
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Tolsun Books is into books that use separate parts to make a whole: poetry, short stories, comics poetry, hybrids, photo stories, new styles that they haven’t thought of yet....
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Jul 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Graphic/Illustrated, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Trembling Pillow Press publishes new and established authors focusing on works that are experimental with a preference for poetics based on anthropological, archaeological,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
