Bottom Dog Press / Bird Dog Publishing is a literary small press with five series: Midwest, Working Lives, Harmony, Memoirs, and Appalachian Writing. They’ve also done some...
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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: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction -
Brick Mantel Books publishes innovative works of literary excellence by new and established writers. They value literature as an art, and they publish literary fiction and...
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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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Regional interest only. Cat and Mouse Press primarily publishes novels and short story collections that could be called “beach reads.” They are not accepting submissions at...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Regional, Serialized Fiction -
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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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 -
Creators Publishing launched in 2006, and since then it has published more than 180 collection books and original manuscripts under three imprints. Its mission is to find...
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Cuidono Press publishes fiction, historical fiction, and history. They look for narratives that take history and culture seriously, whether in service to a great story or in...
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DarkWinter Press and Baxter Editions are looking for novellas, novel-length manuscripts, short story collections, and poetry collections with a twist. They do not publish...
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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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Devil’s Party Press is an imprint of Current Words Publishing, as are the follwoing imprints: Instant Noodles, an online literary magazine, Hawkshaw, for mystery,...
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Digging Press is an independent publisher with a strong commitment to fostering experimentation and cultural inclusion in the realms of literature and visual arts. We believe...
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Divertir Publishing is an independent publisher located in Salem, New Hampshire. Their goal is to provide interesting and entertaining books to the world, as well as to offer...
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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...
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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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Fat Dog Books is an independent online publisher founded on the premise that if their experience with reading a manuscript is satisfying and engages their intellect and...
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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky.
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Forest Avenue Press publishes literary fiction on a joyride and the occasional memoir. They especially love working with BIPOC, queer, neurodivergent, and disabled authors. ...
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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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Golden Antelope Press is a small press operated in conjunction with, or spun off from, its sister presses, the more scholarly Blazing Sapphire and Naciketas Presses. The focus...
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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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Half Mystic Press, established in 2015, is an international and independent publishing house dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms.
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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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