Latah Books is likeliest to accept full-length books with driving narrative force: literary and upmarket novels, as well as memoirs, travelogues, and other narrative nonfiction...
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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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Launch Point Press (LPP) is a lesbian-oriented press publishing quality works by newer authors now “launching” their careers or by more experienced authors...
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Lavender Ink publishes full-length (i.e. over a hundred pages) poetry, fiction, nonfiction, cultural/literary criticism, and hybrid genres. Diálogos publishes the same genres...
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Legacy Book Press LLC is a traditional publisher seeking to traditionally publish personal stories, widely defined. It must be book-length (at least 100 pages) but can take the...
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Lily Poetry Review Books seeks chapbook and full-length poetry collections and have a wide aesthetic with a penchant for concision, strong imagery, inventive language, and...
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The mission of Liquid Light Press is to promote the artistic sharing of the human journey to consciousness and inner experiences difficult to express in linear vocabulary. They...
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Literary Wanderlust is a coalition of professional editors publishing books they love.
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Litmus Press cultivates a critical, poetic space in which disparate languages, genres, geographies, and artistic lineages converge, bringing forth singular,...
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The goal of Little Red Tree Publishing is to publish books that are accessible to everyone, combining their desire to educate and their love of quality books with an interest...
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Livingston Press was founded in 1983 by Charles Henley as a means to publish regional authors. Under Joe Musso in 1988, the press expanded, to publish books by regional authors...
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Loblolly Press is a press publishing poetry, short fiction, and novels from new and established writers. Loblolly Press publishes work that embodies a profound sense of place,...
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Longleaf Press publishes poetry and prose of exceptional literary merit by both established and emerging authors.
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Longship Press is a small-press publishing company based in Marin County, California. Its aim is to give voice to writers and canvas to artists. Providing the printed page to...
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Established in 1978, Loom Press publishes books by emerging writers and artists from the New England area. In addition to poetry, Loom Press titles range from documentary...
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Los Nietos Press is looking for book-length works of poetry and/or short story. They are looking for work that is about the person, but also about place; work that sheds light...
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Established in 1998 by publisher, editor, and book designer Christine Holbert, Lost Horse Press—a nonprofit independent press based in Liberty Lake, Washington—publishes poetry...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 15 to May 15Genre: Poetry, TranslationGenres: Formal Poetry, Micro-poetry, Speculative Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry, War -
Named after the “American haiku” co-invented by Jack Collom and Robert Kelly, and inspired by the sense of poetry as correspondence, The Lune’s first editions were...
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Lynx House is an independent nonprofit publisher devoted to extending and enhancing the cultural conversation through the publication of fine poetry and fiction. If it has a...
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The Mad Duck Coalition publishing house is a haven for the intellectually curious. A flock of brave mad men and women, they are interested in unique ideas, excellent...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Pop Culture, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, War, Young Adult -
MadHat Press is a leading publisher of unique and vital contemporary poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and criticism. It seeks to foster the work of writers and poets: explosive,...
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The mission of Madville Publishing is to produce, publish, and market literary works of the highest quality that reflect the diversity of the modern English-speaking world....
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Main Street Rag is best known for publishing poetry, but they also publish novels, novellas, short story collections, and essay collections. Guidelines are on their website....
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Good writing in most genres. For 40 years, Manic D has published a diverse spectrum of titles by a wide range of writers.
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Marsh Hawk Press books often highlight the affinity of poetry and the visual arts. Each book is produced with particular care to visual style, often including reproductions of...
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El Martillo Press publishes writers whose pens strike the page with clear intent; words with purpose to pry apart assumed norms and to hammer away at injustice. El Martillo...
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