Orison Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary press focused on the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives.
Small Presses
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: Oct 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
An independent publisher of poetry that runs counter to the mainstream, Ornithopter Press has published individual collections by contemporary authors since 2014. The press...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 22 to Nov 12Genre: Poetry -
Other Press attracts authors who are guided by a passion to discover the limits of knowledge and imagination.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Provocative reading. Literary, engaged, independent, forward-leaning. Exceptional fiction. Unexpected essays. Voices to be reckoned with. Their fiction belongs to a broad range...
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Overcup Press is an independent publishing house with national distribution. Query letters on these nonfiction topics are of particular interest:
- Creative...
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Creative Nonfiction -
Bringing together poets and artists to create affordable letterpress printed poetry booklets (pamphlets).
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
Palavro Publishing (an imprint of the Arkbound Foundation) focuses on underrepresented and diverse authors whose books cover important social or environmental themes. The...
Read moreReading 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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: BIPOC Voices, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices -
The primary goal of Parlor Press is to publish outstanding writing and scholarship in various subjects for a broad range of readers. Parlor Press values excellence, innovation...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Jun 15Genre: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationGenres: Prose Poetry, Translation -
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.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionGenres: Literary Fiction -
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....
Read moreReading Period: Feb 1 to Feb 28, Nov 1 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Perugia Press has published the best new women poets since 1997. Each year they produce one book, the winner of their annual contest, by a woman poet with no more than one...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Nov 15Genre: Poetry -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Aug 1 to Jan 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction -
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...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
Plan B Press encourages, captures, presents, and preserves contemporary poetry by publishing and presenting emerging poets. They are a small independent publishing company that...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genres: Cross-genre -
Poetic Matrix Press was founded in the high mountain beauty of Yosemite in 1997 and has since grown into a press that is producing full-length books as fine as any that can be...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
The editors are very eclectic in their taste and love to be surprised.
Reading Period: Feb 1 to Mar 15Genre: Poetry -
Reading Period: Jul 1 to Aug 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry
