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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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: May 1 to Nov 1Subgenres: Cross-genre, Feminist, Historical, Literary Fiction, Pop Culture
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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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Great Weather for MEDIA focuses on the unpredictable, the fearless, the bright, the dark, and the innovative. They are based in New York City and showcase both national and...
Read moreReading Period: Oct 15 to Jan 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Cross-genre, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Prose Poetry -
Green Writers Press is a predominantly an environmentally focused publisher of novels, poetry, memoir, essays, and some science writing. Their list is nature-based and...
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Grid Books is a publisher of poetry, fiction, and fine art editions foregrounding creative work that springs from the margins and promoting work that reflects a diversity of...
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Gutter Snob Books is a press dedicated to publishing “literature for the discerning degenerate.”
Reading Period: May 1 to May 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction -
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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Hanging Loose Press seeks to make the publishing tent as big as the press can make it, uplifting emerging and underrepresented poets and writers.
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Harvard Square Editions is looking for literary fiction of social and environmental value. Its mission is transcend national boundaries, publishing manuscripts that are...
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Holland Park Press, founded in 2009, is a privately owned independent company publishing literary fiction: novels, novellas, short stories; and poetry. The company is run by...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Commercial Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Hot Redhead Media is a small press that represents experimental and traditional literary work in multiple genres.
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Howling Bird Press publishes the best in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. They run an annual nationwide contest in alternating genres. They are the imprint of Augsburg...
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Founded in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1995, Hub City Press is the South’s premier independent literary press. Focused on finding and spotlighting extraordinary new and...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Apr 30, Sep 1 to Oct 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Regional -
Ice Cube Press explores the pulse and voice of the Heartland through the use of the literary arts. How can people best live in the Midwest, from fiction and fact, to journalism...
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Ig Publishing is a New York-based award-winning independent press dedicated to publishing original literary fiction from writers who have been overlooked by the mainstream...
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Illuminated Press is a micro publisher that amplifies a wide range of voices through publishing. Writers of any age and experience whose work explores social, political, and/or...
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In Case Of Emergency Press publishes a small number of literary works every year: poetry, short stories, scripts, and longer fiction. If you have a manuscript ready, they’d be...
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The Inlandia Institute is a regionally-focused literary nonprofit and publishing house. They offer an annual poetry book competition, the Hillary Gravendyk Prize, that is open...
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is a rose press publishes poetry, poetics, experimental writing, hybrid, cross-genre, and other work. They are a cooperative editorial board of writers in the virtual world. ...
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JackLeg employs an environmentally sustainable publishing model and a rigorous editorial process to bring the best new and familiar voices into the literary world. At JackLeg,...
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Jaded Ibis is feminist press committed to publishing socially engaged literature with an emphasis on the voices of people of color, people with disabilities, and other...
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Journal of Experimental Fiction (JEF) Books publishes the foremost in innovative fiction.
Reading Period: Jun 1 to Aug 1Genre: FictionSubgenres: Experimental, Literary Fiction -
k+p press was founded in 2020 by Beth Kantrowitz and Roberta Paul, childhood friends and longtime artistic collaborators, who were inspired to launch a new creative venture...
Read moreReading Period: Jul 1 to Jan 1Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction -
Kernpunkt is an independent publisher of experimental writing. They enjoy symbolism, non-traditional form, unique characters, and taboo. They like “challenging.” In short,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction -
Lanternfish Press, founded in Philadelphia in 2013, publishes literature of the rare and strange: fiction that crosses the boundary between literary and speculative; real or...
Read moreReading Period: Mar 1 to Mar 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction