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Dipity Press
Chapbooks at dipity.press must be themed. It’s an international series open to poets of all ages. The editors highlight abstract poetry both the dark and light (comical side)...
Divertir Publishing
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...
Dynamo Verlag
Dynamo Verlag publishes works demonstrating nontraditional poetics: genius, eclecticism, and originality.
Eggtooth Editions
Eggtooth Editions holds an annual chapbook contest for any genre of writing, including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, plays, and hybrid/cross-genre/multi-genre work. The...
El Martillo Press
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 is...
Etchings Press
Etchings Press is UIndy’s teaching press and publishing laboratory. Writers from around the world submit recently published books to the Whirling Prize in the fall in response...
Factory Hollow Press
fhp, imprint of Sleepy Lemur Quality Enterprises, publishes poetry and prose chapbooks and broadsides in limited editions; since early 2000s, fhp encourages others to publish...
Factory Hollow Press
fhp, imprint of Sleepy Lemur Quality Enterprises, publishes poetry and prose chapbooks and broadsides in limited editions; since early 2000s, fhp encourages others to publish...
Fat Dog Books
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...
Fayetteville Mafia Press
Looking for fresh, diverse, original voices for both nonfiction and fiction books. We specialize in the following genres. Nonfiction: pop culture, true crime, and sports....
FC2
Fiction Collective 2 is an author-run, not-for-profit publisher of artistically adventurous, nontraditional fiction.
Fernwood Press
Fernwood Press promotes poetry collections that speak to the human capacity for spiritual experience.
Finishing Line Press
Finishing Line Press an award-winning BIPOC + women-owned and -operated small press publisher located in Georgetown, Kentucky. Since 1998. FLP is a proud member of CLMP.
Foundlings Press
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...
FutureCycle Press
Since 2007, FutureCycle Press has published an eclectic mix of magazines, anthologies, and poetry books by some of the best contemporary English-language poets and writers,...
Gnashing Teeth Publishing
Gnashing Teeth Publishing is committed to including underrepresented voices. They look for unique work with different perspectives, poems which make them hold their breath,...
Grand River Poetry Press
Grand River Poetry Press publishes contemporary poetry in book-length collections, with a special interest in work rooted in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, along with formally...
Green Linden Press
Green Linden Press publishes the Wishing Jewel series for poetic innovation the Essential Voices anthology series, the annual Stephen Mitchell translation series, a chapbook...
Gunpowder Press
Gunpowder Press is an independent literary 501(c)(3) organization based in Santa Barbara, California. Founded in 2013, Gunpowder values community and craft. The press publishes...
Half Mystic Press
Established in 2015, Half Mystic Press is an international, independent, and interdisciplinary publishing house dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms.
Harvard Square Editions
Harvard Square Editions (H2) is looking for nonfiction and fiction (women's, men's, other, uncomfortable truths, red pill, diverse) of social/environmental value. Its mission...
Headmistress Press
Founded in 2013, Headmistress Press specializes in poetry and art by lesbians, and their mission is to increase lesbian visibility in the arts. For many years, they held the...
Heyday
Heyday is an independent, nonprofit publisher with a focus on California and the American West. They publish nonfiction books that explore history, celebrate Native cultural...
High Frequency Press
Created as a response to a changing marketplace by publishing industry veterans, High Frequency publishes only the highest quality work—work the editors believe in...
Hub City Press
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...
Hyssop Press
Founded in 2022, Hyssop Press is an independent publisher dedicated to nurturing new and established authors. The editors believe in investing time and resources into each...
Ig Publishing
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...
IKE: A Publishing Project
IKE: A Publishing Project is an independent book publisher based in Portland, Oregon. It publishes short stories, essays, and poetry in small chapbook editions.
In Case Of Emergency Press
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...
Is a Rose Press
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. ...
Jacar Press
Jacar Press is a Community Active press publishing fine poetry from Pulitzer Prize winners to poets not yet known. Proceeds from sales support progressive programs and...
JackLeg Press
JackLeg employs an environmentally sustainable publishing model and a rigorous editorial process to bring the best new and familiar voices into the literary world. JackLeg...
Kelsey Street Press
Kelsey Street Press was founded in 1974 to address the marginalization of women writers. From the beginning, the editors linked their editorial policy to a poetics of allowance...
L+S Press
L+S Press is the book-publishing arm of Lines + Stars . Through L+S Press, the editors host the annual Mid-Atlantic Chapbook series, which publishes a regional poet’s...
Latah Books
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...
Launch Point Press
Launch Point Press (LPP) is a lesbian-oriented press publishing quality works by newer authors now “launching” their careers or by more experienced authors...
Legacy Book Press, LLC
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...
Liquid Light Press
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...
Literary Wanderlust
Literary Wanderlust is a coalition of professional editors publishing books they love.
Lost Horse Press
Established in 1998 by publisher, editor, and book designer Christine Holbert, Lost Horse Press—a nonprofit independent press based in Scio, Oregon—publishes poetry titles by...
LSU New Orleans Press
LSU New Orleans Press seeks work that contributes to the rich cultural tradition of New Orleans and the surrounding region, as well as work that contributes to the intellectual...
MadHat Press
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,...
Madville Publishing
The mission of Madville Publishing is to produce, publish, and market literary works of the highest quality that reflect a broad range of interests in the modern English-...
Main Street Rag Publishing Company
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....
Manic D Press
Resonant writing in most genres. For forty-plus years, Manic D has published a diverse spectrum of titles by a wide range of writers.
Mayapple Press
Mayapple Press is a small literary press founded in 1978 by poet and editor Judith Kerman. They focus on literature not often celebrated by either the mainstream or the avant-...
Modern Artist Press
Modern Artist Press looks to expand and explode the definition of a modern artist by publishing literary fiction.