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Airlie Press
Airlie Press is a nonprofit publisher run by writers, dedicated to cultivating and sustaining fine contemporary poetry and to promoting poets from the Pacific Northwest and...
Antenna Press
Aligning with Antenna’s mission, Antenna Press is interested in publishing ideas that, and are at the intersection of gender and identity, the environment, equity, renewable...
Anvil Press Publishers, Inc.
Anvil Press is a Vancouver literary press founded in 1991. Now in its twenty-fifth year of publishing, Anvil has firmly established itself as a publisher of progressive,...
Black Lawrence Press
Black Lawrence Press is an independent publisher of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. They hold open reading periods during the months of June and November...
Blue Horse Press
Though not their only interest, Blue Horse Press has a strong like for poetry of place and the relationship between lives and landscapes. Most importantly, they seek an economy...
Brooklyn Arts Press
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...
Button Poetry
Button Poetry values energy and voice and force, work that crosses borders or effaces them completely, work that enters into larger social conversations, work that lives in the...
CavanKerry Press
CavanKerry Press seeks materials from the broadest range of writers, including people of color and people with disabilities. We are partial to writers whose distinct voices are...
Coffee House Press
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...
Cuidono Press
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...
Four Way Books
Four Way Books is dedicated to producing and promoting excellent literary publications and to creating opportunities for writers of merit. They seek to please and expand poetry...
Galileo Press
Galileo Press is seeking: vivid imagery and the balance of abstract to concrete imagery, the capacity to surprise, an elastic syntax, pace, and music, thematic cohesiveness and...
Game Over Books
Game Over Books is a small publisher run collaboratively by a group of nerdy artists. Their goal is to amplify diverse voices in writing and bring high-quality publications to...
Gold Line Press
Gold Line Press, founded in 2010, aims to promote the work of emerging poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction writers, and to elevate the chapbook form. The ...
Golden Antelope Press
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...
Homeward Books
Homeward Books publishes books that defy the constraints of genre. It is primarily interested in literate, incisive speculative fiction—science fiction,...
JEF Books / Journal of Experimental Fiction
Journal of Experimental Fiction (JEF) Books publishes the foremost in innovative fiction.
Lanternfish Press
Lanternfish Press, founded in Philadelphia in 2014, publishes literature of the rare and strange: fiction that crosses the boundary between literary and speculative; real or...
Loblolly Press
Loblolly Press is an independent publisher based in Asheville, North Carolina, dedicated to contemporary poetry, short fiction, and novels rooted in the American South.
McPherson & Company
An independent house since 1974, McPherson & Company publishes contemporary English and American fiction, twentieth-century international fiction in translation, nonfiction...
Miami University Press
Miami University Press publishes poetry and poetry in translation, novellas and short fiction, and books about Miami University nonfiction.
Nightboat Books
Nightboat Books publishes work that resists convention and transcends boundaries—books rich with poignancy, intelligence, and risk.
Quill & Crow Publishing House
Quill & Crow Publishing House is an independent press that publishes dark fiction and nonfiction titles. Celebrating all things Gothic and macabre, they strive to preserve...
Red Dirt Press
Red Dirt Press, LLC, is dedicated to publishing emerging and established voices of the contemporary American South. They are drawn to voices that shine a light on the...
Rinky Dink Press
rinky dink press (rdp) is on a mission to get poetry back in the hands (and pockets) of the people. To date, the press has published over 150 single-author micro-collections in...
River River Books
River River Books was founded by Amorak Huey and Han VanderHart in March 2022. Inspired by the idea that you cannot step in the same river twice, two poetry editors join...
Roadside Press
Roadside Press is a leading publisher dedicated to preserving and celebrating the legacy of the literary underground. With a diverse catalog spanning poetry, fiction, and...
Rose Metal Press
Founded in January of 2006, Rose Metal Press is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher whose mission is to produce beautiful books in hybrid genres, by which they mean...
Seneca Review Books
Seneca Review Books publishes one book every other year through the biennial Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize. The press accepts submissions during odd-numbered years.
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions
Sheila-Na-Gig online/Sheila-Na-Gig Editions seeks well-crafted poems with excellent imagery and a strong sense of voice. Our bias leans toward free verse, but we are also open...
Song Cave
The Song Cave is dedicated to recovering a lost sensibility and creating a new one by publishing books of poetry, translations, art criticism, and making art prints and other...
South Broadway Press
South Broadway Press is a publisher of poetry through books, print journals, and on their online journal.
Thirty West Publishing House
Thirty West Publishing House is open to many literary themes and poetic forms and styles. Think of how you can escape the mundane before you submit. The succinct, the...
Trio House Press
Trio House Press publishes literary creative nonfiction and poetry that highlights voices, topics, and angles that are underrepresented in contemporary literature, and that...
Ugly Duckling Presse
Ugly Duckling Presse is a non-profit publisher of poetry, translation, experimental prose, performance texts, and books by artists. UDP favors emerging, international, and “...
White Stag Publishing
White Stag publishes esoteric books and anthologies in the scope of alchemy and the occult with intersections of science and magic, witchcraft and activism, mysticism and...
Yellow Arrow Publishing
Yellow Arrow Publishing supports and inspires writers identifying as women through publication and access to the literary arts. Women’s voices have historically been...