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2River
2River prefers poems with these qualities: image, subtlety, and point of view; a surface of worldly exactitude, as well as a depth of semantic ambiguity; and a voice that...
3 Mile Harbor Press
3 Mile Harbor Press is committed to publishing the best diverse work by new and established poets and is particularly interested in finding LGBQT+, BIPOC, feminist, and...
3: A Taos Press
3: A Taos Press is a multicultural and ethically voiced independent press. Their poetry books always have a tight theme in each of them. They do not publish collected works of...
7.13 Books
Please read the submission guidelines on the website carefully before submitting.
96th of October Editions
96th of October Editions concentrates on literary science fiction and fantasy writing and poetry. It is particularly interested in LGBT voices and writing by women. All writing...
Agate Publishing
Under their Bolden imprint, Agate Publishing publishes literary fiction, memoir, and nonfiction. Under their Midway imprint, they publish nonfiction with a particular focus on...
Akashic Books
Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing literary fiction, crime fiction, music/pop culture books, and political nonfiction by authors who...
Alabaster Leaves Publishing
Alabaster Leaves Publishing is for emerging poets. There are no style requirements. Manuscripts are accepted year-round.
Another New Calligraphy
Another New Calligraphy has enjoyed the quiet thrill of making and sharing since 2009. ANC guides writers and musicians in the realization of their work via the production of...
Apogee Press
Apogee Press publishes the work of innovative and experimental poets. Culturally and formally diverse, their poets share an original use of language.
Apollo Publishers
Apollo Publishers publishes narrative and illustrated nonfiction books on topics they deem timely and topical. Books must have broad, trade appeal.
Apprentice House Press
Apprentice House is the nation’s first entirely student-managed book publisher. Students at Loyola University Maryland are responsible for every aspect of the publishing...
April Gloaming Publishing
April Gloaming Publishing is a nonprofit Nashville-based independent press that aims to capture and better understand the Southern soul, Southern writing, and the Southern...
Arte Público Press
Arte Público Press is a nonprofit literary publisher based at the University of Houston. It is mission driven, publishing US Hispanic literature, both contemporary and...
Arteidolia Press
Arteidolia Press is looking for authors who push the gamut of possibilities, for writing that is diverse and inventive, adventuresome and experimental.
Ashland Creek Press
Ashland Creek Press is a small, independent publisher of books for a better planet. Its mission is to publish a range of books that foster an appreciation for worlds outside...
Assure Press
Assure Press connects authors and artists with the world through inspirational and enlightening poetry, nonfiction, motivational, and educational literature that is mostly, but...
Aubade Publishing
Aubade Publishing publishes speculative fiction, historical fiction, and gothic literature as well as poetry collections. They also publish sports memiors. Please do not submit...
Bainbridge Island Press
Bainbridge Island Press is a poetry publisher known for its thoughtful approach to lyrical work. They publish collections, anthologies, and chapbooks that focus on verse that...
Baobab Press
Baobab Press seeks books that communicate and support their themes through new and well-articulated means. They like risk. They like invention. More importantly, they look for...
BearManor Media
The editors seek books on actors, films, television series, anything to do with the performing arts. They also seek Disney park books for our imprint, Theme Park Press, and...
Beatdom Books
Founded in 2007, Beatdom Books is the publisher of Beatdom , a literary journal that explores the Beat Generation and related countercultural movements. They also...
Bella Books
Bella Books publishes lesbian/sapphic fiction of all genres, and is known for award-winning and best-selling f/f romance, mystery, fantasy, paranormal and general fiction.
Bellevue Literary Press
Bellevue Literary Press is devoted to publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences because they believe that science and the...
Belt Publishing
Writing about and from the Rust Belt, smart narrative and serious nonfiction, fiction with a regional foothold, cultural criticism, urbanism, progressive politics, scholarly...
Between the Lines Publishing
BLP is currently accepting engaging stories in search of a great home. Main themes explore the liminal world where anything can happen. Liminal is anything “in-between” or “...
betweenthehighway
betweenthehighway is a press publishes on receipt paper. Inspired by accounting books from the Japanese Edo period, each book features the work of one writer. Please see the...
Big Table Publishing Company
If they love your manuscript and offer you a contract, Big Table Publishing Company will provide editing, advice and direction (if you need it), the services of their art...
Bitter Oleander Press
Books by the Bitter Oleander Press represent some of the best of contemporary poetry published in English and in translation. Although their concentration is primarily on...
Black Beacon Books
Black Beacon Books is an independent publisher founded by author and anthologist, Cameron Trost. It began in Australia in 2013 and is now based in Brittany. We publish...
Black Glove Press
Black Glove Press is a collective of writers, artists, occultists, surrealists, and weirdos. The editors like books that crack open reality and allow us to peek through. The...
Black Mountain Press
The Black Mountain Press’ first publications were done in collaboration with other publishers and focused on design and the then new digital technology. Established in 1994,...
Black Scat Books
Black Scat Books is a small, independent, not-for-profit press. They are are currently reading submissions to their magazine: TYPO: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROTOTYPES...
BlazeVOX
BlazeVOX [books] presents innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Their books push at the frontiers of what is possible with their innovative poetry...
Bottom Dog Press / Bird Dog Publishing
Bottom Dog Press / Bird Dog Publishing is a literary small press with five series: Midwest, Working Lives, Harmony, Memoirs, and Appalachian Writing. They’ve also done some...
Brick Mantel Books
Brick Mantel Books publishes innovative works of literary excellence by new and established writers. We value literature as an art, and they publish literary fiction and...
Broken Tribe Press
Broken Tribe Press was formed to meet the needs of wanderers, misplaced artists, and misfits of the literary world. With a domestic North American focus, Broken Tribe publishes...
Bywater Books
Bywater Books, Inc. represents the coming of age of queer literature.
Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library
The focus of the Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library is mostly poetry. The press has a specialized series of poetry/art books with art created by the author, or a...
Circling Rivers
Circling Rivers is an independent publisher of literary nonfiction and poetry by and about Walt Whitman.
Codhill Press
Codhill Press is devoted exclusively to the advancement and appreciation of the finest works in poetry and prose which promise to search out important meanings for life.
Complicit Press
Complicit Press is a nonprofit publishing imprint of the Execution Intervention Project. It publishes books about the death penalty, death sentences, and executions. It seeks...
Cooper Dillon Books
Cooper Dillon is a small poetry press committed to upholding the virtues of poetry as a high art and expression of truth, beauty, and sincerity: the values...
Creators Publishing
Creators Publishing launched in 2006, and since then it has published more than 180 collection books and original manuscripts under three imprints. Its mission is to find...
Crisis Chronicles Press
The press is flexible with a broad taste, though most of their books in print are poetry collections.