Presses
Finding the right press for your manuscript is half publishing, half matchmaking, all exhausting. Filter by genre, then narrow by acceptance rate or response time.
Steel Toe Books
Founded in 2003, Steel Toe Books has published 30 books and is excited to add prose (fiction and nonfiction) books to our diverse catalog of upcoming titles.
Tulipwood Books
Tulipwood works with poets to develop and publish their poetry manuscript, transforming a project idea into a book. After its release, we support this book in bookstores, book fairs, and events with the author and their community. Plus royalties.
Neon Hemlock
A Washington, DC-based small press publishing speculative fiction, rad zines and queer chapbooks. We punctuate our titles with oracle decks, occult ephemera and literary candles.
Bundle Press
Bundle is a small, independent press based in Houston that publishes fiction, poetry, and hybrid, experimental works. A home for wayward writers in the Gulf Coast and beyond.
Silverfish Review Press
Portland-based poetry press and journal founded 1988, publishing full-length collections via annual award. One of the Pacific Northwest's most respected independent poetry publishers.
Edge & Busby Press
We publish literary horror that holds emerging and established writers to one standard: fiction that unravels the reader.
Faber
Independent publishing houses founded in 1929 with T. S. Eliot as the first Poetry Editor.
Choo Choo Press
Choo Choo Press is a non-profit publishing project dedicated to poetry, artists' books, and thoughtful nonfiction.
Finishing Line Press
Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky, USA.
Tree of Life Books
You have a story to tell. We have the expertise.
Milkweed Editions
An independent literary press. We serve authors and readers by publishing life-changing books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Gasher Press
To ensure diversity, accessibility, and innovation in the literary arts, Gasher Press dedicates itself to the support of literary communities and emerging voices in meaningful collaboration and transformative vision.
Dzanc Books
Dzanc Books was created in 2006 to advance great writing and to impact communities nationally with our efforts to promote literary readership and advocacy of creative writing workshops and readings offered across the country.
Tupelo Press
An independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers
Black Lawrence Press
An independent publisher of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Through our annual contests and open reading periods, we seek innovative, electrifying, and thoroughly intoxicating manuscripts that ensnare themselves in our hearts and minds and won’t let go.
Sarabande Books
Award-winning independent publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay.
Red Hen Press
An independent, non-profit press that publishes about twenty books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry every year. We’re looking for novels, memoir, creative nonfiction, hybrid works, and story, essay, and poetry collections of exceptional literary merit that demonstrate a high level of mastery.
Long Day Press
A Chicago-based novella and chapbook publisher. Since 2015, we have published boundary-pushing work with an emphasis on emerging Midwestern writers.
C&R Press
Since 2006 we’ve helped writers and readers prove literature is an essential part of life and culture, and thirteen years later, we’re still doing it.
Headmistress Press
Headmistress Press publishes books of poetry by lesbians, Lesbian Poet Trading Cards, and Lavender Review. Headmistress specializes in poetry and art by lesbians, and our mission is to increase lesbian visibility in the arts.