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.
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.
Dithering Chaps
Indie publisher of poetry chapbooks based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice.
Finishing Line Press
Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky, USA.
Purple Ink Press
We are a small, independent non-profit press. We are BIPOC founded and aim to publish what is unusual and work about in-between spaces. Our publications highlight unexpected and wonderful places. We especially seek to amplify BIPOC and Queer voices.
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.
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.
Tupelo Press
An independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers
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.
Persea Books
Persea is an independent, literary publishing house founded in 1975 by Michael and Karen Braziller. Persea has published hundreds of engaging and consequential books ncluding poetry, fiction, essays, memoir, biography, and revived classics.
Querencia Press
Querencia Press is an independent publisher, seeking to amplify overlooked & marginalized voices. We want to create a safe space for writers and artists to share their stories. We are especially interested in work that may have been looked over in the past.
Fiction Collective Two
A literary alternative since 1974; a small, not-for-profit publisher run by authors, Fiction Collective Two is a hub for artistically adventurous, non-traditional fiction. Every year FC2 awards the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize.
thelunchhour
online & print literary collective for all genres.
Autumn House Press
A nonprofit, literary publisher based in Pittsburgh, PA. We publish full-length collections of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We accept manuscripts for our annual prizes and through our open-call reading period.
Nightboat Books
An independent book publisher and non-profit based in Brooklyn
Phoenix Voices Publishing
Raising the Voices of the Unheard from the Ashes. We specialize in supporting and promoting authors who often go unheard in our society.
Unleash Press
Treating each book as a work of art, Unleash Press publishes a limited number of single-author manuscripts each year, along with themed anthologies and resource books.
Brick Road Poetry Press
poetry made to edify - We are an independent poetry press based in Birmingham, AL.
Eggtooth Editions
Eggtooth Editions is an independent press that holds an annual chapbook contest. All genres are accepted. See our Contest Page for more details. We are proudly affiliated with the Northern Arizona Book Festival.
7.13 Books
7.13 Books is committed to making beautiful works of literary fiction and offering a publishing experience that’s respectful to and even reverent of first-time authors.
8th House Publishing
8th House Publishing publishes exemplary fiction, philosophy, esoterica and other earnest works.