An innovative small independent poetry publisher dedicated to publishing challenging, well-crafted poetry. We love writing that is moving and provocative from strong, fresh, diverse voices.

Against the Grain

An independent publisher based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. Kevin and Hetha Duffy started Bluemoose in 2006 and as a ‘family’ of readers and writers we’re passionate about the written word and stories. Stories are transformative and as publishers we delight in finding great new talent.

Bluemoose Books

A nonprofit, independent poetry publisher based in Port Townsend, WA. We believe poetry is vital to language and living. Our biannual open reading periods allow us to read and consider book-length poetry manuscripts, including works in translation, for publication.

Copper Canyon Press

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.

Dzanc Books

The Feminist Press publishes books that ignite movements and social transformation. Celebrating our legacy, we lift up insurgent and marginalized voices from around the world to build a more just future.

Feminist Press

Your shitty prose, fucked-up line breaks, abandoned sketches, nonsensical plots, and so on. Everybody else wants your best—we want your worst.

BULLSHIT PRESS

your favorite MySpace disaster press <3 <3 <3

Gutslut Press

Peepal Tree Press is the world’s leading publisher of Caribbean and Black British writing. We publish around 20 titles a year. Founded in 1986, Peepal Tree’s publishing programme has brought readers the best of international writing from the Caribbean, its diasporas and Black British writers.

Peepal Tree Press

We are Penned in the Margins. We believe in the power of language to challenge how we think, test new ideas and explore alternative stories.

Penned in the Margins

We believe that great stories don’t fit neatly in a box. Most stories available today are simply run-of-the-mill, unoriginal, and in the end, boring, which makes you feel tired and unheard.

Running Wild Press

An independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers

Tupelo Press

Founded in 2006, Essay Press publishes artful, innovative writing that questions convention and explores issues of significant contemporary relevance. EP considers the essay as a form to be rooted in its etymological origins: as a trying, as an attempt, as a process.

Essay Press

An independent publishing house based in India and the UK, founded in 2021, with a sincere heart to publish some of the finest works by new and emerging talents of dark literature. 

Dark Lake Publishing 

Gap Riot Press publishes experimental, visual, innovative, and genre-blurring work by primarily Canadian poets that push the limits of poetry. Gap Riot Press is run collaboratively by women. Gap Riot Press is anarchist at its heart and communal by nature. 

Gap Riot Press

Pamenar Press is an independent cross-cultural, multilingual, experimental publisher, based in the UK, Canada and Iran.

Pamenar Press

A small press based in SLC. We make handbound small-edition books of poetry, translation, and prose.

Carrion Bloom Books

From Epic to Urban and Aliens to AI, Cloaked Press is committed to connecting readers with great Science Fiction and Fantasy stories to delight the imagination.

Cloaked Press

Publishes booklets of poetry, prose, and hybrid work.

The Economy Press

Creating books that promote unique voices and diverse perspectives

Parisian Phoenix Publishing

We publish inclusive feminist fantasy & speculative writing, create resources for writers & publishers, and make beautiful books.

Sword & Kettle Press

The 2022-2023 Fonograf Editions Essay Collection contest, judged by Maggie Nelson, is for an author’s first or second essay collection. 

Fonograf Editions

A new, gothic chapbook press for your worst aches.

Wrong Publishing

The Story Plant was founded in 2008 by two long-term industry professionals, Lou Aronica and Peter Miller. From the start, the company has been dedicated to publishing quality fiction and to developing authors.

The Story Plant

Australia's leading independent publisher and is the 2020 Publisher of the Year. We have been voted "Publisher of the Year" fourteen times including in the inaugural award in 1992 and eleven times since 2000.

Allen & Unwin

An award-winning independent publisher of fiction and nonfiction, based in southeast Michigan and founded in 2016. We publish the best in independent books in the adult, teen, and children's market. We’re always looking for new, fresh and innovative work.

BHC 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.

Black Lawrence

City of Light Publishing was founded on the idea that we can all be a light in the world.

City of Light Publishing

An independent publishing house that strongly believes in developing a personal relationship with their authors. The Texas-based publishing company doesn't see authors as clients or just another number on a page, but rather as individual people... people who deserve an honest review of their material and to be paid traditional royalties without ever paying any fees to be published.

Black Rose Writing

An independent press based in Frankfort, Kentucky. While specializing in poetry, we publish works in a variety of genres, from both established and emerging writers.

Broadstone Books

An independent publisher. We publish Digging Through The Fat: A Journal for Cultural Omnivores, a chapbook series, and biennial poetry series. We also produce a podcast and host a reading series.

Digging Press

Four Way Books is dedicated to producing and promoting excellent literary publications and to creating opportunities for writers of merit.

Four Way Books

An independent publisher committed to publishing daring, innovative fiction and narrative non-fiction.

Galley Beggar Press

We’re seeking personal essay, memoir, confessional poetry, curated journal/diary, curated letters/e-mail, hybrid explorations of the self, and any writing that makes art from your life.

Autofocus Books

A literary press of printed books and e-books by select poets and authors.

Pine Row Press

Outcast Press wants stories cut from the bone, written from the gristle that sticks to your soul, based off brain-burning images scorched onto paper. We like raw, honest, dark, in-your-face, tales.

Outcast Press

Perennial Press archives truths through fiction, art and poetry. We are committed to highlighting and uplifting voices & perspectives that have traditionally been underrepresented in literature. We center narratives of womxn, people of color, and queer folks.

Perennial Press

An independent publisher of poetry and fiction based in Colorado. We showcase gut-punch free verse and eye-opening prose from across the U.S. and abroad. We are the confluence of Charles Simic and Ray Bradbury, with pieces that leave you feeling like you need to re-read them again, right on the spot.

Hidden Peak Press

Kensington Publishing Corp. is located in New York City and is known as “America’s Independent Publisher.” The house of New York Times bestselling authors, including Fern Michaels, Lisa Jackson, Joanne Fluke, William W. Johnstone, and many others, Kensington publishes over 500 fiction and non-fiction titles each year.

Kensington Publishing Corp.

An independent publisher of literary works. We enjoy symbolism, non-traditional plots, unique characters, taboo, and experimentation. We like challenging. In short, we value art over entertainment.

KERNPUNKT Press

Mad Creek Books is the literary trade imprint of The Ohio State University Press. With a mission to foster creativity, innovate, and illuminate, Mad Creek Books champions diverse and creative literary nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.

Mad Creek Books

An independent book publishing company. We're committed to publishing books that will thrive in the 21st Century. Our press specializes in non-fiction titles with a specific focus on literary nonfiction, art, travel, design, and epicurean titles.

Overcup Press

A worker-owned publisher based in Brooklyn, New York. Radix Media publishes fresh perspectives, prioritizing the voices of typically marginalized communities to get to the root of the human experience. The name Radix comes from the Latin root of the word radical, meaning to get to the root.

Radix Media

A nonprofit literary press founded in Louisville, Kentucky. Established in 1994 to champion poetry, fiction, and essay, we are committed to creating lasting editions that honor exceptional writing.

Sarabande Books

A fiercely independent New York-based publisher inspired by diversity, dada, punk, and passion.

Three Rooms Press

Reinventing publishing...one step at a time.

Tortoise Books

A small press based out of Portland, Oregon. We focus on literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Whether you craft short stories, novels, chapbooks, memoirs, or essay collections, we want to read it.

Unsolicited Press

We like to blur the line between commercial and experimental works. We publish book-length vignette collections, writing reference books, short story collections, memoir/autobiography, and character-driven novels with a literary bent.​​

Vine Leaves Press

Half Mystic, established in 2015, is an international and independent publishing project dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms. 

Half Mystic Press

At Musing Publications we aim to uplift voices of writers and artists from all backgrounds. Our main goal is to publish works from underrepresented communities - writers/artists that are women, people of color, disabled and LGBTQ+ identifying. 

Musing Publications

Bell Press is a publisher of literary anthologies that publishes short stories, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry from across all genres.

Bell Press

"My soul shall be lifted nevermore" — poetry collections and anthologies

Ravens Quoth Press

Independent poetry press for the unheard, the raucous & the witches; celebrating wilder weather, deep roots, and green hearts

Green Ink Poetry

One of Canada's most innovative and tenacious literary publishers, known for the originality of its authors, the beauty of its books and the quality of its productions.

Gaspereau Press

Codhill Press was founded in 1998 by David Appelbaum, then editor of Parabola Magazine. Its voice was conceived as lying at the intersection of spiritual, literary, and poetic thought.

Codhill Press

Gasher Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher founded by Whitney Koo in 2018. We are interested in fresh voices and innovative forms. Make everything useful. 

Gasher Press

swallow::tale is a Mad press by and for Mad people. A house for weird, antigenre, abandoned, and un(der)desirable stories, s::t publishes full, chapbook, and pamphlet-sized works that challenge sane sensibilities and uplift radical bodymind difference. 

swallow::tale press

Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit publisher for poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. 

Ugly Duckling Presse

We've published poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art from brilliant minds all around the globe.

Alien Buddha Press

Creator of hand-made, limited-edition chapbooks, story & poetry collections, and long-form fiction. We love debut authors of any genre and operate out of the Greater Philadelphia area. Proudly Pennsylvanian since 2015. 

Thirty West Publishing House

An American independent literary publisher based in Minneapolis, MN. Founded in 2018, 11:11 publishes innovative literature of all forms and varieties. We believe in the freedom of artistic expression, the realization of creative potential, and the transcendental power of stories.

11:11 Press

8th House Publishing publishes exemplary fiction, philosophy, esoterica and other earnest works.

8th House Publishing

A small, independent press interested in publishing voices from beyond the mainstream. We publish prose and poetry by underrepresented writers such as women, people of color, authors with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ authors.

Blair

An independent, volunteer-run small press based in North Carolina, was born in 2006. We publish chapbooks and occasionally full-length books. We select manuscripts through an open reading period. Manuscripts of poetry, fiction (particularly flash fiction), and creative nonfiction are welcome during this process.

Bull City Press

We are looking for strong, fresh voices & POV's in any genre. Fiction, nonfiction, & poetry. Especially looking for unique voices of female identifying, LGBTQ & POC from all over the world.

CLASH Books

A publisher of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism, specializing in the publication or republication of lesser-known, often avant-garde works.

Dalky Archive

A feminist small press publishing the works of women & nonbinary creators. We publish the works we believe in & believe in the people we publish. Our mission is to see more inclusive work on bookstore shelves & in the hands of young readers & in the homes of everyone we both know & don't.

Papeachu Press

A student-run trade press rooted in the Pacific Northwest dedicated to cultivating the next generation of publishing professionals. We prioritize literary equity and inclusion. Ooligan strives to publish culturally relevant titles from our local, marginalized voices in order to make literature accessible and redefine who has a place within its pages.

Ooligan 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.

Red Hen Press

An independent book publisher based in Northern Virginia. We publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from writers both emerging and established, and are especially drawn to titles that transcend genre, take risks in form and content, and push the boundaries of the narrative and the lyric.

Stillhouse Press

An independent literary press publishing three or more collections of poems annually.

Trio House Press

As a publisher, our main mission is, quite simply, to publish the best, most vital books we can find, books that might otherwise be overlooked in mainstream corporate publishing.

WTAW Press

An independent literary press with an online journal named Cutleaf. EastOver Press specializes in publishing collections of short stories, essays, and poetry in a format that honors both the writing and the writer.

EastOver Press

A Chicago-based novella and chapbook publisher. Since 2015, we have published boundary-pushing work with an emphasis on emerging Midwestern writers. 

Long Day Press

Small press operated from Lawrence, Kansas. 

Inside the Castle

Pink Plastic Press was founded in January 2020 to be the tinier imprint of Pink Plastic House a tiny journal. It publishes a tiny selection of books.

Pink Plastic Press

At Goatshed Press we aim to deliver exciting, unpretentious content, while discovering and uplifting a new generation of writers and artists.

Goatshed Press

We are a very small independent publisher. We publish books and zines. We also publish fiction, humor, essays, reviews, satire, and whatever else we feel like on this website.

Malarkey Books

Fulcrum Publishing is publishing an anthology on women’s reproductive health. Seeking essays about abortion, contraception, menstruation, infertility, miscarriage, IVF, perimenopause/menopause, pregnancy, fibroids, PCOS, endometriosis, and more.

Fulcrum Publishing

Deep Vellum is a nonprofit publishing house and literary arts organization with the mission to bring the world into conversation through literature.

Deep Vellum

Block Party (established 2021) is a magazine and chapbook press that publishes voice-driven poetry and prose and compelling visual art through both our digital magazine and hybrid chapbooks.

Block Party Press

Blackwater Press is an independent publisher and editorial consultancy with an international team of editors.

Blackwater Press



TCK Publishing started as a small independent publishing company in 2011. Ten years later, we continue to publish meaningful books that we hope will educate, inspire, and entertain old and young readers alike. 

TCK Publishing

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.

7.13 Books

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.

Autumn House Press

A micro-press specializing in books by queer and trans people. Damaged Goods Press accepts chapbook-length and full-length manuscripts.

Damaged Goods

Edinburgh’s Independent Publisher dedicated to promoting debut authors and new voices in literature.

Fledgling Press

An independent community-focused publisher of art and writing by queer, trans, and gender non-conforming creatives.

fifth wheel press

Founded in 2015 by Michelle Tudor and Peter Barnfather, the press runs alongside our other project: wildness, an online literary journal.

Platypus Press

An independent press based out of beautiful Baltimore, MD. We specialize in full-length publications and handmade, limited edition chapbooks by established as well as emerging writers.

Mason Jar Press

Publishing stories, scholarship, and histories from the Ozarks and Beyond

Moon City Press

An independent imprint that curates the most interesting authors and their freshest creativity. Stories that inspire you and help make your world a damned good place to be.

Plump Press

Independent publisher of long, short, and very short fiction.

Reflex Press

An independent press dedicated to the craft of writing. We publish exciting fiction and creative nonfiction of every genre, maintain an online literary journal, and run an annual internationally-recognized Awards Program.

SFWP

A small independent publishing house based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded by writer James Reich.

Stalking Horse Press

We at Tiny Fox Press came together wanting three things: talented writers, wonderful stories, and the entrance to Doc Noss’s lost gold mine. 

Tiny Fox Press

Tramp Press was launched by Lisa Coen and Sarah Davis-Goff in 2014 to find, nurture and publish exceptional literary talent. Tramp is based in Ireland and publishes internationally.

Tramp Press

A leading independent publisher of fiction and non-fiction, based in Los Angeles and founded in 2014. Our books represent a diverse list of voices—ones that challenge conventional perspectives while appealing to a broad general audience: exciting, radical, urgent.

Unnamed Press

Publishes individual authors chapbooks micro-chaps full-length books anthologies print and web projects interviews & reviews poetry prose hybrids collaborations art visual poetry theory experiments narrative original new work by international author & creators.

Ice Floe Press

A place for authors who are too imaginative for literary, and too literary for genre. We don’t want just a story, we want an exploration into ideas and topics that most of the literary establishment ignores.

55 Fathoms Publishing

Publishes anthologies of poetry and short stories, novellas, and novels of the weird, boundary-pushing, speculative fiction, dark fiction, dystopian, sci-fi, social commentary, and more.

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