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.
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House is the international home to more than 300 editorially and creatively independent publishing imprints. Our mission is to ignite a universal passion for reading by creating books for everyone.
Wendy's Subway
A reading room, writing space, and independent publisher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. We support emerging artists and writers in making experimental, urgent work and create alternative modes for learning and thinking in community.
Wild Hunt Books
Our mission is to foster strong and distinct literary voices and those who experiment with narrative, plot, and structure. We are also a home for authors dabbling in the darker genres and liminal spaces.
Faber
Independent publishing houses founded in 1929 with T. S. Eliot as the first Poetry Editor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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books for beach babes and lobotomized hunks
Foofaraw Press
Foofaraw Press—a press of surreal storytelling and worldly observations.
The University of North Texas Press
University of North Texas Press, founded 1987, publishing 20–25 titles/year in Texas history, military history, folklore, and multicultural topics. Annual Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.
Fonograf Editions
Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit press and literary record label. Established 2016.
Moonstone Press
Philadelphia press offshoot of Moonstone Arts.