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.
Red Rook Press
Red Rook Press is a student-run literary press out of the University of Alabama. We publish undergrad and grad student fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from any institution.
Trio House Press
Trio House Press publishes literary poetry and creative nonfiction that moves, inspires, and encourages connection, empathy, and understanding.
Verso
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.
Feminist Press
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.
Moonstone Press
Philadelphia press offshoot of Moonstone Arts.
Stillhouse Press
Stillhouse Press publishes surprising, gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that can’t or doesn’t want to find a home in big publishing. We are drawn to the strange, the unconventional, the transcendent, the risky. We’re looking for work that pushes boundaries.
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.
Sundress Publications
A 501(c)(3) non-profit literary press collective founded in 2000, Sundress Publications is entirely volunteer-run, publishes chapbooks and full-length works in both print and digital formats, and hosts a variety of online journals.
Gunpowder Press
As each new title appears, Gunpowder Press remains small but vibrant, fully committed to every book we publish.
Nightboat Books
An independent book publisher and non-profit based in Brooklyn
International Human Rights Art Movement Press Literary Magazine
IHRAM Press serves as a bridge for up-and-coming authors from over 90 countries, providing a global stage for work that centers on social justice, human rights, and the indomitable human spirit.
Perugia Press
Florence, MA nonprofit press founded 1997, publishing one poetry collection per year by a woman or gender-expansive poet. Annual Perugia Press Prize open to poets with no more than one prior full-length book.
Yale University Press
Prestigious university press founded 1908 at Yale. Best known for the Yale Series of Younger Poets — America's longest-running poetry prize ($1,000 + publication) for debut US poets, open Oct 1–Nov 15.
Tainted Glass Press
Independent publisher of literary horror, gothic, slipstream, and speculative fiction. Stories are questions. Answers are optional.
Cinnamon Press
Wales-based independent publisher of poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction with a focus on new and emerging writers. Runs several annual competitions.
Indirect Books
Indirect Books is a publisher of risk-adept literature in the revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We seek to champion fearless books that operate beyond marketplace convention, celebrating the art and craft of literature as a form.
Four Way Books
Four Way Books is dedicated to producing and promoting excellent literary publications and to creating opportunities for writers of merit.
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.
Finishing Line Press
Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher based in Georgetown, Kentucky, USA.