Poets & Writers

  • 2River

    2River prefers poems with these qualities: image, subtlety, and point of view; a surface of worldly exactitude, as well as a depth of semantic ambiguity; and a voice that...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

  • 3 Mile Harbor Press

    3 Mile Harbor Press is committed to publishing the best diverse work by new and established poets and is particularly interested in finding LGBQT+, BIPOC, feminist, and...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

  • 3: A Taos Press

    3: A Taos Press is a multicultural and ethically voiced independent press. Their poetry books always have a tight theme in each of them. They do not publish collected works of...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

  • 7.13 Books

    Please read the submission guidelines on the website carefully before submitting.

    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

  • 42 Miles Press

    42 Miles Press publishes full-length books of poetry, including the winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize. They’re in Indiana. They like strong images and the music of...

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    Reading Period: Feb 1 to Jun 15

  • 96th of October Editions

    96th of October Editions concentrates on literary science fiction and fantasy writing and poetry. It is particularly interested in LGBT voices and writing by women. All writing...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

  • 128 LIT

    Reading Period: Oct 1 to Jan 31

  • Agate Publishing

    Under their Bolden imprint, Agate Publishing publishes fiction, nonfiction, and memoirs by Black American authors. Under their Midway imprint, they publish nonfiction with a...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

  • Airlie Press

    Airlie Press is a nonprofit publisher run by writers, dedicated to cultivating and sustaining fine contemporary poetry and to promoting poets from the Pacific Northwest and...

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    Reading Period: Jul 1 to Jul 31, Jan 1 to Mar 31

  • Akashic Books

    Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing literary fiction, crime fiction, music/pop culture books, and political nonfiction by authors who...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

    Temporarily Closed to Submissions

  • akinoga press

    akinoga press is a Baltimore-based micro press that specialzes in hand-bound chapbooks of a spacious/minimalist/austere flavor, though on the lookout for anything small, quiet...

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    Reading Period: Apr 1 to Apr 30

    Temporarily Closed to Submissions

  • Alabaster Leaves Publishing

    Alabaster Leaves Publishing is for emerging poets. There are no style requirements. Manuscripts are accepted year-round.

    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

  • Alice James Books

    AJB is a leading independent press devoted to discovering and publishing exceptional poetry by emerging and established writers. The press is an innovator in the field,...

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    Reading Period: Mar 1 to Oct 13

  • Another New Calligraphy

    Another New Calligraphy has enjoyed the quiet thrill of making and sharing since 2009. ANC guides writers and musicians in the realization of their work via the production of...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

  • Antenna Press

    Aligning with Antenna’s mission, Antenna Press is interested in publishing ideas that, and are at the intersection of gender and identity, the environment, equity, renewable...

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    Reading Period: May 1 to Jun 30

    Temporarily Closed to Submissions

  • Anvil Press Publishers, Inc.

    Anvil Press is a Vancouver literary press founded in 1991. Now in its twenty-fifth year of publishing, Anvil has firmly established itself as a publisher of progressive,...

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    Reading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30, Oct 1 to Oct 31

    Temporarily Closed to Submissions

  • Apogee Press

    Apogee Press publishes the work of innovative and experimental poets. Culturally and formally diverse, their poets share an original use of language.

    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

    Temporarily Closed to Submissions

  • Apollo Publishers

    Apollo Publishers publishes narrative and illustrated nonfiction books on topics they deem timely and topical. Books must have broad, trade appeal.

    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

  • Apprentice House Press

    Apprentice House is the nation’s first entirely student-managed book publisher. Students at Loyola University Maryland are responsible for every aspect of the publishing...

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    Reading Period: Oct 1 to Feb 1

  • April Gloaming Publishing

    April Gloaming Publishing is a nonprofit Nashville-based independent press that aims to capture and better understand the Southern soul, Southern writing, and the Southern...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

  • Aquarius Press

    Aquarius Press develops, publishes and promotes talented writers typically underrepresented in the literary marketplace. The Willow Books imprint specializes in the works of...

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    Reading Period: Apr 1 to Jul 31, Sep 1 to Dec 15

  • Arte Público Press

    Arte Público Press is a nonprofit literary publisher based at the University of Houston. It is mission driven, publishing US Hispanic literature, both contemporary and...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

  • Arteidolia Press

    Arteidolia Press is looking for authors who push the gamut of possibilities, for writing that is diverse and inventive, adventuresome and experimental.

    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

  • Ashland Creek Press

    Ashland Creek Press is a small, independent publisher of books for a better planet. Its mission is to publish a range of books that foster an appreciation for worlds outside...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31

    Temporarily Closed to Submissions

  • Ashland Poetry Press

    The mission of the Ashland Poetry Press is to publish poets at any stages of their careers (from poets on their first books to established and distinguished poets) through our...

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    Reading Period: Jan 1 to May 1, Sep 1 to Nov 1

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