The Washington Writers’ Publishing House is currently open for submissions to their 50th anniversary anthology, AMERICA’S FUTURE. The editors seek poetry and prose...
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Whether you are pursuing the publication of your first book or your fifth, use the Small Presses database to find contact information, submission guidelines, and representative authors—everything you need to determine which publishers match your vision for your writing and your writing life. Use the filters below to find presses with reading periods that are open now or opening soon (within the next thirty days), accept unsolicited submissions, and match all of your criteria for the perfect publisher of your work.
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Wave Books is an independent poetry press based in Seattle, Washington, dedicated to publishing poetry and books by poets.
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Charlie Wright, Publisher...Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Political, Prose Poetry, Translation, Visual Poetry -
MMWS is a literary book series from Wayne State University Press, a distinctive publisher of exceptional books and journals based in and shaped by the city of Detroit. This...
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Waywiser publishes literary works by new and established authors, and is also interested in restoring the reputations of writers overlooked or suffering undue neglect.
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Wet Cement Press is a small press based in Berkeley, California, with editors in Reno, Nevada, and Asheville, North Carolina. The press typically publishes three to five books...
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What Books Press was founded in 2009 to create an outlet for groundbreaking fiction, poetry, and translation. The editors are strongly committed to new, innovative...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 15Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, TranslationSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Magical Realism, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Translation -
Whiskey Tit attempts to restore degradation and degeneracy to the literary arts. They’re pretty sure they are succeeding here. This is usually because the works don’t fit...
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Whittle Micro-Press places value in micro-chapbooks that are inarguably cohesive, with pieces that build upon or inform one another in a way that is thematically evident and...
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Wild Ember Press has recently moved toward the collective sense of creating “auto fiction,” that sweet emergent form of memoir. Within those stories, they are looking for...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Historical, Prose Poetry, Translation -
Wildhouse Publications exists to enliven the spiritual quests of people outside or on the margins of established religious and spiritual traditions through books that are...
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Willow Springs Books is a literary press housed in Eastern Washington University’s Inland Northwest Center for Writers in Spokane. Under the direction of poet Christopher...
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Winter Goose Publishing, LLC, is a press founded in 2011. It is a royalty-paying trade publisher that has focused on books the editors feel are strong in a unique style,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Commercial Fiction, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Wiseblood Books fosters works of fiction, poetry, and philosophy that render truths with what Flannery O’Connor called an unyielding “realism of distances.” Such works find...
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Wising Up Press is a press with a clear social mission, fostering an appreciation of the rewards and challenges of pluralism at every level in society, and, most importantly,...
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Wolfson Press publishes books in the arts and humanities, including literary titles. Through our poetry and prose book contests, we publish national and international writers....
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Wordrunner eChapbooks publishes two mini collections of prose in August and December, each by one author, both online and in e-book format, and an annual themed anthology of...
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Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
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WTAW Press is an independent, nonprofit literary press devoted to discovering and publishing enduring literary works. WTAW publishes a carefully curated list of titles across a...
Read moreReading Period: Dec 1 to Dec 31, Sep 30 to Dec 31Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
