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Showing 33 indie publishers that match your search.
Publisher of: Nonfiction
Press 53 titles are set apart by their fearlessly anti-commercial tenor. This indie publisher specializes in publishing poets and short story writers — in other words, the kind of authors who have trouble landing book deals at more mainstream presses. Their backlist shows an interest in experimentation: look for innovative forms like flash fiction, prose poetry, and linked short stories that come together to form a novel. Based in North Carolina, Press 53 looks for great writing by authors from all over the US.
🔥 Hit title: What the Zhang Boys Know by Clifford Garstang
⭐️ Best known for: Literary Fiction
💌 Accepts unagented submissions? Yes, in the form of Contest Entries. View guidelines →
Publisher of: Nonfiction
Founded in 2002, Noemi Press operates out of Blacksburg, Virginia, where it publishes both new and established writers — especially women, queer people, and people of color. Their titles are often described as part something, part something else, and you can fill in the blanks to build all kinds of fascinating, extremely high-brow combos: say “autofiction” and “sequential critical engagement”, or “family gothic” and “queer historiography”. Even books that don’t have this genre mashup quality feel pieced together, in the best way, mixing forms and textures to produce writing that feels wholly new.
🔥 Hit title: Her 37th Year, An Index by Suzanne Scanlon
⭐️ Best known for: Literary Fiction, Memoir
💌 Accepts unagented submissions? Yes, in the form of Contest Entries. View guidelines →
Publisher of: Nonfiction
Brooklyn-based Akashic Books was founded by the post-hardcore bassist Johnny Temple in 1997. It still operates out of the borough’s trendy Old American Can Factory, putting out galleys in the same industrial complex where electronica acts jam and indie painters hang their canvases. But in the last decade, they’ve started selling books all over the country. Dedicated to “reverse-gentrification of the literary world,” they highlight marginalized and anti-establishment authors, giving them an outlet for work considered too niche (or too incendiary) for corporate publishing.
🔥 Hit title: A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes
⭐️ Best known for: Mysteries, Literary Fiction, Crime Fiction
💌 Accepts unagented submissions? Yes. View guidelines →
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