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Showing 37 indie publishers that match your search.
Publisher of: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Short Fiction
Founded in 2014, this LA-based publisher is relatively young. But it’s already assembled a formidable stable of talent: rising star Esmé Weijun Wang shares shelf space with Booker, Pulitzer, and Philip K Dick Prize winners. Many of their titles are multicultural family dramas, full of complex relationships and pitch-perfect characterization. However, their catalogue ranges beyond literary fiction to embrace highbrow speculative fiction, collections of journalism, and even self-help books.
🔥 Hit title: The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang
⭐️ Best known for: Literary Fiction
💌 Accepts unagented submissions? Yes, in the form of Queries. View guidelines →
Publisher of: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Short Fiction
Tin House’s legendary literary magazine may have shuttered its doors 2019, but their book publishing program is still going strong. Originally launched as an Bloomsbury imprint, Tin House Books spun off into an indie publisher in 2005. They release around 12 books a year often from first-time authors. Tin House Books publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and they have a penchant for lush, character-driven contemporary novels, playful essay collections, and memoirs that delve into complex relationships with uncompromising insight.
🔥 Hit title: Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl by Jeannie Vanasco
⭐️ Best known for: Essay Collections, Literary Fiction, Memoirs
💌 Accepts unagented submissions? No
Publisher of: Fiction and Short Fiction
This Manhattan-based press releases 90 books a year, making it relatively big for an indie publisher. It’s especially well-known among mystery connoisseurs for its Soho Crime imprint, which specializes in top-notch thrillers with a strong sense of place, a bit like traditional detective fiction crossed with travelogue. Whether it takes place in Denmark or Thailand, a Soho Crime title will set the scene so vividly you’ll feel you’re walking alongside the detective down those minutely rendered streets. Soho also publishes YA through Soho Teen and literary fiction through Soho Press proper.
🔥 Hit title: The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura and Satoko Izumo (translator)
⭐️ Best known for: Literary Fiction, Mysteries, YA
💌 Accepts unagented submissions? Yes, in the form of Full Manuscripts. View guidelines →
Publisher of: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
This storied Canadian publisher has been running out of Toronto since 1967. In that time, it’s grown from a one-man operation to a North American indie powerhouse, publishing prominent authors like Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje. As it makes headway into its sixth decade of operation, House of Anansi remains as committed as ever to promoting Canadian literature, including French-Canadian books in translation, and work by First Nations authors.
🔥 Hit title: How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti
⭐️ Best known for: Memoirs, Literary Fiction
💌 Accepts unagented submissions? Yes, in the form of Book Proposals, Full Manuscripts. View guidelines →
Publisher of: Fiction and Nonfiction
EnvelopeBooks is a new independent publishing house founded in the summer of 2020. An offshoot of Booklaunch, a quarterly books and publishing freesheet that makes its way to 50,000 homes per issue, the EnvelopeBooks imprint is dedicated to working with authors to produce high-quality books.
💌 Accepts unagented submissions? Yes, in the form of Full Manuscripts. View guidelines →
Publisher of: Poetry and Short Fiction
Founded in 1976, BOA Editions focuses on poetry. Though they publish fewer than 20 books a year, their editors are discerning enough to sniff out plenty of prizewinners. BOA’s roster includes decorated — and phenomenally popular — poets like National Book Award finalist Lucille Clifton and Naomi Shihab Nye, the first Arab American to be named the Young People’s Poet Laureate. But BOA also looks beyond verse, running several contests for short fiction writers, as well as poets seeking publication.
🔥 Hit title: Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
⭐️ Best known for: Poetry Collections
💌 Accepts unagented submissions? Yes, in the form of Contest Entries. View guidelines →
Publisher of: Nonfiction, Fiction, Short Fiction, and Poetry
Founded in 1972, Coffee House Press has grown from tiny letterpress to internationally renowned nonprofit. They’ve managed to stay close to their roots, putting out the occasional small-batch, letterpress chapbooks, complete with hand-sewn spines. But their backlist of more traditional volumes is substantial and growing. These days, Coffee House best known for their boundary-pushing, genre-crossing novels and essay collections — many of which have won prestigious nominations, from the Pulitzer to the National Book Award.
🔥 Hit title: I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
⭐️ Best known for: Literary Fiction, Memoir, Poetry Collections
💌 Accepts unagented submissions? Yes, in the form of Full Manuscripts. View guidelines →
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