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Best Literary Fiction Book Publishing Companies

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Lucid House Publishing

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Business, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Thriller & Suspense, and Young Adult

Location: Atlanta, US

Website: https://www.lucidhousepublishing.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Spellbound Under the Spanish Moss: A Southern Tale of Magic

Connor Judson Garrett and Kevin N. Garrett

Paradise Road: A Memoir

Marilyn Kriete

A Season in Lights

Gregory Erich Phillips

Panamerica

Panamerica is a home for the American voice in the genres of literary fiction and reportage. They publish books that highlight what is most distinctive about American writing, including the mix of high and low subject matter and voices; deadpan and absurdist humor; the tragedies and triumphs of ordinary people living alongside their neighbors; and the ability to invent and inhabit new worlds.

Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, and Nonfiction

Part of: County Highway

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://countyhighway.com/panamerica

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Small press

💥 Hit titles

University of Iowa Press

Genres: Fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

Location: Chicago, US

Website: https://uiowa.edu/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Digital or physical - View guidelines →

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University press

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University of Queensland Press

Genres: Children's, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Story, and Young Adult

Location: Sydney, AU

Website: https://www.uqp.com.au/

Accepts unagented submissions

No Manuscript entry - View guidelines →

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Small press

💥 Hit titles
Too Much Lip

Melissa Lucashenko

The Elephant

Peter Carnavas

Dropbear

Evelyn Araluen

Seagull Books

Genres: Women's Fiction, Literary Fiction, History, Politics, Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction

Location: Mumbai, IN

Website: https://www.seagullbooks.org/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals - View guidelines →

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Small press

💥 Hit titles
Rome, 1630

Yves Bonnefoy

Bedanabala

Mahasweta Devi

Love and Reparation

Danish Sheikh

Milkweed Editions

Genres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Diverse Literature, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

Location: Minneapolis, US

Website: https://milkweed.org/

Diversity: Diverse Literature

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Contests - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer

World of Wonders

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

The Milk Hours

John James

Bellevue Literary Press

Genres: Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Fiction, and Nonfiction

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://blpress.org/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries - View guidelines →

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Small press

💥 Hit titles
Tinkers

Paul Harding

The Wreckage of Eden

Norman Lock

Love Like Water, Love Like Fire

Mikhail Iossel

Juggernaut Publishing

Genres: Romance, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery & Crime, Health & Wellbeing, Self-Help, Fantasy, Biographies & Memoirs, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Short Story

Location: New Delhi, IN

Website: https://www.juggernaut.in

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals & queries - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
How India Sees the World

Shyam Saran

Sweet Dreams

Sunny Leone

The Burning Forest

Nandini Sundar

Oldcastle Books

Genres: True Crime, Mystery & Crime, Thriller & Suspense, Literary Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Travel, Fiction, and Nonfiction

Part of: Oldcastle Books Group > Oldcastle Books

Location: London, GB

Website: http://oldcastlebooks.co.uk/

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
After Agatha

Sally Cline

A Statue for Jacob

Peter Murphy

UFOs, Aliens, and the Battle for Truth

Neil Nixon

Interlude Press

Genres: Historical Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Crime, Thriller & Suspense, Young Adult, LGBTQ+, Diverse Literature, Fiction, and Short Story

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://interludepress.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries & book proposals - View guidelines →

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Small press

💥 Hit titles
Not Your Sidekick

C.B. Lee

The King and the Criminal

Charlotte Ashe

Black Dust

Lynn Charles

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