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Best Short Story Book Publishing Companies

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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 →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Not Your Sidekick

C.B. Lee

The King and the Criminal

Charlotte Ashe

Black Dust

Lynn Charles

Grimbold Books

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Novella, and Short Story

Location: London, GB

Website: https://www.grimboldbooks.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Fight Like a Girl

Roz Clark & Joanne Hall

Strange Creation

Frances Kay

Autonomy

Jude Houghton

Tartarus Press

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, and Short Story

Location: London, GB

Website: http://www.tartaruspress.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Queries & book proposals - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

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The Loney

Andrew Michael Hurley

Mercy and Other Stories

Rebecca Lloyd

The Tallow-Wife

Angela Slatter

Noemi Press

Genres: Literary Fiction, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, African-American, Fiction, Poetry, and Short Story

Location: Richmond, US

Website: http://www.noemipress.org/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC, AfricanAmerican

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Contests - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Her 37th Year, an Index

Suzanne Scanlon

Salton Sea

George McCormick

The Lucky Ones Get To Be People

Rachel Haley Himmelheber

RedBone Press

Genres: African-American, LGBTQ+, Literary Fiction, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, Fiction, Poetry, Short Story, and Nonfiction

Location: New Orleans, US

Website: https://www.redbonepress.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Yabo

Alexis De Veaux

Does Your Mama Know?

Lisa C. Moore

Speaking in Whispers

Kathleen E. Morris

HarperCollins India

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Cookbook, Religion & Spirituality, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Crime, Business, Self-Help, Picture Book, Nonfiction, Fiction, Short Story, and Novella

Location: New Delhi, IN

Website: https://harpercollins.co.in/

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Small press

💥 Hit titles
The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

A Mirror Made of Rain

Naheed Phiroze Patel

Powerful

Nirupama Subramanian

Press 53

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Short Story

Location: Raleigh, US

Website: https://www.press53.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Contests - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Anything That Happens

Cheryl Wilder

I Will Shout Your Name

John Matthew Fox

The Origin of Doubt

Nathan Alling Long

Feldheim Publishers

Genres: Jewish Literature, Religion & Spirituality, Education & Reference, Cookbook, Health & Wellbeing, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Fiction, and Short Story

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://www.feldheim.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Kosher Laughs & Lessons for Life

Yehoshua Kurland

Crossing the Dateline

Mordechai Kuber

Yedidya

Daniel Yaakov Travis

Influx Press

Genres: Narrative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Short Story

Location: London, GB

Website: https://www.influxpress.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Self Portrait in Green

Marie NDiaye

Cockfight

María Fernanda Ampuero

Damned If I Do

Percival Everett

Speaking Tiger

Genres: Romance, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery & Crime, Business, Politics, Travel, Religion & Spirituality, Fantasy, Biographies & Memoirs, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Nonfiction, Novella, Short Story, and Poetry

Location: New Delhi, IN

Website: https://www.speakingtigerbooks.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Queries - View guidelines →

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Small press

💥 Hit titles
Battlefield

Vishram Bedekar

A Village Dies

Ivan Arthur

Murder in Shimla

Bulbul Sharma

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