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Best Short Story Book Publishing Companies

A comprehensive directory of the best publishers in 2023, vetted by the team at Reedsy. Showing 57 publishers.

Zubaan

Literary Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Politics, Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Story

Location - New Delhi, IN

Size - Small press

Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks

Submission format - Manuscript entries - Submit here

Website - https://zubaanbooks.com/shop/

☑️ Indie publisher

☑️ Accepts submissions

💥 Hit titles

Intimate City

Manjima Bhattacharjya

The Inheritance of Words

Mamang Dai

Name Place Animal Thing

Daribha Lyndem

Fledgling Press

Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Horror, Mystery & Crime, Romance, Women's Fiction, Action & Adventure, Thriller & Suspense, Fiction, Short Story, Children's

Location - Edinburgh, GB

Size - Small press

Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks

Submission format - Queries - Submit here

Website - https://www.fledglingpress.co.uk/

☑️ Indie publisher

☑️ Accepts submissions

💥 Hit titles

Whirligig

Andrew James Greig

When We Get To The Island

Alex Nye

Board

David C. Flanagan

Interlude Press

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

Location - New York City, US

Size - Small press

Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks

Diversity - Diverse Literature

Submission format - Manuscript entries & book proposals - Submit here

Website - https://interludepress.com/

☑️ Indie publisher

☑️ Accepts submissions

💥 Hit titles

Not Your Sidekick

C.B. Lee

The King and the Criminal

Charlotte Ashe

Black Dust

Lynn Charles

Persea Books

Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Politics, Feminism, LGBTQ+, Literary Fiction, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, Children's, Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Story, Poetry, Novella

Location - New York City, US

Size - Small press

Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks

Diversity - Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Submission format - Queries - Submit here

Website - https://www.perseabooks.com/

☑️ Indie publisher

☑️ Accepts submissions

💥 Hit titles

Town Crier

Sarah Matthes

Gateway to Paradise

Matthew Vollmer

Dispatch Poems

Cam Awkward-Rich

Wiseblood Books

Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction, Catholic, Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Short Story, Novella

Location - Raleigh, US

Size - Small press

Formats - Physical Books

Submission format - Manuscript entries - Submit here

Website - https://www.wisebloodbooks.com/

☑️ Indie publisher

☑️ Accepts submissions

💥 Hit titles

Jennifer the Damned

Karen Ullo

If Nobody Calls, I'm Not Home

Sam Hazo

The Unfinished Life of N.

Micah Cawber

Feldheim Publishers

Jewish Literature, Religion & Spirituality, Education & Reference, Cookbook, Health & Wellbeing, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Fiction, Children's, Short Story

Location - New York City, US

Size - Mid size

Formats - Physical Books

Submission format - Manuscript entries - Submit here

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

☑️ Indie publisher

☑️ Accepts submissions

💥 Hit titles

Kosher Laughs & Lessons for Life

Yehoshua Kurland

Crossing the Dateline

Mordechai Kuber

Yedidya

Daniel Yaakov Travis

Noemi Press

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

Location - Richmond, US

Size - Small press

Formats - Physical Books

Diversity - Diverse Literature, BIPOC, AfricanAmerican

Submission format - Contests - Submit here

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

☑️ Indie publisher

☑️ Accepts submissions

💥 Hit titles

Her 37th Year, an Index

Suzanne Scanlon

Salton Sea

George McCormick

The Lucky Ones Get To Be People

Rachel Haley Himmelheber

Bloomsbury Australia

Literary Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Education & Reference, Biographies & Memoirs, Horror, Action & Adventure, Self-Help, Historical Fiction, Sports & Outdoors, Mystery & Crime, History, Business, Travel, Women's Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Architecture, Art, Cookbook, Humor, Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's, Poetry, Short Story

Location - Sydney, AU

Size - Mid size

Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks, Audiobooks

Website - https://www.bloomsbury.com/au

☑️ Indie publisher

💥 Hit titles

As Far as You'll Take Me

Phil Stamper

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton

The Shape of Darkness

Laura Purcell

Tachyon Publications

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery & Crime, Biographies & Memoirs, Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Story, Children's, Novella

Location - San Francisco, US

Size - Small press

Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks

Website - https://tachyonpublications.com/

☑️ Indie publisher

💥 Hit titles

The Midnight Circus

Jane Yolen

The Emperor's Soul

Brandon Sanderson

The Freeze-Frame Revolution

Peter Watts

Aleph Book Company

Art, Photography, Business, History, Biographies & Memoirs, Religion & Spirituality, Travel, Literary Fiction, Self-Help, Sports & Outdoors, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Story

Location - New Delhi, IN

Size - Small press

Formats - Physical Books, Ebooks

Website - https://www.alephbookcompany.com/

☑️ Indie publisher

💥 Hit titles

Asia Reborn

Prasenjit K. Basu

The Wildings

Nilanjana Roy

The Book of Indian Ghosts

Riksundar Banerjee

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