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This is a list of English-language small presses, small publishers, current or past, that have published (printed) works of fiction and nonfiction, poetry, short stories, essays, pamphlets, limited edition or collectible books and chapbooks, and other forms of literature.
In recent years, though, the small publishers have especially made gains as big publishers have backed away from publishing literary works. Small press publications have won some of the greatest literary prizes, including the Stella Prize, the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. There was a strong ...
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" [1] published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to submit up to six works they have featured. [2]
BOA Editions, Ltd. is an American independent, non-profit literary publishing company located in Rochester, New York, founded in 1976 by the late poet, editor and translator, A. Poulin, Jr., [1] and publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. The press's mission statement: "BOA Editions, Ltd., a not-for-profit publisher of poetry and other ...
Slough Press is an American small press publisher. They publish fiction , poetry , and essays. [ 1 ] The press published authors from a variety of backgrounds and currently focuses on poets with a Chicano background.
Red Hen Press was founded in 1994 by Mark E. Cull and Kate Gale.The press was reorganized as a non-profit 501(c)(3), getting its federal exemption in 2004.It established a Writing in the Schools program in 2003, [28] which has received funding from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Kinder Morgan Foundation, the City of Pasadena Cultural ...
They used the press as an avenue to publish their own poetry in small editions of finely made hardbound volumes. They printed, on high-quality paper, limited quantities of meticulously produced, hand-manufactured books. Publishing in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s put the company at the crossroads for many American writers who were living abroad.
The press achieved national attention when Copper Canyon poet W.S. Merwin won the 2005 National Book Award for Poetry [4] in the same year another Copper Canyon poet, Ted Kooser, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was appointed to a second year as United States Poet Laureate. [5]