September 29, 2025
All of the presses on this list meet all of our guiding principles, but some of them have such a specific focus that we cannot justify writing a full review and sending it to our full list of subscribers. Some of them we have full reviews on. There is no particular organization to this list….
September 25, 2025
Questionable Publishing Contracts; $3,000 Writing Grants; 8 Submissions Calls. This monthly column is published on the fourth Thursday of every month, and is an opportunity for me to share information that doesn’t fit anywhere else in our publication. This includes a wide range of opportunities for writers, news and information, and subscriber’s recent success stories….
Flash Frog is an online journal of flash fiction under 1,000 words: “We like our stories like we like our dart frogs: small, brightly colored, and deadly to the touch.” Stories published in Flash Frog have gone on to be featured in anthologies like Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50, Best Small Fictions, and Best of…
By Sabyasachi Roy Burnout doesn’t knock. It just slips in, in a quiet manner, like the obedient nobody in a corporate setup. But somewhere down the line you start noticing. In a good, or bad, or in a neutral manner. Burnout starts like that, maybe with a feeling when you think it’s just a phase…
Authors Publish was founded in the United States, but has since moved to Canada. Our subscribers are based all over the world, with a majority based in the United States. A lot of the journals and publishers we cover are still based in the United States for two reasons. Some of the journals on this…
As some of our readers know, Authors Publish has been based in Canada for the last eight years. Every year on September 30th, Canada honors National Truth and Reconciliation Day as a federal holiday. The day honors the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities. For those who do not know, Indigenous…
September 24, 2025
Querencia Press is a small press that describes themselves by saying “Querencia Press is an independent publisher from the Chicago-land area amplifying marginalized voices & creating a safe space for writers and artists to share their stories. We are especially interested in work that has been looked over in the past and challenges conventional genre…
Harlequin Special Edition is an imprint of Harlequin, which is an imprint of Harper Collins. We have also reviewed a number of their other imprints previously, including Afterglow Books, Carina Press, Mills & Boon, Love Inspired & Love Inspired Suspense, Harlequin Historical, Harlequin Heartwarming, Harlequin Medical Romance, and Harlequin Intrigue. All of the different imprints…
Lund Humphries’ tagline is “Publishers on Art, Architecture, and Design since 1939”. It is easy to get a feel for what they publish here. They are an established and respected independent publisher. Their books are beautiful and widely distributed. They publish books by Visual Arts scholars, professionals, students and art enthusiasts. It’s easy to see…
Castle Books is an imprint of the Quarto Publishing Group. While you can still submit to the publishing group as a whole, their submission guidelines encourages authors to determine which imprint is the best fit for them, and to include that information as part of the submission process. Castle Books says “our mission is to…
September 22, 2025
We generally only review presses that accept work without geographic limitations on who can submit, but this list includes many publishers who do have geographic requirements. We have never fully reviewed most of these presses because of their geographic limitations, but they are still good presses. Most of the presses on this list accept work…
September 18, 2025
This list of publishers meet our guiding principles, but are only open to free submissions from historically underrepresented writers or focus on publishing content produced by historically underrepresented writers. Some of these publications are open to a wide range of writers including writers of color, gender non-conforming and LGBTQ+ writers, and those living with disabilities….
PINYON is a print journal of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, published by Colorado Mesa University. PINYON showcases writing by both emerging and established authors, and the journal is curated by both faculty and students at the university. PINYON was founded in 1994. They publish one print edition each year in the spring, and you can…
By Ratika Deshpande It’s an infallible rule that the more you read, the better you’re able to write (provided, of course, that you’re also doing a lot of writing). For about two years now, I’ve been reading science fiction and fantasy short stories and flash fiction to curate lists of recommendations for Reactor magazine. After…
September 15, 2025
These magazines and anthologies publish horror fiction of various stripes: gothic horror, folk horror, monster stories, vampires, body horror, gore, sci-fi horror, dark fantasy, eerie stories, slasher stories, psychological horror, ghost stories, surrealist and cosmic horror, horror-comedy, surreal, macabre, and more. Some calls are themed. Some outlets pay writers. Many also publish other genres, like…