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Aalst
Magazine
Aalst is a new small press magazine which takes a sideways look
at life. It offers exposure (but no money as yet) to new writers,
poets and artists. Particularly welcome are those with an off-beat
sense of humour and those who take a cynical but not jaundiced
view of life.
Albedo
One
Albedo One is the most prominent Irish magazine of speculative
fiction, appearing ca. 4 times a year, having published fiction
by authors like Norman Spinrad, Jeff Vandermeer, Liz Williams,
Esther M. Friesner and Ian McDonald. Guidelines
for submission.
Apogee
Press
Apogee Press publishes the work of innovative and experimental
poets. Culturally and formally diverse, our poets share an original
use of language.
ARRAS
New media poetry and poetics.
The
Association of Little Presses
With about 200 members, it is Britain's largest grouping of small
presses and little magazines.
ATLAS
PRESS
"100 years of the anti-tradition." Atlas Press specialises
in extremist and avant-garde prose writing from the 1890s to the
present day. They are the largest publisher in English of books
on Surrealism and have an extensive list relating to Dada, Expressionism,
the Oulipo, the College of Pataphysics, among others.
AurA
Press
Avec
Books
Welcome to the web site for Avec Books. Our focus is innovative
contemporary writing. The work we publish has its roots in a variety
of sources, including Dada, Surrealism, the work of Gertrude Stein,
Virginia Woolf, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Lorine Niedecker,
Laura Riding, Robert Duncan and the Situationists.
Barque
Press
Publishing innovative and experimental contemporary poetry from
the UK and around the world.
BeautifulSwimmer
Press
The adage of 'quality before quantity' holds sway at this press.
Fine editions of avant-garde contemporary poetry.
The
Big Little Poem Series
Book
Works
Commissioning & publishing organisation for artists' books
and text-based projects.
The
Bunting Centre
The Basil Bunting Poetry Centre fosters study and research on
Northumbrian poet Basil Bunting, and on poets associated with
him through the region, or the modernist/post modernist tradition.
The Centre also continues to promote the practice of "live" poetry
reading which Bunting championed, and gives support to the development
of the Basil Bunting Poetry Archive in the University Library.
Carriage
House Review
A biannual literary magazine dedicated to dark fiction.
Chain
Since 1993, Chain has published a yearly issue of writing and
art gathered loosely around a topic. The topic serves as an editorial
limit and changes the question asked of each piece submitted from
"is this a great piece of art" to "does this piece
of art say something about the topic that is not already known."
This makes Chain a little rougher around the edges, a little less
aesthetically predictable. Chain welcomes submissions from readers.
Coffee
House Press
Coffee House Press is an award-winning, nonprofit literary publisher.
We produce books that present the dreams and ambitions of people
who have been underrepresented in published literature, books
that shape our national consciousness while strengthening a larger
sense of community.
Dalkey
Archive Press
Since 1984, Dalkey Archive Press has made available to readers
the finest works of world literature from the past 100 years.
The intention of the Press is to serve as a permanent home for
these works, so that they will continue to be read by present
and future generations.
Dark
Tales
Dark Tales magazine (http://www.darktales.co.uk ), a quarterly
publication for sci-fi, horror and speculative fiction, which
has a regular competition with cash prizes and is now also open
to general submissions. Dark Tales has been going for twelve months
and has been described by online horror website The Harrow as
"A Prescription of Fear for the Midnight Reader..."
Added June 2004
Dragonheart
Press
Dragonheart Press is an independent publishing house dedicated
to promoting powerful new poetry, art and music, primarily via
Internet technologies. Types of work published are poetry, mallart
and music. Dragonheart Press uses the WWW as its primary delivery
media. Ongoing publications include the occasional poetry journal
at the Planet Dada Studios
art website. Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome. Publication
only is offered as payment.
duration
press
Duration press is dedicated to the promotion of contemporary international
poetry and poetics. Their links
page also has an extensive list of many interesting presses and
publications [some of whom they host].
Educational
Heretics Press
Publishes books that . question the dogmas of education in general,
and schooling in particular. Work published on radical education,
by commission, from network of supporters only. A catalogue of
published work is available.
Education
Now Publishing Co-operative
Publishes books and quarterly . News and Reviews. Devoted to the
idea of developing a flexible, humane and personalised educational
system. Work published on radical education, by commission, from
network of supporters only. A catalogue of published work is available.
Electronic
Poetry Center
This is a great resource for anyone interested in small
presses and writing on the web.
Exact
Change
Exact Change publishes books of experimental literature with an
emphasis on Surrealism, Dada, Pataphysics, and other nineteenth
and twentieth century avant-garde art movements.
Fireweed
Poetry of Western Oregon is one of Oregon's longest running literary
magazines. Publishes poetry and poetry reviews. Their email address
is fireweedmag@attbi.com.
Please no attachments; submit copy in body of email only. Submissions
on any subject are accepted year-round. Fireweed focuses exclusively
on writers who live in Oregon or have strong ties to the state.
firstwriter
Not a small press but a useful small press resource, firstwriter.com
is a free writers' resource and small press site, including an
extensive small press directory, and lists of writing competitions
and literary agents. They also have an online store and an online
magazine now accepting submissions of fiction and poetry over
the Internet.
Granary
Books
Granary Books is a publisher of artists' books, poetry and the
documentation thereof. They also deal in literary and art libraries
and archives of the sixties and seventies.
Heart
of Albion Press
Heart of Albion Press was founded in 1990 to publish booklets
on Leicestershire and Rutland local history. The success of these
initial publications quickly led to a widening range of titles
that explored areas usually ignored by mainstream publishing.
So far over 50 books, booklets and disc-based publications have
appeared. Heart of Albion Press continues to specialise in short
run publishing of books and booklets although future projects
will mostly involve electronic publishing on disc, CD-ROM or via
WWW.
Instress
Press
Instress Press, publisher of new poetry, specializing in chapbooks.
Inscape magazine.
Juxta
An electronic journal of poetry
Kabet
Press
Kabet Press publish a series of adaptations of Shakespeare (Shakespeare
in modern English).
Kelsey
St. Press
Kelsey St. Press has been publishing innovative writing by women
since 1974.
Little
Magazines
This site contains information about little magazines published
in the United Kingdom.
Lollipop
An online listing of current UK small presses, giving contact
details for each publisher.
Manchester
University Press
Manchester University Press was founded in 1903, primarily as
an outlet to publish academic research being carried out within
the Victoria University of Manchester. Manchester University Press
is the third largest University Press in the U.K and publishes
textbooks for use by academics teaching in higher education, students
and the interested general reader. Currently publishing 120 new
titles a year, 6 journals and around 50 reprints from its extensive
backlist, the Press sells more than 100,000 books each year. The
press publishes in six main areas: History, Art History,
Politics, Economics, Literature and Cultural Studies, and Design,
Film and Media.
Meow
Press
In six and a half years of publishing (editing, designing,
printing, assembling and trimming) "in the house," the
press has produced more than sixty chapbooks of poetry and prose
totaling nearly 18,000 copies. The books are simply designed with
economically feasible production values rooted in appropriate
and available technologies.
Missing
Spoke Press
Printing what is too naked or true for Wall Street.
New
Hope International
New Hope International established 1980, though with an earlier
antecedent, publishes a variety of chapbooks, mostly of poetry.
Unsolicited submissions of chapbooks are not encouraged but submissions
of poetry (all genres) to its printed magazine Aabye (formally
NHI Writing) welcome. Its extensive review section, covering books,
mags, audio, software and videos of literary and social interest
is now published only on the Internet.
O
Books
O Books publishes innovative works of contemporary poetry as well
as essays and plays by poets.
Our
World Poetry
"Striving to stimulate people's social, religious, economic,
and political conscience through poetry since its inception in
1999." The objective of Our World Poetry is to provide
young poets with a market to display quality poetry, which encourages
the development of the social conscience. Our World Poetry
is not an advocate of any definite movement, but advocates for
the overall advancement of people. Through poetry, Our World Poetry
will help express the concerns and ideas about society from young
poets to the rest of the world.
Papillon
Papillon is Derby's newest and tiniest magazine, publishing new
local writers. It was started by three writers - Andrew Wilson,
Jerry Hope and Val Toolin - who wanted to solve the "chicken and
egg" problem of writers not getting published without having been
published already. Now in its second edition (still at 50p) Papillon
has a strong following from within Derby and is looking for support
from further afield.
Park
Publications
We run several competitions every year for fiction and poetry.
We also publish two small press magazines, SCRIBBLE, a short story
mag, and COUNTRYSIDE TALES, which features articles, stories and
poetry about the countryside. David Howarth, Editor, at parkpub14@hotmail.com
Paupers'
Press
Paupers' Press publish essays of literary criticism: 10,000-15,000
words in length. Occasionally we stray from these criteria into
the realms of philosophy or biography and produce full-length
books. But only to accommodate an exceptional manuscript. The
press publishes up to 6 new titles a year.
Poetry
Monthly
This is a monthly poetry magazine for new and established poets
world-wide. The magazine features poetry and articles. Unsolicited
manuscripts will be considered for publication. Payment: one copy
of the issue in which the author's work appears.
Potes
& Poets Press
Small press founded in 1980, issuing limited editions of contemporary
language and experimental poetry.
Psychopoetica
A magazine of psychologically-based poetry.
Pulp
Faction
Underground
and contemporary fiction from the UK.
Raddle
Moon
The magazine exists to make space for risky, brilliant work, especially
by women writers. We publish: poetry & poetics; image/text
and photo-based work; long works and series; collaborative and
interdisciplinary works; translation and experimental approaches
to translation: theory and practice; investigations of "border
areas" and hybridity in critical writing, especially women's
critical writing; readings/reviews of current books and periodicals;
work from Quebec, and work in French; colloquia on current topics;
guest editorships in special topics or areas.
Reality
Street Editions
British publisher interested in promoting the works of recognizable
UK poets.
Salmon
Publishing Ltd
Salmon Publishing LTD was established in 1982 with the publication
of The Salmon, a journal of poetry and prose. In 1985,
Salmon began to publish books and has since produced over 100
volumes; mainly poetry. It has the most representative list of
women poets in Ireland. Salmon now produces 6 to 7 books per year.
Editor: Jessie Lendennie.
The
Segue Foundation
As publisher of Roof Books and Segue Books, Segue now has over
70 titles of contemporary poetry and criticism in print. In the
late 1970s/early 80s, Segue published the poetry journal Roof
and distributed the critical journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, two of the
early seminal publications of the `language' poetry movement.
Small
Press Distribution
Small Press Distribution is a non-profit organization distributing
over 500 smaller, independent literary presses.
Stride
Stride Publications
Stride books inhabit the divide between the avant-garde and the
traditional, the secular and the sacred, the mysterious and the
everyday, the modern and the postmodern. They are as likely to
discuss free jazz, techno music or drug culture as marvel at the
effect of sunlight on water, question ideas of belief or explore
the intricacies of language and the visual arts; as likely to
use collage and cut-up as to reinvent the sonnet; more likely
to challenge and excite than send you to sleep.
With its commitment to innovative poetry and fiction by known
and unknown authors, a wide-ranging anthology series, Conversation
Pieces featuring criticism and interviews, and a series of Stride
Research Documents, it's no wonder the Times Literary Supplement
called Stride 'one of the most impressive small presses' or that
The South said Stride is 'the most prolific and adventurous small
press in Britain'.
Talisman
House Publishers
Contemporary poetry and poetics.
United
Artists Books
United Artists Books (formerly Angel Hair Books) was founded in
1967. It is one of the oldest independent publishing companies
in the United States that focuses primarily on publishing books
of poetry.
Verse
Press
Verse Press is international in scope and eclectic in approach.
Verse Press' mission is to support excellence and innovation in
poetry wherever those qualities can be found.
Verso
Books
Verso (meaning in printers' parlance 'the lefthand page') was
founded in 1970 by the London-based New Left Review. The company
developed an early reputation as a translator of classic works
of European literature and politics. 'Books with a critical edge'.
WellSweep
WellSweep publishes literary translation from Chinese, and makes
occasional innovative forays into the human rights, history, fantasy
and popular culture of China. The press was founded in 1988. Its
ultimate goal is to allow the reading public to appreciate Chinese
literature with the degree of uncompromising sophistication and
unalloyed enjoyment which can be found in the exploration of other,
better-known literatures which have been translated into English.
White
Pine Press
A non-profit literary press established in 1973, publishing literature
from around the world. They publish poetry, fiction, essays, short
stories and literature in translation.
wORking
Press
working Press works as an agency to encourage working class people,
especially from marginalised groups, to realise their work in
book format. Their area of publication is roughly that suggested
by 'books by for and about working class artists and writers'.
Xexoxial
Endarchy, Ltd.
A nonprofit artist-run multi-arts organization devoted to the
distribution and support of, and education about the new and experimental
arts, with an emphasis on networking. XE acts as an umbrella;
Xexoxial Editions, publisher of experimentalvisual/verbal literature,
Audio Muzixa Qet, an audio/ video cassettes label; Avant Garde
Museum of Temporary Art, an archive, exhibition space, & sponsor
of collaborative mail projects; Autoceptor Experimedia, specializing
in interactive hypermedia for Macintosh computers.
Zoland
Books
Founded in 1987, Zoland Books is an independent publishing company
producing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art books of literary
interest.
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