This is a list of English language
small press
A small press is a publisher with annual sales below a certain level or below a certain number of titles published. The terms "indie publisher" and "independent press" and others are sometimes used interchangeably.
Independent press is general ...
es, small publishers, current or past, that have published (printed) works of fiction and nonfiction, poetry, short stories, essays, pamphlets, limited edition or collectible
books
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physica ...
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chapbook
A chapbook is a small publication of up to about 40 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch.
In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Produced cheaply, chapbooks were commonly small, paper-covered bookl ...
s, and other forms of literature. In addition to publishing few books per year, the
print runs of their titles are often smaller than for books from larger publishers. This list does include periodic publishers of poetry, and literature journals and magazines, including
alternative comic books. This list does not include exclusively online publishers, academic publishers (who often publish very limited print runs, but for a different market), or businesses operating solely as printers, such as
print-on-demand companies or
vanity press
A vanity press or vanity publisher, sometimes also subsidy publisher, is a publishing house where anyone can pay to have a book published.. The term "vanity press" is often used pejoratively, implying that an author who uses such a service is pub ...
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Advent Press
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Adventures Unlimited Press
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Ahadada Books
Ahadada Books is a small press based in Tokyo, Japan and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, specializing in new and experimental poetry and prose. Established in 1998 by Jesse Glass, it includes such authors as Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk, Eileen Tabios ...
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AK Press
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Akashic Books
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Albion Village Press
Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, recently within the influences of psychogeography. Biography Education
Sinclair was born in Cardiff in 1943. From 1956 to 1961, he was educate ...
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Alternative Comics
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Amra Press
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And/Or Press
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Arkham House
Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which ha ...
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Armida Publications
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Armitage House
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Ashendene Press
The Ashendene Press was a small private press founded by St John Hornby (1867–1946). It operated from 1895 to 1915 in Chelsea, London and was revived after the war in 1920. The press closed in 1935. Its peers included the Kelmscott Press and t ...
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ASIA Publishers (English/Korean bilingual works)
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Atlas Press
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Aunt Lute Books
Aunt Lute Books is an American multicultural feminist press based in San Francisco, California. The publisher also seeks to work with and support first-time authors.
Publishing history
In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and ...
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Backwaters Press
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Bellevue Literary Press
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BenBella Books
BenBella Books is an independent publishing house based in Dallas, Texas. BenBella was founded by Glenn Yeffeth in 2001. It specializes in nonfiction books on popular culture, business, health, and nutrition, along with books on science, politics, ...
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Between the Lines Books
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Bitter Lemon Press
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Black Lawrence Press
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Black Sun Press
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Blue Moon Press
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Boydell & Brewer
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Burning Deck Press
Burning Deck was a small press specializing in the publication of experimental poetry and prose. Burning Deck was founded by the writers Keith Waldrop and Rosmarie Waldrop in 1961 and closed in 2017.
Overview
Although the Waldrops initially promo ...
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Burning Shore Press
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Café Royal Books
Café Royal Books is an independent publisherBrittania [sic/nowiki> Coco-nut Dancers: An interview with Craig Atkinson of Café Royal Books, The Photographers' Gallery. Accessed 11 July 2014.[Dedalus Books
Dedalus Books is a British publishing company specialising in European literature. As stated on their website, Dedalus specialises in "its own distinctive genre, which we term distorted reality, where the bizarre, the unusual and the grotesq ...]
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DNA Publications
DNA Publications was an American publishing company that existed from 1993 to 2007 and was run by the husband-and-wife team of Warren Lapine and Angela Kessler. Initially based in Massachusetts, DNA Publications relocated to Radford, Virginia. ...
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Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc.
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Doves Press
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Dun Emer Press
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Dusie Press
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EDLIS Café Press
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Eidolon Publications
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Eland Books
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ENC Press
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Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Enslow Publishing is an American publisher of books and eBooks
An ebook (short for electronic book), also known as an e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on ...
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Etruscan Press
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Europa Press
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Exact Change
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FabJob Inc.
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Fanfrolico Press
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Fantasy Press
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Featherproof Books
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Fedogan and Bremer
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Fiction Collective Two
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Flying Fame Press
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Flying Fish Books
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Flying Fish Press
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Fortune Press
Fortune may refer to:
General
* Fortuna or Fortune, the Roman goddess of luck
* Luck
* Wealth
* Fortune, a prediction made in fortune-telling
* Fortune, in a fortune cookie
Arts and entertainment Film and television
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Four Walls Eight Windows
Four Walls Eight Windows was an American independent book publisher in New York City. Known as 4W8W or Four Walls, the company was notable for its dual commitment to progressive politics and adventurous, edgy literary fiction.
History
Four W ...
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FPCI
Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., or FPCI, was an American science fiction and fantasy small press specialty publishing company established in 1946. It was the fourth small press company founded by William L. Crawford.
Crawford's first comp ...
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Fugue State Press
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Fulcrum Press
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Gnome Press
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Golden Cockerel Press
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Graywolf Press
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Grey Walls Press
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Griffith Review
''Griffith Review'' is a quarterly publication featuring essays, reportage, memoir, fiction, poetry and artwork from established and emerging writers and artists. Each edition focuses on a contemporary theme, enabling pertinent issues to be aired ...
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GUD Magazine
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Hangman Books
Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959) is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art. He has le ...
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Harbor Mountain Press
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Haymarket Books
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Headmistress Press
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Hogarth Press
The Hogarth Press is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that was founded as an independent company in 1917 by British authors Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. It was named after their house in Richmond (then in Surrey and n ...
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Hours Press
Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 – 17 March 1965) was a British writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class, and devoted much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. She became a muse to some of the ...
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Influx Press
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ISFiC Press
ISFiC Press is the small press publishing arm of ISFiC. It often produces books by the Author Guest of Honor at Windycon, an annual Chicago science fiction convention, launching the appropriate title at the convention.
Although the press official ...
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Ishi Press
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Kelmscott Press
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Katydid Books
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Knockabout Comics
Knockabout Comics is a UK publisher and distributor of underground and alternative books and comics. They have a long-standing relationship with underground comix pioneer Gilbert Shelton.
History
The company was founded in 1975 by Tony and C ...
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Kore Press
Kore Press is an American nonprofit literary press founded in 1993 and located in Tucson, Arizona. The press publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by women, transgender or gender non-conforming women. Kore Press's output includes boo ...
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Korero Press
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Last Gasp (publisher)
Last Gasp is a San Francisco-based book publisher with a lowbrow art and counterculture focus. Owned and operated by Ron Turner, for most of its existence Last Gasp was a publisher, distributor, and wholesaler of underground comix and books o ...
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Legend Press
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Macleay Press
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Mandrake of Oxford
Mandrake of Oxford is a specialist independent publisher based in Oxford, England, primarily known for the publication of "hands-on" books for occult practitioners.Evans (2007), p. 39 The company was started in 1986 under the name Golden Dawn P ...
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Mandrake Press
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Marick Press
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Matrix Press
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Mayapple Press
Mayapple Press is a literary small press originally from Bay City, Michigan, but now based in Woodstock, New York. Founded by poet and translator Judith Kerman. Mayapple Press has produced more than 70 titles, primarily poetry by single authors, b ...
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Megara Publishing
Megara (; el, Μέγαρα, ) is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken ...
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Melville House Publishing
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Menard Press
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Mercury House
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Migrant Press
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Milkweed Editions
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Moschatel Press
Moschatel Press is a small press publisher producing artist's books and poetry collections. It was founded in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, in 1973, by the artist Laurie Clark and the Scottish poet Thomas A. Clark and moved to Pittenweem, Fife ...
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Mourne Press
Richard Rowley was the pseudonym of Richard Valentine Williams (2 April 1877 – 25 April 1947), born at 79 Dublin Road, Belfast, Ireland, who wrote poetry, plays and stories.
Early life
At the age of 16 he entered the family firm, McBride an ...
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Mycroft & Moran
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Necronomicon Press
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NESFA Press
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New Rivers Press
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New Village Press
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New Writers Press
New Writers' Press was an Irish small press that specialised in poetry publishing. The press was founded in 1967 by the poets Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce and Smith's wife Irene in response to what they felt to be the stagnant state of Irish p ...
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Nonesuch Press
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Obsidian House Publishing
Obsidian House Publishing (OHP) is one of the oldest publishing houses, and it predates more famous houses like Faber and Faber (founded in 1925) and Jonathan Cape (1919). OHP was founded in 1856 in London, England, and it continued publishing u ...
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OR Books
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Ovid Press
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Pagan Publishing
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Parallax Press
Parallax Press is a nonprofit book publisher founded by the Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh. It is part of the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism. Parallax Press publishes more than a hundred books by Thich Nhat Hanh ...
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Permeable Press
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Phantasia Press
Phantasia Press Inc. was an American small publisher formed by Sidney Altus and Alex Berman publishing short-run, hardcover limited editions of science fiction and fantasy books. It was active from 1978 to 1989. The company was based in West Blo ...
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Pirate Press
Brian William Bransom Griffiths (20 August 1948 – 13 September 2007), known as Bill Griffiths, was a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival.
Overview
Griffiths was born in Kingsbury, Middlesex, England. As a ...
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Poetry Bookshop
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Press Gang Publishers
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Purple House Press
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PS Publishing
PS Publishing is an independent book publisher based in Hornsea, UK.
Background
PS Publishing was founded in 1999 by Peter Crowther.
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Pushcart Press
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Pushkin Press
Pushkin Press is a British-based publishing house dedicated to publishing novels, essays, memoirs and children's books. The London-based company was founded in 1997 and is notable for publishing authors such as Stefan Zweig, Marcel Aymé, Ant ...
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Richards Press
Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (29 June 1912 – 23 September 1970), better known as John Gawsworth (and also sometimes known as T. I. F. Armstrong), was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories. He a ...
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Ronin Publishing
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St James Park Press
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St. Dominic's Press
Harry Douglas Clark Pepler (1878–1951), known as Hilary Pepler, was an English printer, writer and poet. He was an associate of both Eric Gill and G. K. Chesterton, working on publications in which they had an interest. He was also a founder w ...
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Salt Publishing
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Sceptre Press
Martin Booth (7 September 1944 – 12 February 2004) was an English novelist and poet. He also worked as a teacher and screenwriter, and was the founder of the Sceptre Press.
Early life
Martin Booth was born in Lancashire England, the son of ...
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Scribe
A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing.
The profession of the scribe, previously widespread across cultures, lost most of its promi ...
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Seizin Press
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Self Publish, Be Happy
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Serif
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Seven Stories Press
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Shasta
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Slough Press
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Small Beer Press
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Soft Skull Press
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Sort of Books
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Spork Press
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Starblaze Graphics
Starblaze Graphics was an imprint of The Donning Company, a publishing company established in 1978 to publish illustrated books in the United States. Notable Starblaze publications include Robert Asprin's ''MythAdventures'' series, as well as two t ...
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Steamshovel Press
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Stone Bridge Press
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Subterranean Press
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Tarpaulin Sky Press
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terra incognita arts organisation + publishers
terra incognita arts organisation was co-founded in East London in 1997 by Juliette Brown and Alana Jelinek initially as a grassroots visual arts organisation, that explored issues arising from lived experiences, particularly questions around ra ...
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This Press
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Three Mountains Press
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Ticonderoga Publications
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Tiny Hardcore Press
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Tupelo Press
Tupelo Press is an American not-for-profit literary press founded in 1999. It produced its first titles in 2001, publishing poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Originally located in Dorset, Vermont, the press has since moved to North Adams, Massachu ...
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Two Dollar Radio
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Twyn Barlwm Press
Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (29 June 1912 – 23 September 1970), better known as John Gawsworth (and also sometimes known as T. I. F. Armstrong), was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories. He a ...
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Ugly Duckling Presse
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Urban Books
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Vale Press
Charles de Sousy Ricketts (2 October 1866 – 7 October 1931) was a British artist, illustrator, author and printer, known for his work as a book designer and typographer and for his costume and scenery designs for plays and operas.
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Vine Press
Victor Benjamin Neuburg (6 May 1883 – 31 May 1940) was an English poet and writer. An intimate associate of Aleister Crowley, he wrote on the subject of occultism, including Theosophy and Thelema. He edited "The Poet's Corner" column in the ...
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Wakefield Press
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Washington Writers Publishing House
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Weekend Press
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Wrecking Ball Press
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Xavier House Publishing
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 ot ...
See also
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Association of Little Presses
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Private press
Private press publishing, with respect to books, is an endeavor performed by craft-based expert or aspiring artisans, either amateur or professional, who, among other things, print and build books, typically by hand, with emphasis on design, grap ...
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Self-publishing
Self-publishing is the publication of media by its author at their own cost, without the involvement of a publisher. The term usually refers to written media, such as books and magazines, either as an ebook or as a physical copy using POD (pr ...
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Small Press Distribution, wholesale distributor of small press materials
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List of English-language book publishing companies
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List of English-language literary presses
References
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