Slush

If you don’t know what this is...

Now: go to the presses’ websites, read the guidelines, get published! I know they say without an agent your shot is less than a snowball’s in hell, but what the hell. Be the first hot snowball. Or you can go to Slush Pile Reader and get taken care of.

Poetry

Arktoi Books: “literary works of high quality by lesbian writers”
Ausable Press: query in June
Backwaters Press – open and ongoing. It’s how they roll.
Big Game Books
BkMk Press
Black Ocean Books
Boa Editions (they announce an open reading period every year)
Bottom Dog Press
Carolina Wren Press – February 1 to June 1
Chronicle Books
C & R Press. Slush acceptance starts in 2008.
Carnegie Mellon University Press
CavanKerry Press
Copper Canyon Press, only for peeps who have already published a book.
Counterpath Press
Dancing Girl Press
Estruscan Press
Eastern Washington University (gotta send a query…)
Four Way Books (open reading period each June, but it costs ya…)
Graywolf Press
Hanging Loose Press
Holy Cow! Press
Kennesaw State University Press
Manic D
Mid-List Press
Milkweed Editions
Mayapple Press - high literature only! (say it with a British accent then send it off)
Noemi Press
Overhere Press
Pecan Grove Press
Red Morning Press
Sarabande Books (open reading period every September!)
Serious Ink Press – send it electronically, too!
Sixteen Rivers Press
Steel Toe Books
Tarpaulin Sky Press
Three Candles Press (the open reading periods differ depending on what they’re looking for…check back often)
Tupelo Press (but the damned open reading period isn’t free!!!!!!)
University of Pittsburgh Press
Wave Books (open reading period changes yearly, so always check back)
Waywiser Press
Wings Press
WordTech Communications LLC

Fiction

Aunt Lute Books – fiction and non fiction
Bella Books (lesbian fiction)
BkMk Press
Black Ocean Books
Carolina Wren Press – February 1 to June 1
Chronicle Books
Cleis Press
Coffee House Press
Counterpath Press
Dzanc Books
Firebrand Books
Graywolf Press
Holy Cow! Press.
Insomniac Press – query first
Intaglio Publications (lesbian fiction)
Kennesaw State University Press
MacAdam Cage Publishing (the reading period changes yearly)
Manic D
Mayapple Press - high literature only! (say it with a British accent then send it off)
Mid-List Press
Ocean Publishing
Seal Press (on-again, off-again with accepting unsolicited fiction)
Serious Ink Press – send it electronically, too!
Soft Skull Press
SOHO Press
Small Beer Press – from my old stomping grounds!
Starcherone Press – late summer/early fall
The Two Dollar Radio – literary fiction