Publishers Database
The press currently publishes new books primarily under four imprints:
Fabula Rasa: devoted to works inspired by mythology, folklore, and fairy tales.
Body Language: devoted to texts exploring questions of gender and sexual identity.
Sapphic Classics: Published in partnership with Sinister Wisdom, this series reprints important works of feminist lesbian poetry in new editions.
Periscope: devoted to works of poetry in translat...
Action Books publishes poetry and poetry in translation. Perhaps its manifesto is the best way to know what we do:
Action Books is transnational.
Action Books is interlingual.
Action Books is Futurist.
Action Books is No Future.
Action Books is feminist.
Action Books is political.
Action Books is for noisies.
Action Books believes in historical avant-gardes.
& unknowable dys-contemporary discont...
co•im•press (collaborative—cooperative—immediate) is a recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary organization that publishes strange, transgressive, or “unpublishable” poetry, prose, and translations by unsung or under-sung authors and translators. We seek texts that meet the needs of an audience craving a precise combination of formal and linguistic rigor mixed with emotional complexity and dis-ease. The press obsesses over the visceral-mysti...
Saqi Books is an independent publisher of global trade books on the Middle East and North Africa. We also publish literature in translation from 16+ languages under our international fiction imprint Telegram, and challenging non-fiction addressing the leading issues of our times under the imprint The Westbourne Press. Saqi has won many awards over the years including IPG Diversity Award, British Book Industry Award for Diversity in Literature and the Ar...
Words Without Borders is the premier destination for a global literary conversation. Since our founding in 2003, our mission is to cultivate global awareness by expanding access to international writing and creating a bridge between readers, writers, and translators. We publish both established and emerging writers, and we are committed to centering writers in indigenous, endangered, and other world languages that are too often marginalized. Our educati...
ZEPHYR PRESS, founded in 1980, is an award-winning non-profit independent press whose titles and literary events foster a deeper understanding of cultures and languages from around the world. We focus on contemporary poetry and prose in translation from Russia, Eastern Europe and Asia, but also publish literature from other languages and the U.S., and reprint books of literary and historical value that have long been out of print.
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