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This list exists because I went looking for this resource and couldn't find it. Earlier this fall, I began planning a reading series where each month I would reach out to book presses, literary journals, and organizations whose work I admired and ask them to suggest a writer to read representing them. As an editor myself, I liked the idea of highlighting editorial curation by asking colleagues: Hey, what writer are you especially excited about right now? Who do you want to bring to a different audience? Whose book is coming out or whose work is being overlooked or what writer in your roster do you wish would do more readings? And since I planned on having a mix of older more established presses and journals with newer fresh-faced ones each time, I hoped it would be a way to foster new connections in the literary community too.

I hadn't initially intended for my series to focus on women-run presses, but then while out for drinks with my friend Jen, a fellow poet, we found ourselves making a list of women-run and/or women-founded presses in New York, mostly with the idea of someday throwing a huge party. We were surprised at how few names we came up with-we knew there must be presses we'd forgotten to list or didn't know about yet. The next day I reached out to a few organizations to see if someone else already had a list like this, but no one did. It bothered me that this list-which seemed like such a fundamentally useful resource-didn't exist yet so I decided to compile it myself. I didn't want to exclude presses with some men on board, but I wanted to focus on places with a strong female editorial presence, either currently or historically.

Editorial curation is important: books don't just magically manifest as galleys submitted to reviewers or on bookstore shelves. We need to think about whose voices are heard and who chooses those voices to present to a larger audience. I suspect editors often choose work because it speaks to them in a way that feels personal; that it echoes something within them so they somehow feel like they're sharing an experience with the author. This doesn't mean that editors aren't moved by or drawn to work by the opposite gender or by writers otherwise different from them-editors are drawn to aesthetic choices, intellectual rigor, and emotional resonance and those are not categories defined by gender or life experience. In my own career, many of the editors who have been the most consistently encouraging and supportive of my work have been men, and as an editor I think I've selected an equal number of male authors as female from our slush pile for publication. But I also believe we are primed by our culture to unconsciously look at some types of stories and certain voices as more important than others and those unconscious beliefs are often reflected in the work that editors choose to publish-it becomes a kind of muscle memory that can unconsciously affect the choices editors make.

When we keep prioritizing the same voices and narratives over and over again, we get trapped inside a self-replicating machine of This Is What Important Literature Looks Like. This can affect how editors and other gatekeepers respond to narratives involving gender just as much as race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, trans and non-binary stories, and work that explores the life experiences of people with disabilities, and those of different ages and class brackets. Editors need to step outside of that machine and that may be easier to do if their own experiences are different than the Important Literature narratives we've been taught-the Hemingway story, the Jonathan Franzen story. I'm not saying Hemingway and Franzen aren't important writers; but they aren't the only ones. While many editors of all types absolutely do look for diverse voices, those with life experiences and identities different than the hegemonic narrative may often be better able to recognize these writers' merits-either because they may be making a more consistent, conscious choice to support diverse voices or because they don't have to make an imaginative leap to be inside these other stories in quite the same way as those whose look in the mirror each morning and see Holden Caulfield, Nick Carraway or Hal Incandenza staring back at them. In that sense, I hope that this list will be a useful resource for women writers looking for places to submit their work just as much as for people who want to support presses and journals run by women.

I made this list by posting a query in a Facebook group for women writers that I belong to and also asking friends for more names. Within a week, I had a long list of presses and journals but very little in the way of contact information. It took about a month of follow up research during my spare hours to pull this together. One thing I learned from this project is that far too many literary journals and presses do not have contact information listed on their websites or, if they do, it's often a scavenger hunt to find it. Many also do not seem to check their Other folder in Facebook messages.

I also learned that people often wanted to be helpful but had little concrete information about the history or current editorial boards of the presses and journals they mentioned, frequently suggesting publications they liked but that had no female editors on board or where there might be one or two female editor in a sea of male ones. I don't want to discount the excellent writing that those publications bring to the world or the importance of those lone women editors, but this list is intended to contain only presses, journals, and organizations that were all either founded or co-founded by women and/or that have primarily women editors curating their catalog. In some cases, I did list presses where the current editorial board may skew male or the press wasn't originally founded by women, but there is a previous history of female editorship and current focus on nurturing women's voices (for example, Persea Books) or the press is a collective with an equal or greater amount of women involved (Ugly Duckling Presse). I also listed organizations like the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Society of America, and the Poetry Project which all have publishing branches, to some degree or another, and are either currently run by or were founded by women. While making this list, I found out about fantastic journals and presses I hadn't heard of before and I'm really excited about all the amazing women in our community doing such valuable work. I also know there are more journals and presses out there that fit the criteria but I haven't heard about yet as well as those whose contact information I simply could not, for all my efforts, locate-I hope people will keep reaching out to me with new names and contact information so that I can continue updating this list.

My interest in compiling this list has been both community-oriented and selfish. I wanted to create a solid resource for other women writers and editors, those looking for homes for their work or for other colleagues to reach out to. I still want to throw that giant party for women editors that was the catalyst for Jen and I beginning this list at a bar months ago. But I also wanted a practical resource for my reading series, which has now found a home at Pen and Brush, a 120-year-old nonprofit supporting women in the visual and literary arts. They have a gorgeous space in New York City's Flatiron district-light, airy, and full of good people and inspiring art-and I will be hosting "Pen and Brush Presents..." there on the first Wednesday of every month, kicking off in March 2016. If you are an editor at one of the places on my list, you are quite likely to get an email from me sometime soon asking if you'd like your press/journal to be featured. If you are a writer suggested to me by your editors, I look forward to introducing you to our audience. I hope everyone will join me and attend a reading there. Please stop by and say hi.
Thank you to everyone who submitted their suggested additions. Please submit further women-founded and/or female-run presses to our VIDA Resources by clicking here or by emailing resources@vidaweb.org. Please make sure to include all relevant information including a link to the website. All presses listed here will be be moved to VIDA Resources. We are closing the comments so that all additions can go directly to VIDA Resources. Organized alphabetically by state, including international and internet categories.
Updated: January 31, 2016
List of Women-Founded &/or Primarily Female-Run Book Presses, Organizations, & Literary Magazines Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California
Agape Editions-Los Angeles, CA
Fox Frazier-Foley, Founding Editor-in-Chief
fox@agapeeditions.com
books, and an e-chapbook series

Aunt Lute Books -San Francisco, CA Joan Pinkvoss, co-founder and publisher books@auntlute.com

Claudia Wilde, publisher C.A. Casey, head of operations and chief editor casey@bedazzledink.com

Gold Line Press -University of Southern California Leah Bailly, Editor-in-Chief editors@goldlinepress.com

Ricochet Editions -University of Southern California imprint of Gold Line Press founded by Diana Arterian and Fox Frazier-Foley editors@ricocheteditions.com
Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida
European Geeks Publishing -Florida founded by Elisha Neubauer
specialize in science fiction and fantasy
info@europeangeeks.com
Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois
Misty Publications -Chicago, IL Susan Yount also publish Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal

Pica Pica Press
Elizabeth Novickas
info@picapica.press books in translation from Lithuanian, Yiddish, German, Polish, Russian, Belarussian and Ukrainian

-Chicago, IL Switchback Books
Hanna Andrews and Whitney Holmes, editors
editors@switchbackbooks.com

Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky
Sarabande Books -Kentucky
founded by Sarah Gorham and Jeffrey Skinner
looks like entire staff right now is all women, including founding editor
Kristen Radtke
kristen@sarabandebooks.org

Louisiana Maine
Alice James Books
-originally founded by 5 women and 2 men, wanted to give women access to publishing
Carey Salerno, Executive Editor (was also a P&B Guest Literary Arts Curator this past year)
alicejamesEA@alicejamesbooks.org
Maryland Massachusetts
Robin Stratton, Acquisitions Editor/Editor-in-Chief bigta bleco@aol.com

Cervena Barva Press -Somerville, MA Gloria Mindock, Editor
editor@cervenabarvapress.com

Kattywompus Press -Somerville, MA (founded in Cleveland, OH)
founder and editor Sammy Greenspan contact@kattywompuspress.com

Linsey Jayne and Erin Ollila, founding editors editors@sprylit.com

Michigan Minnesota
Clover Valley Press -Duluth, MN Charlene J. Brown, editor and publisher charlene@clovervalleypress.com

Yellow Medicine Review
Judy Wilson editor@yellowmedicinereview.com
Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey
Rachel Marie Patterson and Dara-Lyn Shrager The Coniston Prize
New Mexico
Noemi Press -New Mexico
publisher is Carmen Gimenez Smith
managing editor is Sarah Gzemski
Diana Arterian is one of the poetry editors
noemipressbooks@gmail.com

Synergetic Press Deborah Parrish Snyder, Publisher & CEO
Tel. +505 424 0237
New York
Lynne DeSilva-Johnson
lynne@theoperatingsystem.org
full length works of prose, plays, fiction, and hybrid genres, and full length poetry books

Other Press
Judith Gurewich, publisher editor@otherpress.com

Katie Raissian, publisher and editor-in-chief stonecutterjournal@gmail.com
annual art and lit mag

founded by Alane Salierno Mason, Dedi Felman, and Samantha Schnee Karen Phillips, Executive Directior karen@wordswithoutborders.org
North Carolina
Carolina Wren Press -Durham, NC Robin Miura, Director Andrea Selch, Board President carolinawrenpress@earthlink.net
North Dakota Ohio
Dianne Borsenik, founder and editor NightBallet Press -Cleveland, OH

nightballetpress@gmail.com
poetry collections
Oklahoma Oregon
Hawthorne Books -Portland, OR Rhonda Hughes, editor and publisher rhughes@hawthornebooks.com

Tavern Books -Portland, OR
Natalie Garyet and Carl Adamsky
The Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series
Pennsylvania
Gigantic Sequins -Philadelphia, PA
Kimberly Ann Southwick, Christine Friedlander
giganticsequins@gmail.com
Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee
Upper Rubber Boot Books -Nashville, TN Joanne Merriam joanne@upperrubberboot.com
Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington
Aqueduct Press -Seattle, WA L. Timmel Duchamp, founder and editor
info@aqueductpress.com specializes in feminist science fiction

Crab Creek Review
Linda Clifton, founder
Jennifer Browne Lawrence, co-editor
jlawrence2@wsu.edu
or crabcreekeditors@gmail.com
Washington, D.C.
Split This Rock
Sarah Browning, co-founder, Executive Director Melissa Tuckey, co-founder, former board member
info@splitthisrock.org
networking organization/teaching/resources
West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming International
Knox Robinson Publishing -London, UK & Atlanta, GA Dr. Dana Celeste Robinson, publisher Atlanta: (404) 478 - 8696
London: (+44) 020 8816 8630

Phoenicia Publishing -Montreal, Quebec, Canada Elizabeth Adams, publisher phoeniciapublishing@gmail.com

Tyche Books -Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Margaret Curelas
admin@tycheebooks.com science fiction, fantasy, and related non-fiction
The Internet
Shirley Magazine
Colleen Burner and Lauren Perez shirleylitmag@gmail.com
Could Not Locate Contact Information / Did Not Respond to Facebook Page Message Requesting Direct Contact Information
Black Balloon - can't find any masthead on their website or Catapult (BB is a Catapult imprint)'s website .

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Kate Angus is a founding editor of Augury Books. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2010, Best New Poets 2014, Subtropics, Gulf Coast, The Awl, The Rumpus, and Verse Daily. She has received the "Orlando" prize from the A Room of Her Own Foundation for her nonfiction, as well as awards from Southeastern Review and American Literary Review. Her poetry collection, So Late to the Party, is forthcoming in Spring 2016 from Negative Capability Press.

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List of Women-Run Presses * VIDA: Women in Literary Arts

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Black-Owned Publishers
List compiled by Book Riot-  Black-owned publishers and presses have long been a part of the American publishing industry. The 1960s and 1970s especially saw a massive boom in black-owned publishers, with presses—both general and specialized—springing up in cities across the country. Though many of these small, independent, black-owned publishing houses have since ceased to operate, some are still thriving today. This is a list compiled by BookRiot.

Black-Owned Publishing Companies (aalbc.com)
AALBC.com is the oldest, largest, and most frequently visited web site dedicated to books by, or about, people of African descent. Started in 1997, AALBC.com is a widely recognized source of information about Black authors.

Indigenous Publishers and Presses
List maintained by the Indigenous Literary Studies Association(ILSA). ILSA is a scholarly body based in lands claimed by Canada that focuses on the teaching and study of Indigenous peoples' literatures. ILSA helps bring established and new scholars and writers together, to provide resources for teaching, studying, research, conferences, and publishing in a diverse range of Indigenous literary activities.

Indigenous Publishers, Distributors & News Media
Extensive list of Indigenous publishers compiled/provided by the University of British Columbia Library.

Small Presses Owned by Black, Indigenous and People of Color
List maintained by the Cooperative Children's Book Center, School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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The Feminist Press is an educational nonprofit organization founded to advance women's rights and amplify feminist perspectives.

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