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Alice James Books
238 Main Street
Farmington, ME 04938
USA
Telephone: 207-778-7071
Fax: 207-778-7071
Email: ajb[no.spam*]umf.maine.edu
Website: http://www.alicejamesbooks.org
Description: The mission of Alice James Books, a cooperative poetry
press, is to seek out and publish the best contemporary poetry
by both established and beginning poets. Their objective is to
give women access to publishing and to involve authors in the
publishing process.
Artemis Press
a division of SRS Internet Publishing
236 West Portal Avenue, #525
San Francisco, California 94127
USA
Telephone: 866-216-7333
Website: http://www.artemispress.com/
Description: Artemis Press is an electronic publisher offering
high quality, thought-provoking fiction and nonfiction e-books
of interest to the worldwide women's community, specializing in
lesbian stories.
Ash Tree Publishing
PO Box 64
Woodstock, NY 12498
USA
Telephone: 845-246-8081
Fax: 845-246-8081
Website: http://www.ashtreepublishing.com
Description: Ash Tree Publishing was founded in 1985. The books
Ash Tree publish offer women simple, successful, and safe ways
to regain and maintain health and vitality through menstruation,
PMS, fertility & pregnancy, childbirth, breast health, cancer
prevention, and menopause.
Asmita ("Identity")
Road 2, West Maredpalli
Sikrandrabad, Andhra Pradesh
India
Telephone: 40-780-3745
Fax: 40-841697
Contact: "Volga" (Lalitha Kumari Popuri)
Description: Asmita currently publishes anthologies of short stories
and poetry, written by and for women. Volunteers work in rural
areas, raising the consciousness of women on issues like rape,
domestic violence, health and reproductive issues.
Aunt Lute Books
P.O. Box 410687
San Francisco, Ca 94141
USA
Telephone: 415-826-1300
Fax: 415-826-8300
Email: books[no.spam*]auntlute.com
Website: http://www.auntlute.com
Description: "...anthologies, and critical essays by women
traditionally under-represented in mainstream and small press
publishing."
Bella Books
P.O. Box 10543
Tallahassee, FL 32302
USA
Telephone/Fax: 800-729-4992
Email: linda[no.spam*]bellabooks.com
Website: http://www.bellabooks.com
Description: Bella Books introduces the next generation of lesbian
fiction in the tradition begun by the Naiad Press. Bella publishes
many of Naiad's most popular authors of lesbian romance and mystery,
along with the work of promising debut writers.
Blue Point Books
P.O. Box 91347
Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1347
USA
Contact: "Cathy & Bruce Feldman"
Email: bpbooks[no.spam*]nest.net
Website:
www.west.net/~bpbooks/mhp.html
Description: A grass-roots effort aimed at publishing books designed to help people. Regularly receives orders for its books from companies, government agnecies and family life education programs in schools.
Bold Strokes Books
430 Herrington Rd.
Johnsonville, NY 12094
USA
Telephone: 518 753 6642
Fax: 518 753 6648
Email: bsb[no.spam*]boldstrokesbooks.com
Website: www.boldstrokesbooks.com
Description: Offers a diverse collection of lesbian-themed general and genre fiction
CALYX Inc.
Calyx Books
P.O. Box B
Corvallis, OR 97339
USA
Telephone: 541-753-9384
Fax: 541-753-0515
Email: Calyx[no.spam*]proaxis.com
Website: http://www.calyxpress.org
Description: CALYX is an inependent, non-profit publisher of contemporary
writing and art by women. It is seeking emerging writers and artists
from diverse backgrounds. CALYX publishes fine literary and artistic
work by women as a way to nurture women's creativity.
Chicory Blue Press, INC
795 East St. North
Goshen, CT 06756
USA
Telephone: 860-491-2271
Fax: 860-491-8619
Email: sondraz[no.spam*]optonline.net
Website: http://www.chicorybluepress.com
Contact: Sondra Zeidenstein
Description: Founded in 1987, Chicory Blue Press is a small, feminist
literary press focusing on the strong voices of women over 60.
Cleis Press
PO Box 14697
San Francisco, CA 94117
USA
Telephone: 415-575-4700
Contact: Frédérique Delacoste and Felice Newman, Publishers
Email: fdelacoste[no.spam*]cleispress.com and felice.newman[no.spam*]cleispress.com
Website: www.cleispress.com
Description: Cleis Press, the largest independent queer publishing company in the United States, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2005. Among many lesbian, feminist, and gay presses that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, Cleis is the only press that is still run by its founders. Felice Newman and Frédérique Delacoste founded Cleis Press in 1980, and have worked together as co-publishers ever since.
DLSIJ Press
1717 E. Calumet St.
PO Box 188
Appleton, WI 54915
USA
Email: 5web8[no.spam*]dlsijpress.com
Website: http://dlsijpress.com
Description: DLSIJ Press is a publisher of ebooks by women authors.
In all our endeavors, we strive to uphold the mores of traditional
publishing while keeping publications available for purchase and
download.
Down There Press
938 Howard St. #101
San Francisco, CA 94103-4114
USA
Telephone: 415-974-8985 x205
Fax: 415-974-8989
Website: www.goodvibes.com
Description: Down There Press is the nation's only independent
publisher devoted exclusively to the publication of sexual health
books for children and adults. We publish books that are innovative,
lively and practical, providing realistic physiological information
with non-judgmental techniques for strengthening sexual communication.
Editorial Egales
C/Cervantes, 2.
08002 Barcelona
Spain
Telephone: + (34) 934 12 52 61
Email: info[no.spam*]editorialegales.com
Website: www.editorialegales.com
Description: E & E. was established in 1995 with the intention of promoting literature directed towards gays and lesbians, practically inexistent in Spanish until then
[The] Feminist Press
The City University of New York
365 5th Avenue, Suite 5406
Graduate Center CUNY
New York, NY 10016
USA
Email: cwebb[no.spam*]gc.cuny.edu
Telephone: 212-817-7915
Fax: 212-817-1593
Website: http://www.feministpress.org
Description: The Feminist Press is a nonprofit literary and educational
publisher, devoted to restoring the lost multicultural history
and literature of women in the US and throughout the world through
the publication of important books by and about women.
Firebrand Books
2232 South Maine Street
#272
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
USA
Telephone: 248-738-8202
Fax: 248-738-7786
Email: firebrand[no.spam*]firebrandbooks.com
Website: http://www.firebrandbooks.com
Description: Firebrand Books is an award-winning feminist and
lesbian publishing house committed to producing quality work in
a wide variety of genres by ethnically and racially diverse authors.
Honno Welsh Women's Press
c/o Canolfan Merched y Wawr
Vulcan St
Aberystwyth
SY23 1JH
UK
Editor: Janet Thomas (English language titles) and Gwenllïan
Dafydd (Welsh language titles)
Telephone & Fax: 01970-623-150
Email: post[no.spam*]honno.co.uk
Website: http://www.honno.co.uk
Description: Honno Welsh Women's Press, established in 1986 by
a group of women in Wales, aims to publish books by women in Wales.
Book genres range from fiction, poetry, children's books, and
autobiographical writing to reprints of classic titles in English
and Welsh.
Intaglio Publications
PO Box 794
Walker, LA 70785
USA
E-mail: publisher[no.spam*]intagliopub.com
Website: http://www.intagliopub.com
Description: A traditional publishing company dedicated to providing some of the best publications within the lesbian community
Isis International
Casilla 2067, correo central. Santiago, Chile.
Esmeralda 636, Santiago
Chile
Teléfono: (56-2) 235 3926
Fax: (56-2) 235 3921
Email: isis[no.spam*]isis.cl
Website: http://www.isis.cl
Descripción: Servicio de información y comunicación
de las mujeres cuyo objetivo es lograr la plena participación
de las mujeres en los procesos de desarrollo.
Description: Women's communication and information service that
seeks to gain full participation of women in the process of development.
Jane's Stories Press Foundation
PO Box 687
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
USA
Website: http://www.janesstories.org
Description: Jane's Stories Press Foundation nurtures emerging
and established writers who are underrepresented in the publishing
industry, focusing on writing by women over 50 and under 24, and
by women of color.
Kali for Women
K-92 First Floor
Hauz Khas Enclave
New Delhi, 110 016
India
Telephone: +91-11-26521008
Fax: (91.11) 686.4497
Email: zubaanwbooks[no.spam*]vsnl.net
Website: http://www.spinifexpress.com.au/fasiapub/india/kali.htm#top
Description: Kali for Women, India's first women's publishing
house, is concerned primarily with publishing Third World studies
on women. Set up in 1984 as a Trust, its objective is to increase
the body of knowledge on women in the Third World, to give voice
to such knowledge as already exists, and to provide a forum for
women writers, creative and academic. It has initiated various
programmes aimed at producing reasonably priced published
material in the social sciences and humanities, general nonfiction,
fiction, pamphlets and monographs.
Kore Press
503 East 9th St.
PO Box 3044
Tucson, AZ 85702-3044
USA
Telephone: 520-629-9752
Email: shannon[no.spam*]korepress.org
Website: http://www.korepress.org
Description: Kore Press is named for the idea that women are agents
of change. This nonprofit press publishes passionate, experimental
and often collaborative literature by diverse women whose perspectives
don't often reach the mainstream. Provides a forum for established
and emerging voices as well as writers from the past we would
like to honor and remember.
Mayapple Press
408 N. Lincoln St
Bay City, MI 48708
USA
Email: jbkerman[no.spam*]mayapplepress.com
Website: http://www.mayapplepress.com
Description: Mayapple Press is a small press established in 1978
by poet and editor Judith Kerman. Mayapple Press takes a special
interest in Great Lakes Regional poetry and poetry by women. Most
publications are in chapbook format.
Midmarch Arts Press
300 Riverside Drive
New York, NY10015
USA
Telephone: 212-666-6990
Fax: 212-865-5510
Contact: C. Navavelta
Website: www.midmarchartspress.org
Email: info[no.spam*]midmarchartspress.org
Description: We publish books focusing on women in the arts, and
poetry by women. We also publish (until its temporary suspension
in 1999) Women Artists News Book Review for six years.
Prior to that we published Women Artists News from 1975-1992.
Montreal Health Press
C.P. 1000, Station Place du Parc
Montreal, QC
H2W 2N1
Canada
Editors: Donna Cherniak, Marilyn Bicher, Judith Crawley,
Office Manger: Eileen Young
Telephone: 514-282-1171 or toll-free 877-282-1171
Fax: 514- 282-0262
Email: mhpmontreal[no.spam*]msn.com
Website: www.worldsfinest.com/mhp
Description: We are a collective of women, producing quality books
on health and sexuality for 30 years. Available at low cost. Books
about birth control, STDs, sexual assault, menopause. In English
and French.
New Victoria Publishers
P.O. Box 13173
Chicago, IL 60613
USA
Telephone: 800-326-5297
Fax: 802-649-5297
Email: newvicpub[no.spam*]aol.com
Website: http://www.NewVictoria.com
Contact: Beth Dingman
Description: Founded in 1976, New Victoria publishes from
8 to 10 books a year, mostly fiction, including mystery, romance
and adventure.
Onlywomen Press, Ltd.
40 St. Lawrence Terrace
London, W10 5ST
United Kingdom
Editor: Lilian Mohin (plus several others)
Telephone: 02083540796
Fax: +2-8960-2817
Email: onlywomenpress[no.spam*]aol.com
Website: http://www.onlywomenpress.com
Description: Independent publishers since 1974, Onlywomen Press
publishes feminist fiction, non-fiction theory and poetry, which
question heterosexual orthodoxies and challenges gender inequalities.
Lesbian authors are given priority.
Paris Press
P.O. Box 487
Ashfield, MA 01330
USA
Telephone: 413-628-0051
Fax: 413-628-0051
Email: info[no.spam*]parispress.org
Website: http://www.parispress.org
Description: A not-for-profit press, publishing work by women
that has been neglected or misrepresented by the literary world.
Publishes 2-3 books a year.
[The] Post Apollo Press
35 Marie Street
Sausalito, CA 94965
USA
Telephone: 415-332-1458
Fax: 415-332-8045
Email: postapollo[no.spam*]earthlink.net
Website: http://www.postapollopress.com
Description: Founded in Sausalito, CA in 1982, the Post Apollo
Press specializes in writing by women. Published writers include
internationally-known poets Etel Adnan & Anne-Marie Alblach.
Raw Nerve Books
Centre for Women's Studies
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
England
Telephone: [00 44] 1904 433 671/4
Email: post[no.spam*]rawnervebooks.co.uk
Website: http://www.rawnervebooks.co.uk/
Description: Raw Nerve Books is a small, not-for-profit feminist
press publishing controversial, under-represented or experimental
work. Whatever the genre, the aim is to inspire new discussions
in areas crucial to women's lives and feminism, asking questions
that might indeed touch a 'raw nerve' with many readers.
RedBone Press
P.O. Box 15571
Washington, DC 20003
USA
Telephone: 202-667-0392
Fax: 301-559-5239
Email: info[no.spam*]redbonepress.com
Website: www.redbonepress.com
Description: RedBone Press publishes work that celebrates the
culture of black lesbians and further promotes understanding between
black gays and lesbians and the black mainstream.
Redstockings
Women's Liberation Archives for Action Distribution Project
P.O. Box 2625
Gainesville, Fl 32602
USA
Email: redstockingfeminism[no.spam*]hotmail.com
Website: http://www.afn.org/~redstock
Description: Redstockings is working to make available a chronological
bibliography of, and public access to, all written documents of
the 1960's rebirth years of feminism.
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
P.O. Box 374
Quetta
Pakistan
Editor: Cultural Committee of RAWA
Telephone: 0092-300-5541258
Fax: 001-760-2819855
Email: rawa[no.spam*]rawa.org or rawa[no.spam*]iname.com
Website: http://www.rawa.org
Description: RAWA publishes a periodical magazine Payam-e-Zan
(Women's Message, ISSN 1563-8456) in Persian/Pashto and Urdu since
1981 and some other publications in English.
Seal Press
Avalon Publishing Group
1400 65th Street, Suite 250
Emeryville, CA 94608
USA
Telephone: 510-595-3664
Fax: 510-595-4228
Email: denise.silva[no.spam*]avalonpub.com
Website: http://www.sealpress.com
Contact: Denise Silva, Editorial Assistant
Description: Founded in 1976, Seal Press continues to thrive and
expand, gaining increasing recognition for our commitment to feminist
publishing.
Second Story Press
20 Maud Street, Suite 401
Toronto, ON
Canada
M5V 2M5
Telephone: 416-537-7850
Fax: 416-537-0588
Email: info[no.spam*]secondstorypress.ca
Website: http://www.secondstorypress.ca
Description: Feminist publishers that produce books that challenge,
inform, stimulate, delight and entertain.
Sibyl Publications
2505 Reuben Boise Road
Dallas, OR 97338
USA
Telephone: 503-623-3438
Fax: 503-623-2943
Email: ms[no.spam*]sibylbooks.com
Website: http://www.sibylpub.com
Description: Sibyl Publications is dedicated to giving a voice
to women.
Sisters in Crime
2505 Reuben Boise Road
Dallas, OR 97338
USA
Contact: Rochele Krich, President
Email: SinC[no.spam*]sistersincrime.org
Website: www.sistersincrime.org
Description: An international organization for people who love mysteries in support of women who write them.
Spinsters Ink
PO Box 242
Midway, FL 32343
Denver, CO 80206
USA
Telephone: 800-301-6860
Email: info[no.spam*]spinstersink.com
Fax: 303-761-3792
Contact: Sharon Silvas, Editorial Director Katherine Hovis, Publisher
Website: http://www.spinsters-ink.com
Description: Spinsters Ink publishes novels and nonfiction works
that deal with significant issues in women's lives from a feminist
perspective. We publish books by and about women on the periphery:
fat women, Jewish women, lesbians, old women, immigrant women,
poor women, rural women, women examining classism, women of color,
women with disabilities and social justice issues.
Sumach Press
1415 Bathurst Street
Suite 202, Toronto, Ontario
M5R 3H8
Canada
Telephone: 416-531-6250
Fax: 416-531-3892
Email: info[no.spam*]sumachpress.com
Website: http://www.sumachpress.com
Contacts: Beth McAuley, Lois Pike, & Liz Martin
Description: Sumach Press are publishers of dynamic feminist writing
with a critical perspective.
Two Lives Publishing
P.O. Box 736
Ridley Park, PA 19078
USA
Telephone: 609-502-8147
Fax: 610-717-1460
Email: bcombs[no.spam*]TwoLives.com
Website: http://www.twolives.com
Description: Two Lives' mission is to publish quality books for
children in alternative families and to provide information to
the LGBT family community through our website.
Vindicación Feminista
Magdalena, 29, 1. 28012
Madrid
Spain
Director: Lidia Falcón
Telephone & Fax: 34 + 91 369 44 88
E-mail: contacto[no.spam*]vindicacionfeminista.com
Website: http://www.vindicacionfeminista.com
Description: Feminist publishing house run by women. Since 1976
it has been publishing books written by women authors. It publishes
fiction (novels, poetry and plays) and nonfiction. It also publishes
the feminist journal Poder y Libertad.
Virago Press
Little, Brown Book Group
Brettenham House
Lancaster Place
London WC2E 7EN
UK
Telephone: 020 7911 8000
Fax: 020 7911 8100
E-mail: Virago.press[no.spam*]littlebrown.co.uk
Website: www.virago.co.uk
Description: Virago is an outstanding international publisher of women's literature. It is the largest women's imprint in the world and has made commercial success of publishing books of quality & originality since 1973.
Volcano Press
P.O. Box 270
Volcano, CA 95689
USA
Telephone: 800-879-9636
Fax: 209-296-4515
Email: ruth[no.spam*]volcanopress.com
Website: http://www.volcanopress.com
Contact: Ruth Gottstein, Publisher; Adam Gottstein, Associate
Publisher
Description: Books on women's health issues and domestic violence.
Wish Publishing
P.O. Box 10337
Terre Haute, IN 47801
USA
Telephone: 812-299-5700
Fax: 928-447-1836
Email: holly[no.spam*]wishpublishing.com
Website: http://www.wishpublishing.com
Description: To provide quality instructional, educational and
inspirational materials to girls and women who play sports, and
those who train and support them.
WomanSpirit Press
P.O. Box 400443
Cambridge, MA 02140
USA
Telephone: 617-491-0603
Fax: 617-661-7360
Email: info[no.spam*]ginaogden.com
Website: http://www.womanspirit.net
Description: Publishes information on sexuality and spirituality,
particularly focusing on women's experiences.
Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press
1940 Calvert Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009-1502
USA
Telephone: 202-265-6707
Email: mediademocracy[no.spam*]wifp.org
Website: http://www.wifp.org
Contact: Martha Allen, President
Description: Nonprofit, tax-exempt research and publishing organization
founded in 1972. Currently publishing the Directory of Women's
Media, a booklet series on media democracy issues, a newsletter
& monthly E-newsletter.
WovenWord Press
811 Mapleton Ave.
Boulder, CO 80304
USA
Telephone: 888-773-7738
Fax: 303-545-9479
Email: books[no.spam*]wovenword.com
Website: http://www.wovenword.com
Description: WovenWord Press publishes works of interest and value
which might not otherwise reach the world of waiting readers.
The author, editor, publisher and artist work together in a joint
effort, conducted in a communal, feminist manner.
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1940 Calvert Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009-1502
phone: 202-265-6707
www.wifp.org