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Best African American Book Publishing Companies

Showing 35 publishers that match your search.

Arsenal Pulp Press

Genres: LGBTQ+, Young Adult, African-American, Middle Grade, Picture Book, Biographies & Memoirs, History, Humor, Politics, Comics & Graphic Novels, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, Fiction, Children's, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Cookbook

Location: Vancouver, CA

Website: https://arsenalpulp.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

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Butter Honey Pig Bread

Francesca Ekwuyasi

Getting Glam at Gram's

Sara Weed

Iron Goddess of Mercy

Larissa Lai

Peepal Tree

Genres: Literary Fiction, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, African-American, Fiction, and Poetry

Location: London, GB

Website: https://www.peepaltreepress.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC, AfricanAmerican

Accepts unagented submissions

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Madwoman

Shara McCallum

Daylight Come

Diana McCaulay

Modern, Age, &c.

Raymond Ramcharitar

Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press

Genres: African-American, Math & Science, Art, Architecture, History, Biographies & Memoirs, Health & Wellbeing, History, Religion & Spirituality, BIPOC, Diverse Literature, and Nonfiction

Location: New York City, US

Website: http://africaworldpressbooks.com/

Diversity: BIPOC, Diverse Literature

Accepts unagented submissions

No

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Voices of a Black Nation

Theodore G. Vincent

My Life, My Ethiopia

Mary Tadesse

Ubuntu for Warriors

Colin Chasi

La Femme Fatale Publishing

Genres: Urban Fiction, African-American, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, and Fiction

Location: Washington DC, US

Website: https://lffpublishing.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

No

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Diamond in the Rough

Skye Warren

Rush

Shaheta Pickett

Breeze Bye

Tanisha Bowman

RJ Publications

Genres: Urban Fiction, Romance, African-American, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, and Fiction

Location: Houston, US

Website: https://rjpublications.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

No

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Hoodfellas

Richard Jeanty

Deceived

The Phantom

Going All Out

Dorian Sykes

Noemi Press

Genres: Literary Fiction, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, African-American, Fiction, Poetry, and Short Story

Location: Richmond, US

Website: http://www.noemipress.org/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC, AfricanAmerican

Accepts unagented submissions

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Her 37th Year, an Index

Suzanne Scanlon

Salton Sea

George McCormick

The Lucky Ones Get To Be People

Rachel Haley Himmelheber

City Lights Publishers

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literary Fiction, LGBTQ+, Politics, Women's Fiction, Travel, African-American, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Short Story

Location: San Francisco, US

Website: http://www.citylights.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

No Manuscript entries -

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Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

Dispatches from the Race War

Tim Wise

Danger and Beauty

Jessica Hagedorn

Black Classic Press

Genres: African-American, History, Biographies & Memoirs, Education & Reference, BIPOC, Diverse Literature, Nonfiction, and Poetry

Location: Washington DC, US

Website: http://www.blackclassicbooks.com/

Diversity: BIPOC, Diverse Literature

Accepts unagented submissions

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Literary Garveyism

Tony Martin

African Fundamentalism

Tony Martin

The Graphomaniac's Primer: a Semi-Surrealist Memoir

Walter Mosley

Third World Press Foundation

Genres: Screenplays, Young Adult, African-American, Middle Grade, Education & Reference, History, Politics, Urban Fiction, Academic, Biographies & Memoirs, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

Location: Chicago, US

Website: https://thirdworldpressfoundation.org/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

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Taught by Women

Haki Madhubuti

Harlem Renaissance Redux

Herb Boyd

Aloneness

Gwendolyn Brooks

Just Us Books

Genres: Picture Book, African-American, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, and Poetry

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://justusbooks.com/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

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The Talk

Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices

Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson

We Could Be Brothers

Derrick Barnes

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