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Genres: Cookbook, Environmental, DIY, Nonfiction, and Children's
Location: San Francisco, US
Website: https://stonepierpress.org/
Accepts unagented submissions
Yes Book proposals - View guidelines →
Indie publisher
Small press

Acadia Tucker

Acadia Tucker

Leslie Crawford
Genres: Picture Book, Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Children's
Part of: Walker Books > Candlewick Press
Location: Boston, US
Website: https://www.candlewick.com/
Accepts unagented submissions
Yes
Indie publisher
Mid size

Martin Handford

Kate DiCamillo

Megan McDonald
Genres: Picture Book, Middle Grade, and Children's
Location: Bangalore, IN
Website: https://prathambooks.org/
Accepts unagented submissions
Yes Manuscript entries - View guidelines →
Indie publisher
Small press

Vinayak Varma

Yamini Vijayan

Shikha Tripathi
Creative Mind Publications is an award-winning independent publishing and literacy consulting company that helps authors bring their books to life and helps teach the world to read.
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Children's, Christian, Fiction, and Women's Fiction
Location: Richmond, US
Website: https://creativemindspublications.com/
Accepts unagented submissions
Yes Digital - View guidelines →
Indie publisher
Small press
Laura Jacobson

Donna Dalton

Kathryn Starke
Genres: Children's and Fiction
Part of: Amazon Publishing > Two Lions
Location: Seattle, US
Website: https://amazonpublishing.amazon.com/two-lions.html
Accepts unagented submissions
No
Mid size

Anna Kang

Korey Watari

Jim Benton
Confluence Literary Agency was formed in 2026 through the merger of Bond Literary Agency and Copps Literary Services, uniting decades of industry expertise with a fresh vision for literary representation.
Genres: Children's, Cookbook, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literary Fiction, Middle Grade, Mystery & Crime, Nonfiction, Science Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, and Young Adult
Location: New York City, US
Website: https://www.confluencelit.com/
Accepts unagented submissions
No Digital - View guidelines →
Indie publisher
Small press
Genres: Picture Book, Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Children's
Part of: HarperCollins > Farshore Books
Location: New York City, US
Website: https://www.farshore.co.uk/
Accepts unagented submissions
No
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Pip Bird

Rachel Ip

Sera Milano
Genres: Children's, Comics & Graphic Novels, and Middle Grade
Location: Cambridge, US
Website: https://www.barefootbooks.com/
Accepts unagented submissions
Yes Manuscript entries - View guidelines →
Indie publisher
Mid size
Katrina Tangen
Anna Staniszewski
Lakshmi Thamizhmani
Essie White Literary is a literary agency dedicated to representing both new and accomplished writers and illustrators.
Genres: Children's, Comics & Graphic Novels, Middle Grade, and Young Adult
Location: Minneapolis, US
Website: https://www.essiewhiteliterary.com/
Accepts unagented submissions
No
Indie publisher
Small press
Genres: Picture Book, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Sports & Outdoors, True Crime, Health & Wellbeing, Self-Help, Humor, History, Environmental, Politics, Business, Biographies & Memoirs, Mystery & Crime, Romance, Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Medical, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Children's
Location: Sydney, AU
Website: https://www.allenandunwin.com/
Accepts unagented submissions
No Manuscript entries & contests - View guidelines →
Indie publisher
Mid size

J. R. R. Tolkien

Emily Maguire

Anna & Barbara Fienberg
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