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Bay Area Journals, Presses, and Publishers

Journals

  • 580 Split
  • Baest
  • Berkeley Poetry Review (UCB)
  • Catamaran Literary Reader
  • Fourteen Hills
  • Mission at Tenth
  • Muff Mag
  • New Life Quarterly
  • Nostos
  • Quiet Lightning
  • San Franciscan
  • The Threepenny Review
  • Tripwire
  • Zoetrope: All-Story
  • ZYZZYVA

Presses & Publishers

  • Apogee Press
  • Arion Press
  • Atelos
  • Aunt Lute
  • Be About It
  • Blue Light Press
  • Bootstrap Press
  • Brown Recluse Zine Distro
  • Chronicle Books
  • Colpa Press
  • Commune Editions
  • Compline
  • Counterpoint Press
  • Crown Point Press
  • Dogpark Collective
  • Exit Press
  • Fiction Advocate
  • Floss Editions
  • Foglifter
  • Guba Publishing
  • Heyday 
  • IFSFP Publishing
  • Irrelevant Press
  • Ithuriel’s Spear
  • Jambu Press
  • Jet-tone Press
  • Kelsey Street Press
  • Krupskaya
  • Land and Sea Editions
  • Long Ship
  • Manic D Press
  • McSweeney’s
  • Mondo Bummer
  • MO(O)OON IO
  • Most Ancient
  • Night Diver Press
  • Nomadic Press
  • North Atlantic Books
  • Omnidawn
  • Owl Cave Books
  • PM Press
  • Project Kalahati
  • Red Light Lit
  • redrosethorns
  • Sidebrow
  • Sixteen Rivers Press
  • Sming Sming
  • SpeCt! Books
  • TBW Books
  • Transit Books
  • Two Lines Press
  • Undertone Collective
  • University of California Press (UC)
  • Weavers Press
  • Wet Cement Press
  • Wild Ocean Press

Hat tip to Liam Curley and his project Poets Refine Money, which was the inspiration and source for much of this page!

If you know of any journals or presses not listed, or have any edits to make, please send a line to evan@litseen.com.

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