Press · Fort Lee, New Jersey
CavanKerry Press
CavanKerry Press is a nonprofit literary small press founded in 2000 and based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The press publishes full-length poetry and creative nonfiction collections exploring everyday emotional and psychological landscapes, including its dedicated LaurelBooks imprint focusing on illness and disability. Unsolicited manuscript submissions are accepted via Submittable during open reading windows in even-numbered years, offering authors national distribution and book contracts under a pay-what-you-can reading fee model.
Open to poets
- Book manuscripts. Open reading period runs in even-numbered years (currently closed; next open period in 2028). Fee: $12–$25 (pay what you can). Simultaneous submissions: yes.
Official site: cavankerrypress.org. Please confirm the details there before you submit.
Checked 2026-11-11. Find more places to send your poems on Poetry Marketplace, free.
More places to send your poems
- Cave Canem
- Cave Wall
- CBC Literary Prizes
- Cease, Cows
- Celia and Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence Program
- Center for African American Poetry and Poetics/Autumn House Press