Host Publications is an award-winning, women-led independent publisher located in Austin, Texas. Devoted to our mission to elevate historically marginalized writers, Host Publications publishes radical poetry and fiction by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices.

Our mission as an independent, intersectional feminist press is to publish groundbreaking poetry by women writers, BIPOC writers, LGBTQ+ writers, writers of a lower socio-economic status, and writers with disabilities. We want to champion work that is experimental and nuanced, engaging with a poetics of liberation, even as it explores the experiences of daily life. We are passionate about publishing poetry and fiction that pushes the boundaries of form, voice, language and style—the boundaries of what language can do. 

We are currently closed for submissions, but will reopen Spring 2025.

Submissions from our Fall 2024 period are currently being reviewed and participants will be notified by February 1st, 2025.