Flower Press is an equitable publishing practice centering historically marginalized womxn, femme, queer, trans, and non-binary artists and practitioners.

We are based in Detroit, Michigan on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Anishinaabe. We publish zines, periodicals, books, research, chapbooks, resources, operas, poems, dreams, memories, stickers, magic tricks, prayers, guides, maps, tapes, and more.

We will always prioritize submissions by and resources for Queer, Trans, Black, Brown, Indigenous, People of Color, Disabled, Neurodivergent, Low-income artists and practitioners.

We work slowly with our collaborators into relationships built on mutual respect and trust.

We prioritize our collaborators' agency, autonomy, and power, engaging publishing as a tool for collective liberation.

We center our collaborators' wisdom in telling their own stories and gently foster arrival at the most fitting form.

We are committed to developing transparent, creator-focused practices and removing barriers to publishing. Here’s what that looks like.

• Artists retain all rights to their work forever.

• We offer free-of-cost or donation-based design services.

• We offer production advances. We are working toward the ability to subsidize production.

• Artists choose their publishing split with us.

• We distribute artists’ work without cost to the artist.

Submissions

Submissions are currently closed. Please join our mailing list and follow our Instagram to be notified when submissions reopen. We are grateful and humbled by the volume of submissions we have received. If you have submitted a manuscript for review, please note that it may take up to four months to receive a response.

Stockists

We are building relationships with bookstores, galleries, shops, community centers, libraries, and more who are supportive of our collective spirit. If you are interested in stocking work, we’d love to hear from you. Contact us here or email us at flowerpresspublishing@gmail.com.