Stalking Horse Press

About

In the more than 10 years since the founding of Stalking Horse Press, with what agents and large press publishers tell me regularly about the risk-averse corporate milieu in which they operate right now, it is more important to me than ever that this small press exists. Beyond the narrowing aperture of the monopoly presses with their susceptibility to celebrity and AI, where can an aesthetically ambitious writer go? I started this press because I have never been in with the in crowd. And there are many, many excellent, thoughtful authors who are passed over for all of the wrong reasons.
Stalking Horse Press is a small independent publishing house based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded, edited, and produced by writer James Reich. The first titles published were D. Foy’s critically acclaimed novel Patricide, Michael J. Wilson’s debut full-length poetry collection A Child of Storm, and Jason De Boer’s experimental prose work Annihilation Songs: Three Shakespeare Reintegrations. Since then, Stalking Horse Press titles have achieved international recognition for their style and innovation in prose, poetry, and illustration. Authors have included Jennifer Maritza McCauley, David Ohle, Malcolm Mc Neill, Kurt Baumeister, Jessie Janeshek, and Duncan Barlow, to name a few. We publish authors with a fine sense of literary style, with knowledge of their field, and who take aesthetic risks.

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Country of Publication

United States

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Print Publication Print Publication

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Open to a broad Audience.

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Novella: 20,000 - 40,000 words.
Fiction Collection: 20,000 - 90,000 words.
Novel: 40,000 - 90,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

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Media: Text.

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Nonfiction Collection: 20,000 - 90,000 words.
Book: 20,000 - 80,000 words.

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Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

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Open to all/most Topics.

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Media: Text.

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Open to a broad Audience.

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Lengths:

Poetry Collection: 48 pages or more.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

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Submissions:

Method: Submittable submission manager.
Reprints: Unknown.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Media: Text.

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4 responses are pending (18 min | 21.5 mean avg | 20.0 median | 28 max days waiting | 4.4 std dev) from 4 different members

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The most common submission fee paid: USD $5.00.
Most recent response reported was received on 28 Jul 2026.
Responses have been received for submissions sent as recently as 16 May 2026.
Date compiled: 15 Sep 2026 09:47 UTC (less than a minute ago).

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Last Updated: 18 Aug 2026

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