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"Small Press Distribution is a non-profit literary arts organization located in Berkeley, California. Our mission is to connect readers with writers by providing access to independently published literature. SPD allows essential but underrepresented literary communities to participate fully in the marketplace and in the culture at large through book distribution, information services, and public advocacy programs. SPD nurtures an environment in which the literary arts are valued and sustained."

founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, a periodical of student politics, student badinage and student literary enterprise

SPD is now the nation's only exclusively literary nonprofit book distributor, serving over 400 small and independent presses, the majority of which have no other source of distribution. 140+ of SPD publishers are in California, 80+ are in New York, the rest are spread throughout the US, with several in Canada, the UK and in Europe. Two are located in Africa, in Eritrea and Senegal. SPD sells independent literature in every state in the country and to many locations in the world.

Transit Lounge independent press dedicated to the publication of exciting new fiction and non-fiction-particular interest in creative literary publishing that explores the relationships between East and West, entertains and promotes insights into diverse cultures and encompasses diverse genres.

"Australian Book Review (ABR) is Australia's oldest and premier literary review. Created in 1961, and now based in Melbourne and Adelaide, it publishes reviews, essays, commentaries and creative writing."

It's hard to go past the placeholder text that our webmaster originally put here. "This is information about the magazine. We are this old. We are this awesome." If we elaborate a little though, Going Down Swinging is a curious beast. Founded in 1980 by broke writers Kevin Brophy and Myron Lysenko, and employing a Hall of Fame of different editors along the way, we've spent the last 31 years helping broke writers publish other broke writers. Along the way we've developed a reputation as Australia's most innovative and idiosyncratic literary journal. Brophy and Lysenko's original components of fiction, essay and poetry have long sat side by side with the audio and the visual. The only Australian journal to regularly publish spoken word CDs along with each print edition, we also publish full-colour graphic novellas, and commission performance pieces to send on tour. In 2011 the evolution continues, with our first all-digital edition. This is much more than simply putting a paper journal online. GDS #31 is an all-new publication, featuring video, audio, fiction, photography, poetry, and visual art, disparate forms talking to each other in a way that could never be done in print. Smartphones and e-readers mean the journal will be available to anyone with an internet connection. Which is good, because it means GDS can keep bringing you the best artists you've never heard of.

"transit lounge is an independent press dedicated to the publication of exciting new fiction and non-fiction. We have a particular interest in creative literary publishing that explores the relationships between East and West, entertains and promotes insights into diverse cultures and encompasses diverse genres."