Where to Publish Novellas-/Novels-in-Flash

Independent Publishers who have published more than one novella-in-flash / novel-in-flash in the last five years

Ad Hoc Fiction (NB Ad Hoc Fiction have mainly published novellas-in-flash arising from the B.F.F.A. Competition below, but occasionally publish additional novellas-in-flash outside of this.)
Alien Buddha Press
Bamboo Dart Press
Červená Barva Press
Fairlight Books
Flash: the International Short-Short Story Press
Reflex Press
Rose Metal Press
Truth Serum Press
V. Press

Competitions

Bath Flash Fiction Award Novella-in-Flash Competition – Annual competition since 2017, closing date now end of September.
Black River Chapbook Competition  – for chapbooks of prose 16-36 pages (“prose hybrid welcome”)  – April/May or September/October annually
Flume chapbook contest – “Up to 25 pages of prose (flash, long-form, novella, or a blend of genres)”. September 1st to October 15th 2023.
Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize – “single-author prose manuscripts of twenty-five to forty-five pages. Because we know writers are inspired by stories of many lengths, entered chapbooks should be around 70% flash and microfiction, but we’d love to allow space for longer stories for the final 30% of each submitted chapbook. Collections should consist of fiction only. No poetry or creative nonfiction at this time, please.” Deadline April 14th 2024.
Masters Review Chapbook Contest “We’re interested in collections of flash fiction, creative nonfiction essays, short stories, and anything in-between. We encourage you to be bold, to experiment with style and form, as long as you stay under 45 pages.” Deadline 17th December 2023.
2023 Moon City Short Fiction Award – Although NIFs aren’t specified by name, guidelines encouragingly state: “for an original collection of short fiction…entries may include short shorts, short fiction, and/or up to one novella.” – Ends 1st May 2023
National Flash Fiction Day – Ran a N-I-F competition in 2021
Regal House Publishing – The 2023 Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas
Reflex Press Novella Award – For all kinds of novellas, but this competition has novellas-in-flash among its past winners. Closing date usually in January.
Retreat West Novelette-in-Flash Prize – Ran their competition in 2020 and 2021.
Sandy Run Novella Award | Hidden River Arts– for all kinds of novellas, but open to novellas-in-flash
Sundress Publications Annual E-chapbook Competition – Although NIFs aren’t specified by name, guidelines encouragingly state: “poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work are welcome” – deadline 31st May 2023
The Broken Spine Annual Chapbook Competition – “prose submissions across all themes and genres”, up to 24 pages. “We particularly encourage submissions from underrepresented writers, including women (or those who identify as female), LGBTQIA+ writers, writers of colour, and disabled writers, although submissions will be read blind.” Closes 30th September 2023.
The Cupboard Annual Pamphlet Contest – prose manuscripts between 5,000 and 10,000 words. “We make no demands on content or genre, with the exception of verse poetry, which we don’t publish.”
The Prototype Prize – a new bi-annual Prize for “work that interrogates the boundaries of established formal, narrative and genre conventions.” “Fiction, poetry and non-fiction prose are all eligible, with no restrictions on style, form or subject-matter, with interdisciplinary approaches particularly welcomed.” Website also states they are “committed to providing a home for hybrid and free-form contemporary works that often resist definition.”
Weatherglass Books Inaugural Novella Award – “20k-40k words, and not more than 150 pages”
The Watson, Little x Indie Novella Prize – for novel-length manuscripts, style unspecified (three strands: characters & community, climate, crime fiction)

Independent Publishers who have recently published at least one book (or pamphlet) that could be described as a novella-in-flash / novel-in-flash

above/ground press (e.g. Off the Resting Sea)
And Other Stories (e.g. Somebody Loves You)
Arachne Press (e.g. Getting By in Tligolian – NB only open to authors who’ve already had a story or poem published by them, having responded to a specific, public submissions call for one of their anthologies: “Send us something for an anthology. If we publish it and you show us you would be exciting to work with we will invite you to submit something more substantial”).
Arroyo Seco Press (e.g. Burn It All Down)
Broken Sleep Books (e.g. Go On)
CB Editions (e.g. The Absent Therapist, Days and Nights in W12, Take Two)
Cinnamon Press/Liquorice Fish Books (NB prose poetry/micro-fiction sequences that resemble novellas-in-flash – e.g. Ed’s Wife and Other Creatures & The True Story of Cowboy Hat and the Ingenue).
Civil Coping Mechanisms (e.g. I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying)
Counterpoint Press (e.g. Why Did I Ever, One D.O.A., One on the Way)
Keyhole Press (e.g. How to Predict the Weather)
Kith Books (e.g. Magpie Moon – NB collaborative publishing model)
Impspired (e.g. The bones of the story)
Off Topic Publishing (e.g. The Price of Cookies – forthcoming)
Roi Fainéant Press (e.g. Me, I Call Myself Girl – NB serial online publication)
Shanti Arts Publishing (e.g. Paperboy)
University of Pittsburgh Press (e.g. All the Day’s Sad Stories, as part of The Physics of Imaginary Objects)
WTAW Press (e.g. Sarra Copia: A Locked-in Life)

Independent publishers who have recently published related books and have said that they are (or who may be) open to novella-in-flash / novel-in-flash manuscripts

Black Lawrence Press (various submission opportunities, incl. Black River chapbook contest, listed above – open to novellas, novels, poetry, and short story collections, and they have previously stated: “enthusiastic about hybrid submissions”)
Chestnut Review – 1st March to 30th April & 1st October to 30th November. Although NIFs aren’t specified by name, this publisher has for a long time been open to flash fiction and encouraged submission of hybrid work: “We love mixed-genre and mixed-media pieces!” &  “Chapbooks may be poetry, prose, or hybrid.”
Driftwood Press
Emerge Literary Journal
The Emma Press (open 30th January – 6th February 2024 for novellas (style not specified))
Fiction Attic (online opportunity for N-I-Fs through serial instalments on Substack)
Fish Gotta Swim Editions
Fly on the Wall Press (although the publisher notes that they have so far preferred traditional novellas)
Leamington Books
Little Thorn Books (publishing novellas in the following genres: Victoriana, gothic, steam punk, magic realism and supernatural)
Northern Weird Project/Wild Hunt Books – “Wild Hunt Books are seeking short novellas from writers living in the North of England who are also engaging in the North as setting, subject, character or any way that highlights this part of the country. We are looking for novellas in the range of 20-25K words. If you enjoy playing with structure, don’t be shy! We love that, too. open from 1-21 May 2024.”
Paper Visual Art Books – for “novellas, ideally 20,000-30,000 words.” Window closing 31st March 2023.
Peninsula Press
Renard Press
Running Wild Press / RIZE Press
Split/Lip Press
Sundress Publications (“particularly interested in prose collections that value genre hybridization, the lyric, flash, strange or fractured narratives, new fiction, experimental work, or work with strong attention to lyricism and language. These collections may be short stories, novellas, essays, memoir, or a mixture thereof.”)
Vagabond Voices

Larger publishers who have recently published books that could be described as novellas-in-flash / novels-in-flash

4th Estate (e.g. republishing Play It As It Lays & The Atrocity Exhibition)
Arcade Publishing (e.g. Haunted Traveller)
Bloomsbury (e.g. republishing The House on Mango Street, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid & Coming Through Slaughter)
Faber (e.g. Grief is the Thing with Feathers, The Coma)
Granta (e.g. Dept. of Speculation, We the Animals, Weather)
Hamish Hamilton – an imprint at Penguin (e.g. Assembly)
Harper Collins (through various smaller imprints such as Harper Perennial, Flamingo & The Friday Project they have published books such as 253, The Lover and With a Zero at its Heart)
Jonathan Cape – an imprint at Vintage/Penguin/Random House (e.g. Two Pints, Two More Pints)
New York Review Books (e.g. republishing Pitch Dark & Speedboat)
Pan Macmillan (e.g. Our Wives Under the Sea)
Penguin Books (e.g. Black Cake & republishing Mr. Bridge & Mrs. Bridge & The History of Love)
Picador (e.g. Last Orders, The End We Start From)
Viking Books – an imprint at Penguin (e.g. The History of Love, The Midnight Library)
Vintage – an imprint at Penguin/Random House (e.g. 334, The Complete Two Pints)