30 Best Spirituality Book Publishers (18 Open Now)

I’ve always been a spiritually inclined person. And even though I don’t adhere to any particular religion, I can’t shake the feeling that there’s a deep source of wisdom and compassion in all of us. If you’re writing from that place, here are 30 publishers of spiritual and religious books and how each one wants to hear from you.

To me, it’s all about the felt experience, spiritual practice, and living by virtuous principles, and the presses below publish across that whole range: Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hindu and Indian traditions, and New Age thought. Eighteen of them take submissions today, from Shambhala and Wisdom to a Torah publisher in New York and an Islamic press in London. One more is an author-funded route, eight publish wonderful books but aren’t reading new work right now, and three post no submission guidelines at all. For each one you’ll find what it publishes and how to reach it. Once you’re done here, browse my handpicked collection of publishing companies.

Submission policies change without notice, so check the publisher’s own page before you send anything, and never pay a reading fee. Last verified: October 1, 2026.

Spirituality publishers taking submissions now

1. Shambhala

Shambhala Publications is an independent, family-owned publisher based in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 1969 and distributed by Penguin Random House. It pairs the attention of a small press with the sales reach of one of the world’s largest publishers, and it is actively looking for new perspectives and underrepresented voices.

Shambhala accepts proposals by email: a synopsis, chapter outline, short bio and two sample chapters. Its current acquisition interests are Buddhism, mindful living, yoga, psychology, health and wellness, nature, parenting and creativity, and it responds within twelve to fifteen weeks. It doesn’t take fiction, poetry, channeled works, end-time prophecy, quotation books or mailed submissions. Submission guidelines.

2. Wisdom Publications

Wisdom Publications grew out of the vision of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche in the 1970s and is now a nonprofit publisher of contemporary and classic Buddhism, mindfulness and meditation, with a separate academic series for scholarly work.

Wisdom accepts unsolicited submissions from authors and agents, but only on topics directly related to Buddhism. You send a proposal or manuscript to its acquisitions committee together with its submission questionnaire, which you’ll find under the manuscript guidelines on its contact page. Submission guidelines.

3. Monkfish Book Publishing

Monkfish calls itself “The Seeker’s Press.” This independent house, started in 2002, publishes spirituality and religion across traditions, in both fiction and nonfiction, and its backlist includes work by Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Alan Watts.

Monkfish accepts submissions directly from authors, no agent needed, by email only. Send one Word file with a synopsis, annotated table of contents, bio, promotion plan, comparable titles and sample chapters covering up to a quarter of the book; it usually replies within two weeks. Its page also warns about scam emails impersonating its staff, so trust only addresses ending in @monkfishpublishing.com. Submission guidelines.

4. O-Books (CollectiveInk)

O-Books is the Body, Mind, Spirit imprint of Collective Ink, an independent UK publisher with more than a dozen imprints. It looks for books that blend ancient teachings with contemporary spirituality and offer readers inspiration, peace and healing.

Collective Ink accepts unsolicited manuscripts through its online author enquiry, one project at a time, with a substantial sample of your text. Read the contract terms in its publishing guide before you sign anything, so you know exactly what you and the publisher each pay for. Submission guidelines.

5. Rockpool Publishing

Rockpool Publishing is a Sydney-based mind, body and spirit publisher of books, oracle and tarot decks, and journals on modern spirituality, nature, crystals and wellbeing. It belongs to the Moore Street Media group alongside Gelding Street Press.

Rockpool accepts unagented proposals through the group’s online submission form on the Moore Street Media website: a short cover letter and synopsis, a table of contents with word count, and your introduction plus the first two chapters. Expect a reply in about four weeks, and plan to take an active part in promoting your book. It doesn’t take fiction, poetry or children’s nonfiction. Rockpool Publishing.

6. TCK Publishing

TCK Publishing is an independent press founded in 2011 that pays no advances but offers a 50% gross royalty and charges authors nothing to publish. Spirituality is one of the nonfiction markets it’s most excited about, alongside self-help, health and wellness, and relationships.

TCK accepts nonfiction book proposals from authors with or without an agent, from anywhere in the world, and replies yes or no within 14 to 21 days. Send one proposal at a time. Fiction is currently closed, and it doesn’t take poetry or children’s books. Submission guidelines.

7. Westminster John Knox Press

Westminster John Knox Press is the academic and trade publisher of the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, with roots going back to 1838. It publishes theology, biblical studies, preaching, worship, ethics, and religion and culture for scholars, clergy, students and general readers.

WJK accepts proposals, including unsolicited ones, by email only; send a proposal, not a full manuscript, and allow eight to twelve weeks or more. It doesn’t publish fiction, memoir, poetry or dissertations, and children’s books go to its partner imprint Flyaway Books. Author guidelines.

8. Zondervan

Zondervan began in a Michigan farmhouse in 1931 and is now part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing in Grand Rapids. It publishes the bestselling New International Version Bible and authors such as Rick Warren, Ann Voskamp and Andy Stanley.

Zondervan accepts unsolicited proposals for two imprints only: Zondervan Reflective (leadership, ministry, faith and culture) and Zondervan Academic (textbooks, commentaries and scholarly work). Email a proposal of five pages or less with the imprint in the subject line; if it’s interested, you’ll hear within six weeks. Fiction, poetry, devotionals and illustrated work aren’t considered. Submission guidelines.

9. Judaica Press

Judaica Press has published Jewish books for fifty years, for every age: board books and picture books, novels for teens and adults, cookbooks, and nonfiction from Torah translations and halacha to biography, history and self-help. Its authors stay involved in editing, design and marketing.

Judaica Press accepts manuscripts that conform to Torah-observant Jewish values, ideally by email as a Word, RTF or PDF attachment with a cover letter and short bio. A completed manuscript is best; it can signal interest in sample chapters but won’t commit without the finished work. Submission guidelines.

10. Feldheim

Philipp Feldheim started with a small bookstore on New York’s Lower East Side in 1939 and built it into a house for “Torah Literature of Quality,” pioneering English translations of traditional Hebrew texts. Today it publishes Jewish law and thought, youth books, cookbooks and novels for Torah-observant readers.

Feldheim accepts completed manuscripts by email, with a cover letter describing the book, its audience and you, plus any haskamos and a table of contents. It aims to reply within three months. Submission guidelines.

11. Koren Publishers

Master typographer Eliyahu Koren founded Koren Publishers Jerusalem more than 50 years ago with the Koren Tanakh, and the house is still known for the precise design of its Bibles, siddurim and editions of traditional Jewish texts, alongside books of Jewish thought.

Koren accepts manuscript submissions: a cover letter, a one-page abstract covering the topic, thesis, readership and what sets the book apart, a table of contents, two sample chapters and a short bio. Review generally takes several months. Submission guidelines.

12. Tughra Books

Tughra Books is an independent Islamic publisher headquartered in Clifton, New Jersey, with offices in Berlin and Cairo. It publishes Islamic history, spirituality, biography, prayer books and interfaith titles, plus stories for young readers such as 100 Hadiths for Children.

Tughra accepts book submissions: send an abstract of the book, a sample chapter and a short bio through its submissions page. Submission guidelines.

13. Ta-Ha Publishers

Afsar Siddiqui and Dr. Jamal-un-Nisa bint Rafai founded Ta-Ha Publishers in London in 1980, naming it after Surah Ta-Ha. Still family-run, it publishes Islamic spirituality, self-help, du’a collections and children’s books in print, ebook and audio.

Ta-Ha accepts unsolicited manuscripts with no agent needed. Email a description of the book, your vision for it and a short bio, with the manuscript attached as a PDF, and it promises a decision within four weeks. Submission guidelines.

14. Kube Publishing

Kube Publishing is an independent UK house founded in 2007 that publishes general-interest, children’s and academic books about Islam and Muslim life, and also distributes other Muslim publishers worldwide.

Kube accepts fiction and nonfiction written from an Islamic perspective through Submittable only, following its house style sheet, and review can take six to nine months. It doesn’t want adult poetry, curriculum books or work unrelated to Islam, Muslims or faith. Submission guidelines.

15. White Thread Press

White Thread Press publishes traditional Islamic scholarship in English, both contemporary works and translations of classical texts in hadith, fiqh, tasawwuf, biography and history. It takes its name from Qur’an 2:187 and is known for careful typesetting and archival-quality paper.

White Thread Press accepts manuscript proposals through an online form and promises a reply within 14 days, considering only work that fits its listed subjects. Manuscript proposals.

16. Roli Books

Roli Books has published from New Delhi since 1978, starting with illustrated art books on India’s history and culture and growing into biography, narrative nonfiction and lifestyle titles such as Saris of India and Dongri to Dubai.

Roli accepts proposals by email to its editorial team, using the subject-line format set out on its publishing page. Submission guidelines.

17. Manohar Publishers

Manohar Publishers & Distributors has published from New Delhi since 1969 and is a scholarly house: history, religion, sociology, politics, art and archaeology of India and South Asia. It suits a researched book on a religious tradition more than a personal spiritual guide.

Manohar accepts proposals by email: the title, a 1,000-word write-up, table of contents, word count, illustration details and a short bionote. It requests the full manuscript only if it’s interested. Submission guidelines.

18. Leadstart India

Leadstart is an Indian trade publisher whose list runs from mythological fiction such as Anand Neelakantan’s Asura to religion, spirituality, self-help and philosophy, with titles like 365 Days of a Sufi.

Leadstart accepts English submissions by email: a concept note, synopsis, table of contents, two sample chapters and an author bio, and it needs at least a month to evaluate them. Its trade route charges nothing; self-publishing runs through separate sister companies, so be clear which offer you’re reading. Submission guidelines.

A paid route for a finished manuscript

19. KTAV

KTAV Publishing House began as a small New York bookstore in 1921 and became a long-running publisher of Judaica, Jewish scholarship and Hebrew education texts. Its name means “to write” in Hebrew, and CEO Moshe Heller now leads it.

KTAV accepts submissions by email with a short note about you and the book plus the first pages or a professionally edited manuscript. Be aware that its own guidelines say the cost of publication and distribution starts at $6,000, so this is an author-funded route. Submission guidelines.

Spirituality publishers not reading new work right now

20. Harvest House Publishers

Bob Hawkins Sr. founded Harvest House in 1974, and it grew into one of the leading Christian book publishers, with a backlist of more than 1,200 titles in Christian living, Bible resources, gift books and children’s books.

Harvest House does not accept unsolicited manuscripts, proposals or self-published books. It works through agents and points new writers to manuscript services and Christian writers’ conferences. Submission policy.

21. Moody Publishers

Moody Publishers is the nonprofit publishing arm founded by D. L. Moody in Chicago in 1894 to make Christian books affordable. It has distributed more than 300 million books, from Bible commentary to spiritual growth.

Moody is currently not accepting any unsolicited manuscripts. When it does consider new work, it gives priority to literary agents, past Moody authors, Moody ministry associates and writers it meets at conferences. Submission policy.

22. Thomas Nelson

Thomas Nelson is one of the giants of Christian publishing and part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing. It publishes the New King James Version and authors from Billy Graham to Lysa TerKeurst and Dave Ramsey.

Thomas Nelson does not accept unsolicited manuscripts, so your route in is a literary agent. Submission policy.

23. Faithwords (Hachette Book Group)

FaithWords is the Hachette Book Group imprint, launched in 2001, that publishes leading pastoral and ministry authors such as Joyce Meyer, T. D. Jakes, Steven Furtick and Joel Osteen.

Hachette’s publishers can’t consider unsolicited manuscripts or queries, and the group recommends finding a literary agent first. Hachette submission FAQ.

24. Namaste Publishing

Namaste Publishing is the small independent house that first published Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now in 1997. It publishes nonfiction in spirituality, self-help, personal development and wellness.

Namaste is not accepting unsolicited submissions and reads agented nonfiction only, with no memoir and nothing previously published or self-published. Submission policy.

25. Beyond Words Publishing

Beyond Words started in 1983 with photographic coffee table books and became a spirituality publisher working in cooperation with Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Its catalog includes The Power and The Magic, and its wish list covers spiritual nonfiction, the esoteric, oracle decks and children’s nonfiction.

Beyond Words is not accepting submissions right now; its page says submissions are closed and to check back for a reopening. When it reads, it takes agent-free proposals and refuses AI-generated text or art. Submission page.

26. Affirmations

Affirmations Publishing House began in 1988 with a set of 24 cards made in Sydney and now creates affirmation cards, journals, diaries and gifts from Bellingen, New South Wales, sold through more than 1,200 stores.

Affirmations isn’t open to outside work: it says it isn’t collaborating with external artists at the moment and doesn’t publish products it hasn’t created itself. Affirmations.

27. Smallworks Press

Smallworks Press is a Las Vegas art and culture publisher founded in 2006 by artist James Stanford. Its catalog includes Shimmering Zen, which fuses Asian spiritual symbols with historic Las Vegas neon, so it fits a visual, art-led book on spiritual themes.

Smallworks isn’t reading now. It opens to manuscripts once a year, with dates announced on its contact page. Contact page.

Publishers with no posted submission guidelines

28. Alhidaayah

Al-Hidaayah has served the UK Muslim community from Birmingham since 1993. It has published more than 60 titles, many of them first English translations of classical Arabic works on aqidah, tafsir, sirah and hadith, along with children’s books and flashcards, and it sells a catalog of over 2,000 Islamic books.

Al-Hidaayah publishes no author guidelines, so approach it through its contact page. Contact page.

29. Kazi

Kazi Publications describes itself as the oldest Islamic publisher in North America. From its Chicago base it publishes and distributes books on Islamic history, Sufism and spirituality, including the Great Books of the Islamic World series and work by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Laleh Bakhtiar.

Kazi publishes no author guidelines, so approach it through its contact page. Contact page.

30. Dharma Publishing

Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku founded Dharma Publishing to preserve Tibet’s endangered Buddhist texts, and it now publishes from Berkeley, California. In 2026 it relaunched with national distribution through Red Wheel/Weiser and plans six to eight new titles a year, mainly Tarthang Tulku’s own works and commentaries.

Dharma publishes no author guidelines, and its list centers on its founder’s lineage. Dharma Publishing.

Final Thoughts

If your manuscript is ready, start with the eighteen publishers taking submissions now and match your book to their list: Shambhala, Wisdom or Monkfish for Buddhist and contemplative work, O-Books or Rockpool for mind, body and spirit, Zondervan or Westminster John Knox for Christian thought, Judaica Press, Feldheim or Koren for Jewish books, and Ta-Ha, Kube or White Thread for Islamic titles. Follow each publisher’s guidelines exactly, and if you write from a Christian perspective, see my guide to the best Christian book publishers accepting manuscripts. Next up, you may want to explore a guide on medical publishing companies.