Slough Press is an American small press publisher that specializes in unique literature in all genres, publishing since 1973 from Texas in Austin, Dallas, and College Station. The mission of Slough Press aims to publish novels/fiction, poetry, and non-fiction by writers from backgrounds that mainstream publishers ignore or marginalize. The press has a reputation for publishing authors from Cajun or Chicano backgrounds. Most Slough authors are from the American South or Southwest.