The 2009 Blue Light Award is accepting submissions for their poetry chapbook contest. Read on..
Guidelines:
1. Blue Light Press is dedicated to the publication of poetry that is imagistic, inventive, emotionally honest, and pushes the language to a deeper level of insight. We are a collective of poets, and our books are artistically designed.
2. Please note our new address. To enter, send a manuscript of 50 to 80 pages of poetry, typed or printed with a laser or inkjet printer, to:
Diane Frank, Chief Editor
Blue Light Press
1862 – 45th Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94122
3. Submit your manuscript between September 1, 2008 and January 15, 2009.
4. Include a reading fee of $20.00 – check payable to Blue Light Press.
5. Include a self-addressed stamped envelope for results. We must have a SASE to correspond with you. No manuscript will be returned without a SASE.
6. Please do not send manuscripts by registered or certified mail, as this requires a trip to the post office. If you want confirmation of receipt, include a postcard with your manuscript. We are not strict about deadlines – if your manuscript comes a few days late, we will still read it.
7. The winner will be announced in May, 2009. The winning book will go into production in September or October of 2009, depending on our production schedule.
8. Winner will receive 10 copies of the book and a 30% royalty on book sales thereafter. The book will be distributed by Ingram, Amazon.com, any bookstore you suggest, and published in cooperation with our partner, 1st World Library.
9. If you win the contest, you will need to give us your manuscript on disk. Acceptable formats:
IBM – MSWord or RTF (Rich Test Format).
Macintosh – Clarisworks, Quark Express, Word, or RTF (Rich Test Format).
Books by Blue Light Press:
Recent books include poets Alice Rogoff, Stewart Florsheim, Michelle Demers, Stephen Schneider, Leah Shelleda, Nancy Tupper-Ling, Kevin Zepper, Ed Meek, Xue Di, Sarah McKinstry-Brown, Ken McCullough, and Diane Frank. In 2009, look for books by Nancy Berg, Suzanne Niedermeyer, and our new anthology.
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Hi,
I’m new to this site, but also confused. A chapbook is 50 to 80 pages? I thought chapbooks ran 10 to 30 pages. I was under the apparent illusion that a full length book of poems ran around 50 to 80 pages.
Shirley
I’m a fairly widely published American poet and writer living in France. I have one book of poetry published, Flying Over Greenland, and three manuscripts looking for publishers. One is a collection of 48 poems called The Eiger and other walls. Another is a 22 poem chapbook length collection called The Village–about life here in this French village. The third is a collection of eleven short stories called I Like Zinka. If any of these interest you, I’d be glad to send whatever you’d like to read.
I’d love to send you my manuscript, but all the comments I have seen are dated 2008 & 209. WHAT’S HAPPENING IN 2010??
Hi,
The poetry chapbook contest is one that we announced for another organization. You’d have to look at the organization name and do a search for it on Google.
All best,
Editors
Hi,
Please update the address of Blue Light Press on your website. We are now at 1563 – 45th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122.
Our website, http://www.bluelightpress.com has current guidelines posted.
Thanks so much for spreading the word about us!
Best regards,
Diane Frank, Chief Editor
Blue Light Press