Autumn House Press

TITLE

Autumn House Press

TYPE

publication

GENRE

poetry, fiction, nonfiction

DESCRIPTION

Autumn House Press is a nonprofit corporation registered in the state of Pennsylvania whose mission is to publish and promote poetry and other fine literature.

• The press will concentrate on publishing the work of excellent contemporary writers who have a following among readers, but whose work has been overlooked by commercial publishers.
• In the belief that a book is not only a readable text but also an object of art, the press is dedicated to producing beautifully designed, well-manufactured books on acid-free paper, as well as electronic texts of comparable quality.
• To these ends, the press will seek out the best possible book designers, illustrators, poets, writers, and editors.
• This dedication to quality will, however, be balanced against considerations of cost in order to make the books affordable to all.

DEADLINE

June 30

ENTRY FEE

$30

ELIGIBILITY

PRIZE

• The winners will receive book publication, $1,000 advance against royalties, and a $1,500 travel/publicity grant to promote his or her book.

GUIDELINES

• Fiction submissions should be approximately 200-300 pages. All fiction sub-genres (short stories, short-shorts, novellas, or novels) or any combination of sub-genres are eligible.

METHOD OF SUBMISSION

https://autumnhousepress.submittable.com/submit

SITE

http://www.autumnhouse.org/contest-submissions/

CONTACT

info@autumnhouse.org

Five Oaks Press

TITLE

Five Oaks Press

TYPE

publication

GENRE

poetry

DESCRIPTION

Five Oaks Press is a publisher of poetry chapbooks and full-length collections. We are located in New York State’s Hudson Valley.

DEADLINE

November 1

ENTRY FEE

Submissions can be made for free by email to editor@five-oaks-press.com or through our Submittable account ($3 convenience fee):

ELIGIBILITY

PRIZE

publication

GUIDELINES

For chapbooks, please send 16-25 pages of poems (connected by a theme or an aesthetic) as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf attachment. While individual poems may have appeared in print or online publications, the manuscript as a whole should not be previously published. If any poems have been published elsewhere, please include an Acknowledgements page. In the body of the email (or in the Submittable box labeled “cover letter”), include a brief cover letter indicating your involvement in the field of creative writing through critique groups, readings, open mics, or workshops.

For full-length collections, which would be about 45-60 pages of poems, please follow the same instructions.

METHOD OF SUBMISSION

https://fiveoakspress.submittable.com/submit.

SITE

http://five-oaks-press.com

CONTACT

Address questions to editor(at)five-oaks-press(dot)com.

Minerva Rising – “Dare to Be” Poetry Chapbook Contest

TITLE

“Dare to Be” Poetry Chapbook Contest

TYPE

book contest

GENRE

poetry

DESCRIPTION

Dare to Be, Dare to Write, Dare to Dare — Wow us with your interpretation of what Dare to Be means to you. Fill our Submittable account with the beatings of your poetic hearts.

DEADLINE

November 1

ENTRY FEE

$20

ELIGIBILITY

PRIZE

$250 and 10 copies.

GUIDELINES

We are asking for a collection of poems (14 – 36 pages). Each poem should start on a new page and each page of your submission must include the title of the work and a page number in the header. Please include a table of contents and an acknowledgements page, which should appear at the end of your submission.

Be sure that you remove all identifying information, such as your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address, from your submitted work.

METHOD OF SUBMISSION

https://minervarising.submittable.com/submit

SITE

http://minervarising.com/submissions/chapbook-submissions/

CONTACT

Bull City Press – The Frost Place Chapbook Competition

TITLE

The Frost Place Chapbook Competition

TYPE

fellowship

GENRE

poetry

DESCRIPTION

The Frost Place, a nonprofit center for poetry and the arts at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, NH, in partnership with Bull City Press, invites submissions to The Fourth Annual Frost Place Chapbook Competition Sponsored by Bull City Press.

DEADLINE

January 4

ENTRY FEE

$28

ELIGIBILITY

The Frost Place Chapbook Competition Sponsored by Bull City Press is open to any poet writing in English.  Simultaneous submissions are permissible, but entrants are asked to notify the competition administrators through the competition website immediately if a manuscript becomes committed elsewhere.

Please do not submit to this competition if you are close enough to the final judge, Afaa Michael Weaver, that his integrity, or the integrity of Bull City Press and The Frost Place, would be called into question should you be selected as the winner. You may query us if you have questions regarding this matter. Please query by email to frost@frostplace.org.

PRIZE

The winner’s chapbook will be published by Bull City Press in Summer 2016.  The winner will receive 10 complimentary copies (from a print run of 200), and a $250 prize.  The winner will also receive a full scholarship to attend the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place, August 2016, including room and board (valued at approximately $1,500), and will give a featured reading from the chapbook at the Seminar.

Additionally, the chapbook fellow will have the option to spend one week living and writing in The Frost Place House-Museum in September 2016 (peak fall foliage season in the White Mountains) at a time agreed upon by the fellow and the Frost Place

GUIDELINES

Entries must be submitted between October 1, 2015 and January 5, 2016.  All entries must be submitted to our online submissions manager.  Entries submitted by e-mail, fax, or US mail are not permitted and will be disqualified.  Submission with identification on the manuscript will be disqualified.

Entries must be accompanied by a $28.00 entry fee.  Entrants may submit multiple manuscripts, but must pay a $28.00 entry fee for each manuscript submitted.

Do not include your name on any of the pages of the manuscript file. The first page of the manuscript should include the title of the collection only.

Manuscripts should have a page count (poems only, not including title page, table of contents, acknowledgements, or other items) of 20 to 25 pages.

Manuscripts should be submitted in rich text (.rtf) or Microsoft Word (.doc & .docx) format only.  Manuscripts submitted in another file format are not permitted and will be disqualified. Manuscript revisions are not permitted during the competition.

The author’s name should not appear on the manuscript.

METHOD OF SUBMISSION

https://thefrostplace.submittable.com/submit

SITE

http://frostplace.org/chapbook-contest/

CONTACT

Wells College Press – Poetry Chapbook Contest

TITLE

Chapbook Competition

TYPE

publication

GENRE

poetry

DESCRIPTION

In honor of the gorgeous location of the Wells College Press, right on the shore of Cayuga Lake in New York’s Finger Lakes region, the chapbook series focuses on poems with a strong sense of place. We understand place to be geographical, social, political, spiritual, etc.

DEADLINE

November 30

ENTRY FEE

$20 payable to Wells College Press, with “WCPress entry fee” on the memo line.

ELIGIBILITY

PRIZE

The author of the chosen manuscript will receive 20 copies of the letterpress printed, hand-sewn chapbook. The author will also be invited to read from her or his new chapbook at Wells College in the fall of 2016. The poet will receive a $500 honorarium + room and board for the reading.

We print editions of 100 signed and numbered copies. We craft every aspect of our chapbooks individually and obsessively: Prior chapbooks have included all type and ornament cast in metal at the Bixler Letterfoundry in Skaneatles specifically for those projects. Our books also feature hand-set title pages and hand-sewn bindings. The winning chapbook will continue this tradition of craftsmanship.

GUIDELINES

·      18-30 manuscript pages (with no more than one poem per page)

·      Individual poems may have been published in periodicals, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. An acknowledgments page is optional (though it will be included in the final chapbook).

·      Co-authored manuscripts and translated manuscripts are welcome.

·      Close personal friends of the judges, as well as current or former students of the judges, are ineligible.

·      Multiple submissions are welcome, but each submission must be accompanied by a separate entry fee.

·      Please limit your identifying information to your cover letter; the manuscript itself must be anonymous, as the judging will be blind.

METHOD OF SUBMISSION

https://wellscollegepress.submittable.com/submit

SITE

http://wellscollegepress.org

CONTACT

E-mail your questions: bookartscenter@wells.edu