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2009 OPEN CHAPBOOK COMPETITION |
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A prize of $1,000 and publication will be awarded by Finishing Line Press for a chapbook-length poetry collection. Open to ALL. Previous publication does not disqualify. All entries will be considered for publication. The top-ten finalists will be offered publication. Submit up to 26 pages of poetry, PLUS bio, acknowledgments, SASE and cover letter with a $15 entry fee by Charles Pratt will final judge. Winner will be announced on our website in the fall: www.finishinglinepress.com Send to: OPEN CHAPBOOK COMPETITION To pay the entry fee with your credit card please use the buy now button below. Please print out the receipt and enclose the paypal verification/receipt with your entry. International entries are welcome. Multiple submissions are accepted. If you prefer, it is fine to send a check or money order with your submission instead of using the buy now button . Pay entry fee with this button (please print out confirmation and mail with entry): About the Judge: Charles W. Pratt, a former English teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy and elsewhere, has for the past 25 years with his wife Joan owned and operated a small apple orchard in southeastern New Hampshire. His first book of poems, In the Orchard (with drawings by Arthur Balderacchi, Tidal Press), was selected as a Notable Book for 1986 by the American Library Association. For many years he served as coordinator of the Selection Committee for the George Bennett Fellowship, the Phillips Exeter writer-in-residency.
A self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) with the correct postage must accompany all manuscripts. A SASE is needed for any kind of response, even if the writer does not want the material returned.
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New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition Results
Final Judge: Carol Hamilton
Winner:
Mistress, Reclining by Cherene Sherrard of Madison, WI
Top Ten Finalists:
- 1. Darla Crist of West Terre Haute, IN: 1st HM
- 2. Julie M. Wade of Louisville, KY: 2nd HM
- 3. Kathleen Kirk of Normal, IL: 3rd HM
- 4. Anne C. Whitehouse of New York, NY
- 5. Pauline Uchmanowicz of Rosendale, NY
- 6. Lizzie Hutton of Ann Arbor, MI
- 7. Reeves Keyworth of Tucson, AZ
- 8. Gail Hanlon of Portsmouth, NH
- 9. Chloë Joan López of Cambridge, MA
- 10. Rachael Richardson of Greensboro, NC
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CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS
GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We accept general submissions and read year round. To submit your manuscript without entering our chapbook competition:
Submit up to 26 pages of poetry, PLUS bio, acknowledgments, SASE and cover letter with a $12 reading fee to
The Editors
Finishing Line Press
P.O. Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324
Pay reading fee with this button (please print out confirmation and mail with submission) :
If you prefer, it is fine to send a check or money order with your submission
instead of using the buy now button.
All manuscripts are selected by editorial process. Response time is 3-6 months.
A self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) with the correct postage must accompany all manuscripts. A SASE is needed for any kind of response, even if the writer does not want the material returned.
A good photocopy of the manuscript or a computer printout, rather than the original, should be sent. Finishing Line Press is not responsible for lost manuscripts.
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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher.
Recent winners and notables: Congratulations to poet Cheryl Loetscher and Finishing Line Press for Winning the New England Poetry Club's Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award (for the best chapbook published in the preceding year) for the Finishing Line Chapbook, Unclaimed Baggage, Judged by Harris and Svetlana Sussman; Tania Runyan's poetry collection Delicious Air has been selected as the Belles Lettres Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature. Brenda Kay Ledford's Shew Bird Mountain won the 2007 PAUL GREEN MULTIMEDIA AWARD. The Paul Green Multimedia Award is given by the North Carolina Society of Historians. Marianne Worthington’s Larger Bodies than Mine (NWV Series) won the 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association. Anne Wilson won the San Diego Book Award (for "a book of poetry ") for her book SOLEA! Congratulations to BG THURSTON author of Saving the Lamb for making the “Highly Recommended” list of the 8th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards; Frederick Smock's Sonnets was a finalist in the Kentucky Literary Awards for excellence in poetry. Linda Annas Ferguson’s chapbook, Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, won an honorable mention in the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Book Award of the Poetry Council of NC. Kaye Bache-Snyder won first place in the National Federation of Press Women’s annual competition, in category 75, creative verse for her book PINNACLES AND PLAINS. Carolyn Howard-Johnson was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Silver Award for Excellence for her chapbook of poetry, Tracings. Abigail Gramig's poem "Requiem" (first published by Finishing Line Press in her chapbook DUSTING THE PIANO) is included in Billy Collins' new anthology 180 More : Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by BILLY COLLINS (Editor). Julene Tripp Weaver author of Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues; George Held, author of Grounded and The Art of Writing and Others, GARY L. LARK, author of Men At the Gates, Joyce Greenberg Lott,author of DEAR MRS. DALLOWAY, and to Paula Sergi author of FAMILY BUSINESS and John Brantingham author of PUTTING IN A WINDOW were all recently featured on Garrison Keillor's THE WRITER'S ALMANAC radio show. Karen Zaborowski Duffy’s (author of Giving in to the Smoke) poetry was featured on the PBS show The Newshour with Jim Lehrer . Michael Milburn’s poem “Preserved” from his FLP chapbook The Blessings of Motion and Silence appeared in Mary Karr’s weekly Book World feature, “Poet’s Choice.” In her column Ms. Karr picks a poem (or poems) each week and introduces it briefly. Book World is syndicated to a number of other papers, including the Washington Post Book World in The Washington Post National Weekly, washingtonpost.com, on-line data services and microfiche and CD-ROM versions of The Washington Post. Also appearing in The New Yorker (online only). Finishing Line Press has also been featured in Poet's Market Insider Report.