Before submitting your poetry innards, please read the details below to garner an idea of our desires.
Blood Pudding Press is an itty bitty indie press handled by one woman (poet/publisher/artist Juliet Cook) and does not particularly care whether or not other poets are academic, non-academic, outsider writers, indie writers or part of any specific writing scene, as long as they are active in their own way – and passionately entwined in artistic creation, writing, and reading (more than just their own poetry).
Blood Pudding Press cares about poetic individuals (and collaborators) with their own unique writing stylistics and experimentation. The press is open to oodles of different styles, but some of its primary interests (content-wise) involve mind and body, overly personal, oddly emotional, dark/light hybrids, abstract art, quirky humor, contemporary horror alterations, kinky amalgamations, grotesque treats, flirty, volatile, and possibly contradictory.
Blood Pudding Press likes the number 3 (and 13) so…
Blood Pudding Press will consider poetry collections of 13-23 poems (less than 30 pages please). Some of the poems may be previously published, but the collection as a whole should not have been published elsewhere before. We will delightfully consider individual chapbooks and collaborative chapbooks by 2 or 3 different writers.
If that piques your interest, here are the details of entering the Blood Pudding Press contest:
-Submissions will be accepted from November 13, 2013 through December 13, 2013.
-Three semi-finalists and two winners will be chosen. Each of the two winners will have their chapbooks published and will receive thirteen free copies of their chapbook.
-There is a $5.00 entry fee per manuscript for entering this contest; this entry fee money will be used to purchase supplies for publishing and designing the winning chapbooks. The fee is payable to the editor’s Paypal account at Julietcoo@gmail.com (although Paypal is the preferred form of payment, if you do not have a Paypal account and would rather pay by check, you may contact the editor via that email address).
-After paying your entry fee, please email your collection of poems to Julietcoo@gmail.com. Please write BPP Chapbook Contest – (your name) in the subject line. Include your manuscript title, your name, your contact data, and a brief bio in the body of your email. Attach the manuscript itself as a Microsoft Word Doc or Docx.
-The winners will be announced near the beginning of the New Year (early January 2014). The first winning chapbook will most likely be published in late January or early February. The second winning chapbook will most likely be published in late March or early April.
For more information about Blood Pudding Press’s sensibilities and design style, you can peruse the Blood Pudding Press online shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress .
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The two winning chapbooks created in 2013,
as a result of last year’s contest were “RENEGADE//HEART” by Lisa M. Cole and “Poking
through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in
the Mirror” by Lora Bloom. (The three runner ups were Paula Cary, Allie Marini
Batts, and Paul David Adkins – and the first runner ups chapbook was published
by Blood Pudding Press too, “Sister, Blood and Bone” by Paula Cary). All three
of those 2013 chapbooks can be further perused and/or purchased at the Blood
Pudding Press shop, here - http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress.
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The two winning chapbooks created as a
result of the first Blood Pudding Press contest were “At night, the dead” by
Lisa Ciccarello and “The Spare Room” by Dana Guthrie Martin. (The three runner
ups were Nicole Steinberg, Donald Dunbar, and John Rocco).
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Other poets published by Blood Pudding
Press have included Gina Abelkop, Margaret Bashaar, Kristy Bowen, Kelly Boyker,
Jill Alexander Essbaum, Suzanne Grazyna, Christine Hamm, Sean Kilpatrick, Misti
Rainwater-Lites, Rebecca Loudon, T.A.
Noonan, Daniela Olszewska, J.R. Pearson,
Kenneth Pobo, Jayne Pupek, Jenny Sadre-Orafai,
Melissa Severin, Daniel M.
Shapiro, Susan Slaviero, Matina Stamatakis and many more.
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Thirteen Myna Birds is the online oddly
haunted little sister of Blood Pudding Press and has published numerous
different writers here - http://13myna.blogspot.com/ .
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4 comments:
Do you create covers or should authors submit with poems?
I usually create covers, but if the poet has a specific cover art idea in mind, I'm certainly willing to consider it.
You don't need to submit the cover art with your chapbook content though. That's something that can be worked on later with the accepted chapbooks.
I'm curious about rights, copyrights, etc. ??
With chapbooks published by Blood Pudding Press, the rights/copyrights to your individual poems remain all yours.
But as with almost all presses, if you submit any of those poems elsewhere, you should let them know where the poems were previously published.
Many presses are unwilling to re-publish something that already appeared in a chapbook - but on the other hand, some online presses are willing to re-publish work that already appeared in print,as long as that is noted when you submit to them.
Blood Pudding Press has no desire to re-publish something that was already been published in its entirety in a chapbook format (for example a chapbook that was published by another press, but is no longer available and now you'd like it to be re-published - that would not be Blood Pudding Press's style - we want to publish NEW collections), but we are fine with the individual poems within the collection having been previously published in various print and online sources, as long as that is noted in a credits/Acknowledgements section.
Sorry it took me a few days to respond to your question. I don't receive many questions under my blog posts, so I don't check for questions here on a daily basis. If you have any other questions for me now or in the future, feel free to email me at Julietcoo@gmail.com
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