Blood Pudding Press
will soon be accepting submissions for its latest poetry chapbook contest!
(starting one
week from today - from November 20, 2014 - December 20, 2014)
Blood Pudding Press is seeking two new
poetry chapbooks to publish in 2015.
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 different styles, but some of its primary interests involve mind
and body, overly personal, oddly emotional, confessional, dark/light hybrids,
abstract art, quirky humor, contemporary horror alterations, kinky
amalgamations, grotesque treats, and volatility.
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 20, 2014 through December 20, 2014.
-
At least three 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 info, 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 sometime in January 2015. The first winning chapbook will most likely be
published in early March. The second
winning chapbook will most likely be published in late May or early June.
A
bit more information about who has been published by Blood Pudding Press in the
past can also be viewed below.
If
you have any particular questions or concerns, feel free to ask or let me know.
Best,
Juliet Cook, Blood Pudding Press
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The three winning chapbooks created
in 2014, as a result of last year's contest were "House on Fire" by
Susan Yount, "Stick Up" by Paul David Adkins, and "They Talk
About Death" by Alessandra Bava. (The three finalists were Jay Sizemore, Donavon Davidson, and Kelly
Andrews). All three of those 2014 chapbooks can be further perused and/or
purchased at the Blood Pudding Press shop, here - http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress.
The two
winning chapbooks created in 2013 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 finalists were Paula Cary, Allie Marini Batts, and Paul David Adkins –
and the first finalist's chapbook was also published by Blood Pudding Press,
“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.
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 finalists 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, Daniel M. Shapiro,
Susan Slaviero, and many more.
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Thirteen
Myna Birds is the online oddly haunted little sister of Blood Pudding Press, has
published numerous different writers here, and is always accepting submissions
- http://13myna.blogspot.com/
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