Submit your manuscript!

The 16th Annual Floating Bridge Press Poetry Chapbook Competition is open for submissions until February 16, 2011. If you are a current resident of Washington State, you may submit a chapbook manuscript of up to 24 pages of poetry with a $12 entry fee. The winner receives $500, a Seattle reading in September, and 15 copies of the prize-winning chapbook. Our books are beautiful, archival-quality, perfect-bound, and collectable.

Previous winners include Joannie Kervran Stangeland, Nance Van Winckel, Donna Waidtlow, Molly Tenenbaum, Bart Baxter, Chris Forhan, Joseph Green, Kelli Russell Agodon, Michael Bonacci, Timothy Kelly, Annette Spaulding-Convy, Holly J. Hughes, Nancy Pagh, Katharine Whitcomb, and Laura Read.

Floating Bridge Press considers all individual poems for inclusion in our annual journal, Floating Bridge Review.

For complete guidelines and a look at our titles, please visit our web site.

Submission Are Open!

Just to gently remind you that Floating Bridge Press is open for submissions and looking forward to reading your chapbook manuscript.

We publish one chapbook each year, the winner of our annual chapbook competition (this year's winner is The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You by Laura Read of Spokane). In addition to our chapbook, we publish one issue of Floating Bridge Review. which includes some of our favorite individual poems from the chapbook competition. So you have two opportunities for publication!

Please refer to our guidelines and note that we only accept submissions from Washington State.

We are Accepting Submissions for our 2009 Chapbook Award

We invite submissions of chapbook manuscripts until February 15, 2009 from all Washington State Poets.

The winner receives $500 and 15 copies of the winning book, published in Fall 2009, along with a Seattle reading. Finalists receive $50 and a reading. All entrants receive a copy of the winning chapbook.

In addition, individual poems will be considered for inclusion in the next issue of Floating Bridge Review, to be published in Summer 2009.

Our guidelines are not complicated, but they are specific. Please review them at our website, http://www.scn.org/floatingbridge/submit.html. The entry fee is $12.

Former winners include Nancy Pagh, Holly Hughes, Annette Spaulding-Convy, Timothy Kelly, Michael Bonacci, Kelli Russell Agodon, Joseph Green, Chris Forhan, Molly Tenenbaum, Nance Van Winckel, Bart Baxter, Donna Waidtlow, Joannie Kervran.

We look forward to reading your work.
The Editors