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2010 NEW WOMEN’S VOICES

CHAPBOOK COMPETITION

2010 NEW WOMEN’S VOICES

CHAPBOOK COMPETITION

A prize of $1,000 and publication for a chapbook-length poetry collection.
Open to women who have never before published a full-length poetry collection.
Previous chapbook publication does not disqualify.

International entries are welcome. Multiple submissions are accepted.

Leah Maines will final judge.


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 (pay by check, money order or pay online to pay using your credit card)

Deadline: Feb. 28, 2010 (DEADLINE EXTENDED ) POSTMARK

NWV

Finishing Line Press
P O Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324

To 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.

Leah Maines has served as the senior editor for Finishing Line Press since she took over the press in 2002. She has edited over 550 poetry collections, including several award-winning titles. She is former Poet-in-Residence of Northern Kentucky University (funded in part by the Kentucky Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities). Maines is the author of two poetry books. Her first book was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Williams Carlos Williams Book Award (Poetry Society of America). Looking to the East with Western Eyes, New Women's Voices Series, No. 1 (Finishing Line Press, 1998) reached #10 in the "Cincinnati/Tri-State Best Sellers List" (Cincinnati Enquirer), and is now in its fourth printing. Her most recent collection, Beyond the River, (KWC Press, 2002, 1st edition) won the Kentucky Writers' Coalition Poetry Chapbook Competition in 2002.

See our Feb. Book of the Month:

Mistress, Reclining by Cherene Sherrard

WINNER OF THE 2009 NEW WOMEN'S VOICES PRIZE IN POETRY
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE WINNER OF THE 2009 OPEN CHAPBOOK COMPETITION ($1,000 prize): Tessa Kale of Yonkers, NY for THE HUDSON LINE.

1st HM: Sam Rasnake

2nd HM: Kwoya N. Fagin

3rd HM: Don Colburn

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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

To 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.