CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS
2016 FINISHING LINE PRESS OPEN CHAPBOOK COMPETITION
A prize of $1,000 and publication for a chapbook-length poetry collection in perfect-bound print edition. Ingram Group distribution.
Open to ALL. International entries are welcome. Multiple submissions are accepted.
The top-ten finalists will be offered publication. All entries will be considered for publication.
Submit up to 30 pages of poetry, PLUS bio, acknowledgments, SASE and cover letter with a $15 entry fee per manuscript submission. To submit online https://finishinglinepress.submittable.com/submit/63531,
or mail entry and fee to
Open Chapbook Competition
Finishing Line Press
P O Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324
USA
NEW DEADLINE! Postmark Deadline: October 31, 2016
A self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) with the correct postage must accompany all mailed 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 CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: FULL-LENGTH POETRY BOOK MANUSCRIPTS
Finishing Line Press will gladly accept full-length poetry book manuscripts, and we do not require a reading fee/processing fee for full-length poetry manuscripts shipped to us via regular post. We are specifically looking for poetry book manuscripts up to 100 pages and no less than 48 pages of poetry. Please mail (via regular post) your manuscript to:
FLP POETRY BOOK CALL
Finishing Line Press
P O Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324
USA
If you prefer submitting online, there is a $3 processing fee. (It’s cheaper to submit electronically—save the stamps, save the trees, and save the SASE.) To submit online:
https://finishinglinepress.submittable.com/submit/51831
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GENERAL CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: We read manuscripts in November. There is no fee for manuscripts submitted via regular post during the month of November. If you would like to submit outside of the month of November, please see guidelines below:
Online submissions: please use submittable link: http://finishinglinepress.submittable.com/submit
We read general submissions year round. Manuscript must be a paper copy. Please include a $15 reading fee with your manuscript. Submit up to 30 pages of poetry, PLUS bio, acknowledgments, SASE and cover letter (you can pay by check or money order.) or submit online using our online submissions manager: https://finishinglinepress.submittable.com/submit
Send to
Finishing Line Press
P O Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324
USA
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Thank you to everyone who entered the competition.
2016 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition Results
367 entries
Leah Maines was the final judge.
Winner: Kate Peper of Fairfax, California for her manuscript Dipped in Black Water
Top Ten Finalists in the New Women’s Voices Series (All ten finalists are offered publication in the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Series)
1st Honorable Mention: Loretta Oleck of Ossining, New York
2nd Honorable Mention: Rachel Kann of Los Angeles, California
3rd Honorable Mention: Maia Evrona of Framingham, Massachusetts
4. Alexandra Barylski of Palo Alto, California
5. Alice Bolstridge of Presque Isle, Maine
6. Sarah Bartlett of Burlington, Vermont
7. Marina Carreira of Union, New Jersey
8. Catherine Higgins-Moore of Brooklyn, New York
9. Deborah Kahan Kolb of Bronx, New York
10. L.J. Sysko of Wilmington, Delaware
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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 won the 2007 Belles Lettres Book of the Year award 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.
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