This was a tough,
challenging choice for Blood Pudding Press to make, as the contest entries were
filled with so many interesting, well-written, diverse offerings, brimming with
oodles of their own unique talent and flare.
Ultimately, the
two chosen to be published by Blood Pudding Press were the two I decided were
the best fit for my press, content-wise and stylistically and emotionally.
They offer utterly
unique, emotionally raw, gut wrenching, powerful pussy-centric poetry that
doesn’t fit into the mainstream – that doesn’t come across as academic OR as ‘outsider
writer’; that comes across as its own oozing entity.
The three semi-finalists -
1.
Paula Cary – Sister, Blood and Bone
2. Allie Marini Batts – Wake Up, Breathe, Keep
Breathing
3. Paul David Adkins– Pharmacology
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The TWO
WINNERS, who will have their chapbooks published by Blood Pudding Press -
- Lisa M. Cole - Renegade//Heart
- Lora Bloom - Poking through The
Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror
Big congratulations to
those two winners, whose chapbooks are unique and powerful and amazing and Blood
Pudding Press is honored to be publishing them soon.
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More details will be announced when
the winning chapbooks are formatted and created and brought to life!
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