NEW One of a Kind Art Pieces added to the Blood Pudding Press shop

Discombobulated Doll Head Three - DARK BROWN hair doll head on mini canvas painting with pelvic girdle and cicada wings - available HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/470070102/discombobulated-doll-head-three-dark?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Brain Sludge - Itty Bitty Painting Collage Hybrid - one of a kind abstract art with acrylic paint and textural sludge - available HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/470066548/brain-sludge-itty-bitty-painting-collage?ref=listing-shop-header-2

My Sort of Light Storm - One of a Kind Original Painting, Mixed Media, Textural Hybrid Creature - Different Colors and Textures - available HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/470295674/my-sort-of-light-storm-one-of-a-kind?ref=listing-shop-header-0

April Poetry Events and Blood Pudding Press and chapbooks!

Printing and designing chapbooks in preparation for two upcoming poetry events! 

This coming Friday April 8, Juliet Cook will be the Visiting Artist at Bowling Green State University (reading poetry and answering questions) and will have some of her own chapbooks and some Blood Pudding Press chapbooks along for the ride.

AND she will soon be mailing a batch of Blood Pudding Press chapbooks to a new first time event in Virginia called PoetCon, happening Saturday April 23 from 1-10PM 

https://www.facebook.com/PoetCon-952868151417662/

So if you happen to be a poet in Virginia who will be attending PoetCon, Blood Pudding Press chapbooks will be there too.

And of course, anyone who will not be in Bowling Green or Virginia can get your chapbooks (and other artsy goodies) from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

Soft Spots In The Dark

A NEW one-of-a kind painting/collage art hybrid creature has been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop! - "Soft Spots In The Dark".

Available for more perusal (and/or purchase) within the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/266326795/soft-spots-in-the-dark-painting-collage?ref=shop_home_active_1

Two Discombobulated Doll Heads

Two new discombobulated doll head creatures currently live in the Blood Pudding Press shop.

-Discombobulated Doll Head One - https://www.etsy.com/listing/264790417/discombobulated-doll-head-one-blond-hair?ref=shop_home_active_1

-Discombobulated Doll Head Two - https://www.etsy.com/listing/264790497/discombobulated-doll-head-two-dark-brown?ref=listing-shop-header-0

My Blood Pudding Press will not be running a chapbook contest this year BUT does have a special offer this week...

Since this is around the time of year when Blood Pudding Press has been running its poetry chapbook contest the last few years (in order to choose the few chapbooks to publish the next year), I've started to receive questions about when the contest will be taking place this year, when we'll be reading chapbook submissions, and how to submit to Blood Pudding Press.

Here are the short answers.

-BLOOD PUDDING PRESS IS NOT GOING TO RUN A CHAPBOOK CONTEST THIS YEAR in order to choose which chapbooks to publish next year.

-BLOOD PUDDING PRESS IS NOT ACCEPTING CHAPBOOK SUBMISSIONS AT THIS TIME, unless I specifically solicit work from you or ask you to send me something for some reason.

-Blood Pudding Press is tentatively planning to take a mini-hiatus for 2016. What's a mini-hiatus? Well, the press will still exist and the chapbooks we've published will still be available, but instead of directing lots of time, attention, and energy on reading lots of new submissions, I will focus on continuing to support and promote the work that has already been published and considering how I might want to re-direct and re-work my press for the future.

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Thirteen Myna Birds, the online blog style lit mag semi-associated with Blood Pudding Press, is still accepting submissions right now, although that forum might also be re-worked a bit in the coming year.

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The Blood Pudding Press shop is still open as of right now, although that might be re-located to a different space within the coming year.

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For one week, from NOW UNTIL (and including) DECEMBER 13, Blood Pudding Press will be running an extra-special holiday offer.

With any purchase you make that is $5 or more (of a chapbook, a chapbook set, art, or anything else), enter Coupon Code HOLIDAY2015 for 30% off your purchase.

AND in addition to that, each purchaser will be receiving one FREE ITEM too, as long as you note which FREE ITEM you'd like.

You can chose either a mini art piece OR one of the following Blood Pudding Press chapbooks:

"Bone of My Bone" by Nicole Rollender

"Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall

"Fiddle Is Flood" by Lauren Gordon

"They Talk About Death" by Alessandra Bava

"Stick Up" by Paul David Adkins

"House On Fire" by Susan Yount

"RENEGADE//HEART" by Lisa M. Cole

"Sister, Blood and Bone" by Paula Cary

"Poking through the Fabric..." by Lora Bloom

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Visit the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE, to take advantage of this special offer - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress