Chapbook manuscript submissions for this
contest will be accepted from September 3, 2012 – October 15, 2012 – with winners to be announced within late October or early November (ideally,
winners shall be announced circa Halloween).
Three
semi-finalists and two winners will be chosen and announced. Each of the two winners will have their
chapbook published and will receive 13 free copies of their chapbook.
Of the two winning chapbooks chosen, one
will be published in late 2012 (most likely mid-December) and one will be published in early 2013
(January or February).
There is a $5.00 entry fee per manuscript
for entering this contest; these entry fees will be used to purchase supplies for publishing and
designing the winning chapbooks. The fee is payable to the editor’s Paypal
account at Julietcoo@gmail.com
(although this is by far the preferred form of payment, if you do not know how
to pay this way or if you would like to make an alternative payment arrangement,
you may contact the editor via that email address).
After
paying your entry fee, please email your collection of poems to Julietcoo@gmail.com. Please write BPP
Chapbook Contest – (your name) in the subject line. Include your manuscript title, your name,
your contact data, and a brief bio in the body of your email – and then your
manuscript itself can either be included in the body or attached as a Microsoft
Word Doc or Docx.
Blood Pudding Press will consider poetry
chapbook collections of 10-25 poems (approximately 15-30 pages). Some of the poems may be previously
published, but the collection as a whole should not have been published
elsewhere before. I will consider
individual chapbooks AND collaborative chapbooks by 2 different writers. See the Blood Pudding Press online shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress
and the Blood Pudding Press blog at http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/
for more information about the press’s sensibilities and design style.
A bit
more Blood Pudding press information can be perused below.
If you
have any particular questions or concerns, please feel free to ask or let me
know.
Best, Juliet
Cook, Blood Pudding Press
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Blood
Pudding Press enjoys offerings that ooze like creamy innards of questionable
dessert products and discolored flesh. Visible nipples. Sharp things, shiny things, furry things, fun
things, and unapologetic things. Railroad track debris
and purring pussies. Messy, but not uncooked. Strangely-baked, sexy, queasy,
volatile.
Icing
bags, scars, deep sea creatures, love, lust, longing, burlesque, grotesque,
flirty and at least a little bit improper...
The two
winning chapbooks created as a result of the first Blood Pudding Press contest
were ‘At the night, the dead’ by Lisa Ciccarello and ‘The Spare Room’ by Dana
Guthrie Martin (the three runner ups were Nicole Steinberg, Donald Dunbar, and
John Rocco).
Other
poets published by Blood Pudding Press have included Kyle Simonsen, Letizia Merello, Christine Hamm, Kristy
Bowen, Kenneth Pobo, Michalle Gould, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Adam Fieled ,
Brooklyn Copeland, Gina Abelkop, Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Melissa
Culbertson, Nathan Logan, Nicole Cartwright Denison, Peg Duthie, Susan Slaviero, Rebecca Loudon, Daniela Olszewska, Rachel
Kendall, J.R. Pearson, Jayne Pupek, Melissa Severin, Donora Hillard, Sean
Kilpatrick, Derek Motion, T.A. Noonan, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Matina
Stamatakis and many more.
The two
most recently published Blood Pudding Press chapbooks were ‘Letters From Room
27 of the Grand Midway Hotel’ by Margaret Bashaar and the collective chapbook,
‘Fainting Couch Idioglossia’, offering individual and collaborative poems by Margaret Bashaar, Kelly Boyker, Daniel M. Shapiro, Jessy
Randall, Suzanne Grazyna, Kathy Burkett, Douglas Burkett, PoetJoe H. Gallagher,
Juliet Cook, and Michael Smith.
