Some of you might be familiar with us under our previous imprint, Heliotrope: A Writer's Summer Solstice. At the present time, we are no longer publishing our annual journal, but we are back in the business of chapbooks. We publish two poetry chapbooks per year, with deadlines of April 30 and October 31. They will be published on linen paper with an artist-designed and handstitched cover. The entry fee is $15.00 per manuscript; total prize is $250 plus 25 copies of book.
Please see contest guidelines below for the poetry chapbook contest offered by Gribble Press.
1. Send your chapbook manuscript of 20-30 pages of poetry.
2. Paginate ms. and include table of contents.
3. Individual pieces may have been published in literary journals, but the ms.has not been previously published before as a book. Include acknowledgement page for previously published pieces.
4. Send two cover pages, one with your name and contact information, one with the name of manuscript only.
5. Attach check or money order in the amount of $15.00 made to the order of Gribble Press.
6. Include an SASE for notification of winner
7. May be a simultaneous submission, but we want immediate notification if accepted by another press.
8. You may submit multiple submissions, but please include a $15.00 entry fee for each submission.
9. Manuscript must be postmarked by April 30, 2009 . Winner will be announced by June 1, 2009.
10. May submit ms.electronically at Gribble@greymaredit.com, sending check through regular mail @ Chapbook Contest, Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA 99209-0307. Send through regular U.S. mail. If you want notification of receipt, include a stamped postcard, no postal return receipts, please.
11. May also mail hardcopy to Chapbook Contest, Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA 99209-0307. If you want notification of receipt, include a stamped postcard, no postal return receipts, please.
Note: We will run a contest with the intent to act ethically, provide clear guidelines, and make our process as transparent as possible. Our goal is to publish the most exciting and energetic literary work available.
Contact us at Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA 99209-0307 or email Gribble@greymaredit.com
Previously published chapbooks:
*Winner* We are pleased to announce that Nancy Culp is the winner of the Gribble Press non-fiction chapbook contest of 2008 for her manuscript, Empty Bottles.
Although Nancy Culp is new to creative writing, she is no stranger to the arts. She works in many visual mediums: painting pastels, acrylics, and ceramics, in addition to teaching ceramic painting and beginning drawing classes. She presently lives in Spokane, Washington, and spends as much time as possible at the cabin her grandfather built on Lake Chelan. To order copy, send check for $10.00 to Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA 99209-0307.
Walt Peterson is the author of three chapbooks of poetry. His last, In the Waiting Room of the Speedy Muffler King, won the Acorn-Rykheyser Award. In addition, he has a memoir, articles on cars and photographs published and does writing workshops, currently, with Franciscan nuns and incarcerated men at SCI Pine Grove in Indiana, PA. o To order copy, send check for $10.00 to Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA 99209-0307.
Roy Seeger of Kalamazoo, Michigan is the winner of the Gribble Press poetry chapbook contest of 2007 for his manuscript, Garden of Improbable Birds. Roy Seeger teaches English part time at Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo Valley Community College. HIs poetry has been featured on Verse Daily and has appeared in such journals as Verse, The Laurel Review, Gulf Coast, The Mississippi Review as well as others. He lives in Kalamazoo with his wife and small dog. To order copy, send check for $10.00 to Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA 99209-0307.
See review of Roy Seeger's chapbook @ http://haydensferryreview.blogspot.com/2009/04/review-garden-of-improbable-birds-by.html
BOOK RELEASE OF ROY SEEGER’S POETRY COLLECTION
THE BOY WHOSE HANDS WERE BIRDS
Main Street Rag PO BOX 690100 Charlotte, NC 28227-7001
Contact: M. Scott Douglass Office: 704.573.2516 Email: editor@mainstreetrag.com
Charlotte, NC October 21, 2008—Main Street Rag Publishing Company to release Roy Seeger’s The Boy Whose Hands were Birds, the winner of their 2008 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Contest. The book will be available through Main Street Rag’s online bookstore and through select bookstores nationwide with a suggested cover price of $14.
Roy Seeger is a Full English Instructor at the University of South Carolina Aiken and the winner of the 2007 Gribble Press Chapbook Contest for The Garden of Improbable Birds. He received his Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry from Western Michigan University in 2005 and his Masters of Arts in Poetry from Ohio University. He was also co-winner of the 2008 Society for the study of Midwestern Literature’s Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, a finalist for the 2007 Chicago Poetry Center Juried Reading, and his work has been featured on Verse Daily as well as in numerous poetry journals such as Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, Verse and The Mississippi Review. Bob Hicok, award winning author of This Clumsy Living, says of the collection that, “There is a quiet optimism to these poems, a product of Seeger’s awareness that ‘between the clay/& the syllable that breathes/what we make/alive’ we are, as he points out, ‘little gods.’ Where others see language as limiting, he understands language as that which allows a level of ontological choice...This is an engaging first book.” William Olsen, poetry editor of New Issues Press, says of Seeger’s collection that, “These poems instruct not so much by example as by mishap, jerry-rigged allegory, domestic fluke. The result: a poetry that is itself a credible way to live, uniquely.”
The Boy Whose Hands Were Birds is scheduled for release on October 20, 2008 through Main Street Rag Publishing Company for $14. For orders contact M. Scott Douglass through www.mainstreetrag.com or by phone at 704-573-2516. You may contact Roy Seeger for autographed copies, readings, book signings, and workshops at 803-226-0245 or by email at roydseeger@hotmail.com.
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from eternity to personal pronoun by Anne Blonstein was the 2006 chapbook contest winner. The cover contains original art by Thomas Anthony Gribble, handmade paper on cardstock, and handstitching. For more information or to purchase a copy, contact Gribble@greymaredit.com.
from eternity to personal pronoun by Anne Blonstein was the 2006 chapbook contest winner. The cover contains original art by Thomas Anthony Gribble, handmade paper on cardstock, and handstitching. For more information or to purchase a copy, contact .
Signs Following by Lenae Nofziger was the 2005 chapbook contest winner. The cover contains original art by Thomas Anthony Gribble, handmade paper on cardstock, and handstitching. For more information or to purchase a copy, contact Gribble@greymaredit.com.
Some of you might be familiar with us under our previous imprint, Heliotrope: A Writer's Summer Solstice. At the present time, we are no longer publishing our annual journal, but we are back in the business of chapbooks. We publish two poetry chapbooks per year, with deadlines of April 30 and October 31. They will be published on linen paper with an artist-designed and handstitched cover. The entry fee is $15.00 per manuscript; total prize is $250 plus 25 copies of book. 
Although Nancy Culp is new to creative writing, she is no stranger to the arts. She works in many visual mediums: painting pastels, acrylics, and ceramics, in addition to teaching ceramic painting and beginning drawing classes. She presently lives in Spokane, Washington, and spends as much time as possible at the cabin her grandfather built on Lake Chelan. To order copy, send check for $10.00 to Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA 99209-0307. 
Walt Peterson is the author of three chapbooks of poetry. His last, In the Waiting Room of the Speedy Muffler King, won the Acorn-Rykheyser Award. In addition, he has a memoir, articles on cars and photographs published and does writing workshops, currently, with Franciscan nuns and incarcerated men at SCI Pine Grove in Indiana, PA. o To order copy, send check for $10.00 to Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA 99209-0307. 
Roy Seeger of Kalamazoo, Michigan is the winner of the Gribble Press poetry chapbook contest of 2007 for his manuscript, Garden of Improbable Birds. Roy Seeger teaches English part time at Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo Valley Community College. HIs poetry has been featured on Verse Daily and has appeared in such journals as Verse, The Laurel Review, Gulf Coast, The Mississippi Review as well as others. He lives in Kalamazoo with his wife and small dog. To order copy, send check for $10.00 to Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA 99209-0307. 
from eternity to personal pronoun by Anne Blonstein was the 2006 chapbook contest winner. The cover contains original art by Thomas Anthony Gribble, handmade paper on cardstock, and handstitching. For more information or to purchase a copy, contact . 
Signs Following by Lenae Nofziger was the 2005 chapbook contest winner. The cover contains original art by Thomas Anthony Gribble, handmade paper on cardstock, and handstitching. For more information or to purchase a copy, contact