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 three chapbooks per year, beginning with poetry, followed by fiction, then creative non-fiction. They will all 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 fiction chapbook contest offered by Gribble Press. 

1. Send your chapbook manuscript of 20-30 pages of fiction. 

2. Paginate ms. and include table of contents.

3. Individual stories 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 stories.

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 Iris Gribble-Neal, editor.

6. Include an SASE for notification of winner

7. May be a simultaneous submission, but we want immediate notification if accept 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 May 30, 2008. Winner will be announced by June 30, 2008.

10. Send through regular U.S. mail. If you want notification of receipt, include a stamped postcard, no postal return receipts, please.

11. Mail to Chapbook Contest, Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA 99209-0307.

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 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 Gribble@greymaredit.com.

For a review of Anne Blonstein's chapbook, from eternity to personal pronoun, see www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_1/index.html .

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.