New poetry coming from Dennis Held. His book, Yourself, due for release Ocober 2010.
Winner of Gribble Press Chapbook Competition 2010, Vol. 1: John Whalen for the manuscript, In Honor of the Spigot.
Finalists in the compeition include: Carol Frith, Tamara and the Dolls; Jean Esteve, Happenstances; Susan Landgraf, Heads or Tails: A Boxed Set of Sex Coins; Francine Witte, Love Is Like That; Lois Harrod, The Only Is; Ellen LaFleche, Ovarian; Sharon Chmielarz, She'll Return for Trees.
SPEED BUMP (from In Honor of theSpigot by John Whalen)
What’s no fun is a clean kitchen empty of daughters. These big-hurry guys pass me on the freeway but they don’t make me as mad as my own apartment does.
When my girls come over to run with their friends, I relax, lie down on the job. A speed bump knows what it knows.
Hot tar stretches across my back. Crushing weight comforts me. I get in the way of SUVs. Lick my wounds. Heedless, kids pedal the length
of me. Shoot their water pistols. Drivers on cell phones. Drivers combing their hair, texting the latest. I trained with the squint-eyed
crossing-guard moms. Counting my luck, I’m stuck between the traffic and the real action.
Contact us at Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA 99209-0307 or email Gribble@greymaredit.com
*Winner* Gribble Press Chapbook contest 2009, v1, Arlene Naganawa for her manuscript Private Graveyard.
Arlene Naganawa was born and raised in Seattle. She received her BA in English from the University of Washington. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Seattle Review, Crab Creek Review, Caketrain, Cider Press Review, Pontoon and The Floating Bridge Review, Crab Orchard Review, and others. She received individual literary artist grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and her work was featured in the "Late Blooms Poetry Postcard Series, 2008." To order copy, send check for $10.00 to Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA 99209-0307. For review of Arlene's book, see www.fiddlercrabreview.com
*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.
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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.
Arlene Naganawa was born and raised in Seattle. She received her BA in English from the University of Washington. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Seattle Review, Crab Creek Review, Caketrain, Cider Press Review, Pontoon and The Floating Bridge Review, Crab Orchard Review, and others. She received individual literary artist grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and her work was featured in the "Late Blooms Poetry Postcard Series, 2008." To order copy, send check for $10.00 to Gribble Press, PO Box 10307, Spokane, WA 99209-0307. For review of Arlene's book, see 
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