[New-Poetry] Pavement Saw Chapbook Contest

[David Baratier]

This can be paid for directly through our website if you are submitting electronically. It might be cheaper to submit electronically with the cost of postage and to print out a manuscript.     

Pavement Saw Chapbook Contest   
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$500 and 50 copies of the winning chapbook will be awarded for the finest collection of poetry received. Everyone is allowed to submit regardless of previous publication history. Every entrant will receive the equivalent cost of the entry fee in Pavement Saw Press titles.     

The chapbooks are published in an edition of 400 copies plus overage. While chapbooks rarely receive exposure, ours have been reviewed in Poets and Writers, Publishers Weekly, The Georgia Review, Small Press Review and many others. Our previous winners have had subsequent full length books appear from a bevy of publishers including Curbstone Press, Cleveland State University Press, Bear Star Press, Blazevox Books, University of Georgia, and Hanging Loose Press.      

Submit up to 32 pages of poetry. Include a signed cover letter with your name, address, phone number, e-mail, publication credits, a brief biography and the title of the chapbook. Include a cover page with your contact information and the chapbook title. Include a second page with the chapbook title only. Do not include your name on any pages inside the manuscript except for the first title page. No need for a contents page. All chapbooks are selected blindly / anonymously. Entry fee: $15.       

If you wish to send via regular mail your manuscript should be accompanied by a check in the amount of $15.00 made payable to Pavement Saw Press. All US contributors to the contest will receive books, chapbooks and journals equal to, or more than, the entry fee. Add $3 ( US ) for other countries to cover the extra postal charge. Do not include an SASE for notification of results, this information will be sent with the free book. Do not send the only copy of your work. All manuscripts are recycled and individual comments on the manuscripts cannot be made. Manuscripts will be considered until December 31st, 2008 for the prize. 

This year the editor will be the judge and, as it should be, he promises not to chose former students, former or potential sexual partners, press interns, or people that can make him famous. In addition to the prize winner, sometimes another anonymous manuscript is published under a standard royalty contract. A decision will be reached by March. Entries should be sent to our address at the bottom of the page.      

If you wish to submit electronically, you should send $21.00 via paypal to info at pavementsaw.org. We will then send you an e-mail confirmation as well as where to e-mail the manuscript. Electronic submissions need to be sent as PDF files or as word (.doc or .docx) files. Other formats are not accepted. The extra cost is to cover the paypal fees as well as the time, labor, ink, and so on, to print out your manuscript.   

Previous Winners:  Noah Eli Gordon, Acoustic Experience; Susan Terris, Marriage License; Dan Boehl, Work; Joshua Corey,  Compostition Marble; Knute Skinner, The Other Shoe; Lisa Samuels, War Holdings; F. J. Bergmann, Sauce Robert; John Bradley, Add Musk Here; Amy King, The People Instruments; Will Nixon, The Fish are Laughing; Shelley Stenhouse, Pants; David Brooks, Right Livelihood; Douglas Goetsch, Wherever You Want; Joshua Mc Kinney, Permutations of the Gallery.     

Pavement Saw Press  
Chapbook Contest
321 Empire Street  
Montpelier, OH 43543 
http://pavementsaw.org






Be well

David Baratier, Editor

Pavement Saw Press
321 Empire Street
Montpelier OH 43543
http://pavementsaw.org

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