Poetry Chapbook Contest Rules

• First prize $1,000 and publication + 5 copies
• Nonprofit mission is to publish new authors — contest only for authors without published book or chapbook
• Deadline: January 15, 2011 postmark
• Submit 20-24 pages of poetry
• Blind review: On a cover sheet submit name, address, and contact information (address, e-mail, and phone #) and the title of your chapbook. On the chapbook manuscript put only its title. Put chapbook title on every page of the manuscript. Author's name cannot appear anywhere on the chapbook manuscript.
• At least three independent readers
• Final judge: Samuel Green, inaugural poet laureate of Washington State
• Reading Fee: $25 in check or money order to Flying Trout Press
• Four finalists get a free copy
• Poems can be on any topic
• Finalists also considered for publication
• No manuscripts returned without SASE. No electronic submissions.
• Notification in April 2011

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