PUB: Pulse Literary Journal Announces Larry Kramer Memorial Chapbook Contest & William Dunbar Book-length Poetry Contest

Pulse Literary Journal

Announces

Larry Kramer Memorial Chapbook Contest

2010

 

Deadline (postmark date) April 15, 2010

Send 16-24 pages of poetry. The work as a whole must be previously unpublished, though individual poems may have been previously published.  Poems should be single spaced, one per page.

 

Send by US Mail only, no mail that needs a signature at the door please, and no UPS 

 

Heartsounds Press

Carol W. Bachofner, poetry editor

12 Center Street

Rockland, ME 04841

 

Two title pages, one with no personal information, the other with title and poet's name only

 

Do not staple manuscript; use large paper clip or binder clip.

 

Poems need not be themed but should work well together

 

Enclose a table of contents, acknowledgments page if appropriate, these not to be numbered

 

Manuscript pages numbered sequentially in a footer which also contains the title of the manuscript (No author name in footer please)

 

Enclose a brief biographical note of 50 words

Enclose a check or money order for $18 made payable to Heartsounds Press

 

Send SASE for notification only

Send SASP for receipt of manuscript

 

Heartsounds Press will award $200 to the winner, and will publish the winning manuscript in a print run of at least 100, with 30 to the winner and the remaining available for purchase by winner at author rates. Remaining copies will be sold on the Heartsounds Press website, with 40% of the proceeds to the author. A nationally-known judge will be named later. Initial screening by a panel.

 

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William Dunbar Book-length Poetry Contest:

 

Deadline (postmark date) April 1, 2010

 

 

 

 

Send 48-54 pages of poetry, single-spaced, one poem per page.

 

Individual poems may be previously published but not as a collection.

 

Send by US Mail only, no mail that needs a signature at the door please, and no UPS 

 

Heartsounds Press

Carol W. Bachofner, poetry editor

12 Center Street

Rockland, ME 04841

 

Two title pages, one with no personal information, the other with title and poet's name only

Do not staple manuscript; use large paper clip or binder clip

Poems need not be themed but should work well together

Enclose a table of contents and an acknowledgments page, not numbered with the rest of the manuscript

 

Manuscript pages should be numbered sequentially in a footer which also contains the title of the manuscript (No author name in footer please)

 

Enclose a brief biographical note with name, address, email, phone

Enclose a brief statement about Scottish poet, William Dunbar and his influence on poems in the manuscript. (this can be the influence on as few as two of the poems)

Enclose a check or money order for $28 made payable to Heartsounds Press

SASE for notification

SASP for receipt of manuscript

 

Heartsounds Press will award $400 to the winner, and will publish the winning manuscript in a print run of at least 100, with 50 to the winner and the remaining available for purchase by winner at author rates.

 

Remaining copies will be sold on the Heartsounds

Press website, with 40% of the proceeds to the author. A nationally-known judge will be named later. Initial screening by a panel.

 

One runner-up in each contest may be offered publication of his/her manuscript.

 

NOTE:  Heartsounds Press reserves the right to not award prizes or offer publication in either or both of these contests if the judges find no manuscript they deem worthy of winning.

 

For questions on either of the above contests, email the editor:

heartsoundspress@me.com