PUB: Sixteen Rivers Press: Submission Guidelines

 


Chapbook Contest for Poets Under Forty

Submission Guidelines

  • Send TWO copies of your manuscript.
  • The manuscript must be postmarked no later than December, 15, 2010. Authors must be under the age of forty on that date.
  • The manuscript must be between 26 to 30 pages in length, 1 1/2-spaced lines.
  • Manuscripts must be paginated (pages numbered in order).
  • Include two title pages, one with full contact information, and one with the title only.
  • Do not include your name anywhere in the manuscript, as it is important to us that these be blind submissions.
  • Include an acknowledgments page listing previous publications of the poems.
  • Include a table of contents page.
  • Clip your manuscript using a butterfly clip. Do not use folders or any type of binding.
  • Include a $15 reading fee, payable to Sixteen Rivers Press.
  • Include an SASE for contest results.
  • Send your manuscript to Sixteen Rivers Press, P.O. Box 640663, San Francisco, CA 94164-0663.
  • Manuscripts cannot be returned. If you would like verification of receipt, please clip a stamped, self-addressed postcard to one copy of the manuscript.
  • We reserve the right not to choose a winner, in which case all the entrants' fees will be returned.

 

Full-Length Manuscript Submissions

(Please note: Sixteen Rivers Press is a nonprofit, shared-work poetry collective. We are a regional press, and publish only San Francisco Bay Area Watershed authors).

REQUIREMENTS OF AUTHORS:

  • Authors must become members of the collective and make a three-year commitment to it.
  • Authors must live within the Bay Area and be able to attend one and often two monthly meetings.
  • Authors will devote a minimum of ten hours per month to the collective in support of our publication schedule, and considerably more time when their own books are in production.
  • Authors will agree to follow our consensus-based model of decision-making.
  • Authors are responsible for doing the work of a publishing collective, including book design, production and publicity. Collective members are available to help teach these skills.
  • Authors have the final decision on the look and contents of their own book.
  • Authors receive no money from the sales of their books. Profits from sales go toward the publication of the next two authors selected by the press.
  • Authors’ books will be published during the second year of their commitment. The third year is devoted to promoting their books and helping publish the next two authors selected by the press.
  • Submission period is from November 1, 2010 to February 1, 2011.
  • Manuscripts received outside that time interval will not be read.

MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES:

Manuscripts that do not adhere to the following guidelines will not be considered.

  • Send TWO copies of your manuscript.
  • Manuscript must be postmarked no later than February 1, 2011.
  • Manuscript must be between 65 and 80 pages in length, 1 1/2 spaced lines (NO single spaced poems).
  • Manuscripts must be paginated (pages numbered in order).
  • Manuscript must include a title page without your name and address.
  • Manuscript must include an acknowledgments page listing previous publications of the poems.
  • Manuscript must include a table of contents page.
  • Please do not include your name anywhere in your manuscript, as it is important to us that these be blind submissions.
  • Please clip your manuscripts using a butterfly clip. Do not use folders or any type of binding.
  • Include a one-page personal statement about why you want to work in a collective, including special experience or skills you might contribute.
  • A title page with your name and address, phone number, and e-mail address should be clipped to the personal statement.
  • Manuscripts cannot be returned. If you would like verification of receipt, please clip a stamped, self-addressed postcard to the statement as well.

One to two manuscripts will be chosen by the members of the press through consensus by July 1, 2011. Prospective new member-authors will be notified as soon as possible after that date. We reserve the right to publish no manuscript in any given year. Manuscripts selected will be scheduled for publication in Spring 2013. We appreciate your interest and wish you all the best in your work.

 CONTACT INFORMATION:

Sixteen Rivers Press
P.O. Box 640663
San Francisco, CA 94164-0663

Tel: 415.273.1303 / Fax: 415.221.5116

Email: info@sixteenrivers.org

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