PressPress Chapbook Award 2008
The PressPress Chapbook Award is for an unpublished chapbook length manuscript of poems. The winning manuscript will receive $300 and chapbook publication with PressPress. Go to the Award page to read the conditions. Click here for an entry form in pdf (or here for anentry form in Word.) are available here.Entries for the Award can be submitted from February 2008 to the end of May 2008. The Award will be announced in July 2008 on the site.
Latest: Jennifer Compton's Roma
Jennifer Compton's ROMA is now out. Go to her page to see a sample poem, read some background to the book and some review highlights of previous works. Compton's strong and distinctive voice captures her unique Rome.
Go to the How to buy section to purchase on line or send a cheque for $9.90 Australian (or equivalent) per title. It would be really good to support this smallest of small presses. We go for quality over quantity, but quantity helps.
About the press
PressPress is poetry publisher. It is probably the smallest publisher in the known universe. The aim of PressPress is to have good, accessible chapbooks at a reasonable price. It's a bit idealistic, but then, so is writing poetry in a time of fire.
Poetry in a time of fire is the unofficial motto of PressPress. Poetry is what people are interested in. If you're startled by this, you haven't been paying attention. Most people, at some time in their lives, have written a poem or two (usually more). This is something you can't say of novels, or tv scripts or even cartoons. Poetry is a universal thing, like music. We're not quite clear on why we do it but it seems to be one of things human creatures do. So I'm not going to defend poetry. It needs no defence.
Go to PressPress poets by clicking on the links to the right. You'll find details of their work, background, some reviews, photos and a sample of their work. Enjoy.
How to submit
Because PressPress is small and the chapbooks are only available through this site or at readings, we ask that you buy at least one title so that you know have a good idea of what the chapbooks are (while supporting the press you want to support you).
After that, make an enquiry via email with one sample poem and then maybe we'll ask for more if it's the sort of thing we're interested in. Be prepared to wait, for an answer and for publication. Or not. Sometimes we're fast, mostly we're not.
PressPress prefers to have all submissions received digitally. Hardcopy submissions without a return postage will be thoughtfully recycled.
Contact
email: info@presspress.com.au
PressPressPO Box 94
Berry NSW 2535
Australia
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