Last day to send a chapbook manuscript!

OK, so yesterday was the postmark deadline, but I won't be back from vacation until the 21st, so if anyone still wants to send a chapbook submission to our scrappy little series, then feel free to do so this week. Hurry!



The Midwest Chapbook Series
GreenTower Press/The Laurel Review


Final Judge: Mary Biddinger

The contest is open to anyone who is living in, from, or closely associated with the Midwest, excluding close friends and former students of the editors or contest judge, as well as employees and students of Northwest Missouri State University.

Guidelines:


20-30 pages (typed, single-sided, one poem per page).



Individual poems may have been previously published. You may include an acknowledgements page if you wish, though one is not required.



Include two cover pages: one with title only, the other with name, address, email address, manuscript title, and a short note establishing your connection to the Midwest.



Your name should ONLY appear on the cover page, which the staff will keep on file. Manuscripts will be read blind.



Reading period opens February 1 and ends July 1, 2012.



$10.00 reading fee. Please make checks payable to GreenTower Press. Reading fee gets you a one-year subscription to The Laurel Review, starting with the summer issue.



The winning chapbook will be published in an edition of 300 copies. Winner will receive one hundred copies. Additional copies offered at 40% off the list price ($7.00) plus shipping and handling.



Winner also will be invited to give a reading at Northwest Missouri State University’s Visiting Writers series, which includes travel expenses paid and an honorarium of $250.00



All entries will be considered for publication in The Laurel Review.



Winner will be notified by email or telephone, and will be announced on our website (http://catpages.nwmissouri.edu/m/tlr/) in September, 2012.



If you’d like an acknowledgement of receipt send a SASP; please do not send a SASE.



Send entries to:

GreenTower Press
Midwest Chapbook Series
Northwest Missouri State University
Maryville, MO 64468

Questions may be addressed to the editors of The Laurel Review at: TLR@nwmissouri.edu

Recent chapbooks available from GreenTower Press:


Elizabeth Clark Wessel, Whither Weather

BLOOM, Rob Schlegel

Show Me Yours, Hadara bar-Nadav

Off the Fire Road, Greg Wrenn

Instructions for a Painting, Molly Brodak

ITINERARY, Reginald Shepherd

Anatomy of a Ghost, Rumit Pancholi

Grenade, Rebecca Hoogs

The BirdGirl Handbook, Amy Newman