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Formatting and Submitting a Poetry Chapbook or Collection

Poems should be sent together in the same document, one poem per page (unless you have some small poems grouped together — e.g., 5 haiku about flies). Use “Insert/Page Break” in Pages (or the equivalent function in Words/etc.) to create a new page, NOT by hitting return a bunch of times. Have an acknowledgment page listing where poems were first published. Don’t worry about a table of contents (our typesetting program will create one automatically), but have the poems in the order that you want them to be. If accepted it could be that we might suggest changes to the order or the removal of some poems. For example, we prefer to have two-page poems start on an even page, so the reader doesn’t have to turn the page to finish the poem.

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Forests Unexplored Chapbook Series

Shorter non-speculative poetry (20–40 pages) preferred. You do not need to have a special theme, story or gimmick to tie all the poems together, but it wouldn’t hurt either. Chapbooks will be available as paperbacks and ebooks.

This series is for general (i.e., not science fiction, fantasy or horror) poetry. If you have a genre manuscript, send it to the Coffee Table Chapbook Series.

In one Pages/Word/etc. document, have a title page, then put one poem per page, use "Insert/Page Break" in Pages (or the equivalent in your word processor) instead of hitting "return" a bunch of times to start a new page, an acknowledgement page listing poems that were published elsewhere, and an optional author bio. Don't bother with a table of contents, LaTeX will handle that automatically if/when we typeset the book. If accepted it could be that we might suggest changes to the order or the removal of some poems. For example, we prefer to have two-page poems start on an even page, so the reader doesn’t have to turn the page to finish the poem.

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