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Lefty Blondie Press Editors' Choice Broadside Series

Open to self-identifying women & non-binary poets of any age & any publishing history!

Submissions Accepted Annually: October 1 - January 15

    Our Lefty Blondie Press Editors' Choice Broadside Series is a collaboration between LBP editors, poets, and our letterpress designer to make poems more visible! Lefty Blondie Press serves as the conduit between a single poem and the handset letterpress process. Our goal with this series is to promote the art of letterpress printing, and create avenues to poetry for those who may otherwise avoid encountering it.

    Lefty Blondie Press broadsides are original designs of hand-set letterpress printed on individual sheets of exquisite paper. creating an engaging, unique, hand-numbered piece for your wall. They also make for the best kind of unique gift giving!

    The Poet of the Selected Poem will Receive:

    • 25 (twenty-five) copies of the limited-edition handset letterpress broadside designed and printed by Ryan Kaune
    • Praise, adoration, and promotion through social media, literary festivals, independent booksellers, & any other collaborations LBP seeks out.
    • Finalists may be offered publication as part of LBP's Letterpress Series

    Standalone Short Poems (20 lines or less) Temp Closed

    Opens on Thursday, October 1, 2026 12:00 AM EDT (in 9 days).

    Open to self-identifying women & non-binary poets of any age & any publishing history

    Submissions Accepted: October 1 - January 15

    Details & Submission Guidelines:

        Submissions:

        Submission Do's:

        • Start each new poem on a new page within the single document
        • Additional submissions of up to 3 poems per document are welcome! Please pay the submission fee for each individual submission
        • Simultaneous submissions accepted. Please notify us immediately through the Duosuma submission manager if your poem is accepted elsewhere.

        Submission Don'ts:

        • Please, no previously published poems (this is new this year)
        • Absolutely no submissions that are racist, homophobic, misogynist, discriminatory, or hateful.
        • No AI-generated texts nor AI-modified texts. Human-created poems only.

        Reading Fee:

        • Pay-what-you-can reading fee via Duosuma tip jar through November 15th! We want to read your work & we don't want the reading fee to keep you from submitting.
        • BEGINNING November 16, 2025: $5 reading fee per submission
        • ALL submissions are read by LBP editors & readers with openness and attention, regardless of what you're able to add to our tip jar.
        • All tip jar donations support LBP's mission to promote the poetry of self-identifying women and non-binary people.

        The Poet of the Selected Poem will Receive:

        • 25 (twenty-five) copies of the limited-edition handset letterpress broadside
        • Praise, adoration, and promotion through social media, literary festivals, independent booksellers, & any other collaborations LBP seeks out.

        Publishing Rights & Citation:

        • Lefty Blondie Press holds first serial rights for work that we publish, and the right to reprint that work in other formats with your permission.
        • Upon publication, all rights revert to the author.
        • Please cite Lefty Blondie Press if your poems published with LBP are published elsewhere in the future.

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