Lefty Blondie Press Open Reading Period

Lefty Blondie Press Open Reading Period

We welcome poetry chapbook manuscripts written by those who:

• self-identify as woman or non-binary individual
• are 18+ years and older
• write in English & currently live in the U.S
• are a new, emerging, or established poet

Open Reading Period Details & Submission Guidelines

Chapbook Manuscripts:

• 18-24 pages of poetry (not including title page, table of contents, endnotes)
• Can be any form or topic, though we find a unifying theme works best
• Begin each new poem on a new page
• Your name should not appear anywhere in or on the manuscript
• Individual poems may be previously published, with acknowledgements
• Simultaneous submissions accepted. Please notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere
• Absolutely no submissions that are racist, homophobic, misogynist, discriminatory, or hateful.
• No AI-generated texts nor AI-modified texts. Human-created poems only.

Selection & Publication:

• Manuscript(s) will be selected by Lefty Blondie Press editors
• We will select at least one manuscript each year, more if we are able to support additional titles
• Lefty Blondie Press will print 250 carefully edited, handbound, hand-cut, and hand-numbered chapbooks
• 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.

Poet of Selected Manuscript Receives:

• 10 (ten) author copies
• 40% off any additional author copies
• Praise, adoration, and promotion through social media, literary festivals, independent booksellers, & any other collaborations LBP seeks out.

Pay-What-You-Can Reading Fee:

• We suggest $10-$20 reading fee per manuscript submission, but please feel free to submit and skip the reading fee.
• ALL manuscripts are read by LBP editors and 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.
• To submit through Duosuma, you need a free personal Duotrope account.

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