Eighth
Annual Chapbook Contest
for
Florida Poets
October
1-December 1, 2013
All
entrants must be permanent adult residents of Florida.
Manuscripts
should be no
longer than 24 pages, including title page and acknowledgments. No
e-mail submissions. Include a brief bio, date you became a Florida
resident, and
SASE, along with $10 reading fee (Check or money order made payable to
Gianna
Russo).
Include notice of previous
publications of specific poems, if applicable.
Manuscripts will not be
returned.
The winner(s) will be announced by March 15, 2014
and will receive $200 and 30 copies.
All entrants receive a
copy of the winning book.
Previous
winners:
The
Magician’s Daughter by Meryl Stratford of Hallandale Beach
(2012)
Girls
Turned Like Dials by Liz Robbins of St. Augustine (2011)
A
Tiny Hunger by Laura Ross of Sorrento (2010)
My
Grandfather Singing by Jesse Millner of Fort Myers (2009)
Better
Accidents, by Kate Sweeney of Tampa (2008)
Our
Keen Blue House, by Michael Trammell of Tallahassee (2007)
Many
Loves, by Michael Hettich of Miami (2006)
Message
on a Branch, by Sharon Scholl of Jacksonville (2006)
Night
Windows, by Susan Lilley of Orlando (2005)
Music
in Arabic, by Mary Jane Ryals of Tallahassee (2005)
Florida
Straits, by Gregory Byrd of Clearwater (2004)
To purchase one of the
above, send an additional $7.00 along with your submission.
Send submissions to:
Yellow
Jacket Press Chapbook Competition
c/o
Gianna Russo
1410 E. Paris Street
Tampa,
Fl. 33604
Postmark
deadline December 1st
For more information
contact: russo15@juno.com, yellowjacketpress@gmail.com or
check the website at
www.yellowjacketpress.org
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