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Happy to announce the publication of No Chair Press's newest chapbook, The Unacknowledged Legislator by Anna M. Evans!
About Anna M. Evans: Anna M. Evans is a poet, editor, and veteran of several local political campaigns. She currently serves as the Democratic Committee Chair in Hainesport, New Jersey, and is active in the Burlington County Democratic Women’s Co-operative. She read a poem from this collection, “Not My Son,” at a protest outside her former Congressman’s office in 2018. He lost the election and the poem was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, although these things are probably not related. Born and raised in the Midlands of England, before moving to the United States in 2000, she has no plans to run for President. Her latest book, Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic is available from Able Muse Press, and her previous sonnet collection, Sisters & Courtesans, is published by White Violet Press. Anna is a former Editor of the Raintown Review, and is an Advisory Board member for Poetry by the Sea, a Global Conference. She teaches poetry at West Windsor Art Center, and Writing at Rowan College at Burlington County. Available for purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Unacknowledged-Legislator-Anna-M-Evans/dp/1795338512/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=anna+evans+legislator+poems&qid=1557340073&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmr0
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Watch for our next chapbook contest in summer 2019. Contest Results 2018: No Chair Press is happy to name the following chapbooks as winners in its most recent competition: First place winner: "Dead Reckoning" by Emily Williamson ($150 and 20 copies of published chapbook) Second place winner: "Song and Scar" by Liz Ahl ($50 and 20 copies of published chapbook) In addition, No Chair Press has offered publication to Caitlin Scott, author of the chapbook "Pin Prick Kiss, I Miss." All three books are scheduled for publication in April 2019. No Chair Press poet Jenny Benjamin has two new books! One is MIDWAY, the second place winner in the 2017-18 No Chair Press chapbook contest. Read more about this award-winning poet here http://wuwm.com/post/jenny-benjamin-takes-over-poetry-shelves-two-new-books#stream/0
I received many wonderful manuscripts for the first (and hopefully annual) No Chair Press Chapbook Contest. I am very pleased to announce my two choices for publication. First place ($300 and publication) goes to Elise Hempel for her manuscript “Girl in the Clock.” Elise Hempel grew up in suburban Chicago and has worked as an editor, proofreader, copywriter and university English instructor. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Poetry, Measure, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Evansville Review, Southern Poetry Review, and The Midwest Quarterly, as well as in Poetry Daily and Ted Kooser's weekly column, American Life in Poetry. She is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and the winner of the 2015 Able Muse Write Prize in Poetry and the 2016 String Poet Prize and has been a finalist or semi-finalist for several book awards. Her first chapbook, Only Child, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2014, and in 2016 Able Muse Press published her first full-length collection of poems, Second Rain. She lives in central Illinois. Second place ($100 and publication) goes to Jenny Benjamin for her manuscript “Midway.” Jenny Benjamin is the owner of her freelance writing business JB Communications, LLC. Over thirty of her poems have appeared in journals, including DIAGRAM, South Carolina Review, Fulcrum, Baltimore Review, Chelsea, and Crab Orchard Review. Her first novel, This Most Amazing, was published in 2013 by Armida Books in Nicosia, Cyprus. Her poetry chapbook, More Than a Box of Crayons, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her three daughters and dog. Please join me in congratulating these poets. Both chapbooks are scheduled for publication in April 2018. No Chair Press’s next open reading period (not a contest) will be in April 2018. Submission guidelines for that open reading period will be posted on nochairpress.com by February 2018. Allison Joseph, Publisher and Founder NO CHAIR PRESS www.nochairpress.com Thanks to everyone who entered the first No Chair Press chapbook contest. I received a lot of lovely entries and I'm grateful.
The winners will be announced on December 1. The chapbooks themselves will appear in print in March or April 2018. Our next reading period will be the month of April 2018. I'll won't be holding a contest with a cash prize, but will be selecting one chapbook manuscript for publication by No Chair Press. No Chair Press is proud to announce the publication of the word b-i-r-d by Elisabeth Meyer!
Information about this lovely chapbook of poems can be found at www.createspace.com/7442507 A sneak preview of our next book, the word b-i-r-d! The lovely collection of poems is by poet and educator Elisabeth Meyer! We're almost at the proof stage, and are projecting publication for the end of September!
The No Chair Press Chapbook Contest
Sponsored by No Chair Press No Chair Press: a chapbook press publishing traditional formal poetry by contemporary women poets first prize: $300 and 25 copies of selected chapbook second prize: $100 and 25 copies of selected chapbook For this contest, No Chair Press is seeking manuscripts of rhymed and metered verse, given a contemporary spin by today’s women poets. The majority of the poems in submitted manuscripts should be engaging formal techniques. Sonnet sequences very welcome, as are rhymed verse plays. A manuscript entirely of free verse poems is not a good fit for this particular contest and press, but a few free verse poems in an manuscript that predominately has formal poems (sonnets, villanelles, rondeaus, etc) will not eliminate that manuscript. Guidelines: 1. Manuscripts should be 24-28 pages, uploaded at our upload link as attachment in doc or docx format 2. Two winners will be selected for publication by No Chair Press. The first prize winner will receive $300 and 25 copies; the second prize winner will receive $100 and 25 copies 3. Submit your manuscript during October 2017 at https://greensubmissions.com/985/no-chair-press/index.php 4. There is a $5.00 reading fee ($10 if you wish to receive a copy of a No Chair Press book). Pay entry fee at https://www.paypal.me/NoChairPress. Email a copy of your receipt to [email protected] to confirm payment of entry fee. 5. Results of the contest will be posted at No Chair Press’s website at the end of December 2017. 6. Book publication will occur in April 2018. 7. For more information about No Chair Press, visit our website: http://www.nochairpress.com/ No Chair Press will concentrate on publishing poetry chapbooks written in traditional rhyme and meter by contemporary women poets. As editor, I'm looking for a strong use of rhyme and meter and I'm particularly happy to see sonnet collections, villanelle sequences, and use for traditional French forms such as the rondeau. If you write free verse, this is not the press for you to submit to--(while I love and appreciate free verse and write a lot of it myself)--No Chair Press will have a particular focus on chapbooks of formal, metered verse.
Watch this site for guidelines to submit a manuscript during our October 2017 reading period! We'll have a call for manuscripts on this site, as well as through CRWROPPS, the Creative Writers Opportunities List, which I curate. Our second book has been commissioned by Allison Joseph!
I am happy to announce No Chair Press's second book, a chapbook by Elisabeth Meyer entitled "The Word B-I-R-D." Lis and I are working on bringing out this bright and beautiful collection by October 2017, right when our first chapbook contest opens. I've known Lis since she was my student at SIU, and when I thought about a second chapbook to personify what I want No Chair Press to represent, I thought of Lis's lucid and beautiful poems. Watch this website for more on Lis's book! |
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