2010 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Next Steps
I haven’t even posted the next steps post, yet I’ve already received my first chapbook manuscript via e-mail. I expect many more to be sent my way between today and…
I haven't even posted the next steps post, yet I've already received my first chapbook manuscript via e-mail. I expect many more to be sent my way between today and January 5th at 11:59 p.m. (Atlanta, Georgia, time).
To read the original guidelines post, click here.
If you're lazy, here are the basics:
- You have until 11:59 p.m. on 1/5/2011 to submit 10-20 PAGES of poetry (no more than one poem per page, though one poem can stretch over multiple pages). This means, of course, that if you wrote more than 20 poems during the month of November you'll have to make decisions about which poems should make the manuscript and which shouldn't.
- Manuscripts should be submitted as either .doc (not .docx), .txt or .rtf files.
- Send them to robert.brewer@fwmedia.com with this subject line: My 2010 November PAD Chapbook MS
- Poets can submit a manuscript even if they did not post poems to the blog during the month of November.
- Manuscripts can include a poem or two outside of November, but the majority should be poems inspired by the November prompts. Using the honor system here.
- Poets can submit multiple manuscripts, but poets improve their chances if they focus on one stellar manuscript as opposed to several mediocre manuscripts.
- Manuscripts will be judged by myself and my awesome poet wife, Tammy Foster Brewer.
Any other questions, leave a comment below (and/or send me an e-mail).
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
