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Weasel Press is hosting it’s first poetry chapbook contest, and hoping to make it a yearly thing. We love the existential, beat poetry; poetry that thrives on showing us the current state of the human condition. We encourage poets to get experimental with their work, slam it into us. Don’t be afraid to really twist your readers with your words. Details about the contest are listed below. We ask that you read our guidelines and review some of the work we have published before submitting to us. This will allow you to get a better feel for who we are as a community and what we enjoy.
Winner of this contest will receive 20 free copies of their chapbook and a cash prize of $250. 1 winner will be selected, the finalists of this contest will be reviewed for publishing projects for our 2016 line up.
Rules:
-Must not have a current or pending project with Weasel Press
-Must not be an editor or staff member of Weasel Press or it’s affiliate magazines (The Haunted Traveler, Degenerates, Vagabonds: anthology of the Mad Ones, Typewriter Emergencies).
-We will not be accepting Simultaneous work for this contest.
-Chapbooks must be unpublished as a whole (individual pieces published in magazines are fine).
-There is a one time $15 entry fee.
Submissions are accepted through submittable. The contest will take place in two rounds and have been broken down below. Round one will be open submissions. In Round 1 we ask that entrants submit a sample of their chapbook, roughly 3-5 poems. Nothing that identifies the poet can be on this manuscript as it will be read blind. Samples must be one poem per page, Times New Roman, 12pt font and Single Space (unless your poem has special formatting). We only accept files that are DOC, DOCX, RTF. Submissions for round one will end August 1, 2015
Our editorial committee will select 10 contestants to move onto round two. Round two poets will be asked to supply a full manuscript and a video of themselves reading a few poems from that manuscript (3-5 poems is fine for the video). Full Manuscripts should have 20-30 poems in it. Anything below 20 will get rejected without review. Full manuscripts will not be blindly read since we are asking for videos. Contestants will receive an email with an updated submittable link to upload their files, as well as a deadline to get their submissions in by.
Out of these 10 contestants, the committee will select 3 finalists, one of which will be the winner of the contest. Finalists will be reviewed for possible publication in our 2016 lineup.
