Manuscript guidelines for poetry submissions--including chapbooks

  • Use a separate cover sheet for your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address. 
  • Center your book title and byline about halfway down the page. 
  • Include your last name and page number in the top right margin (header) of the first and each subsequent manuscript page.
  • Include a table of contents. 
  • Begin each poem on a new page, single-spaced with double spacing between stanzas.
  • Leave at least a 1-inch margin on all sides of the page.

Note: We consider chapbooks to be at least 15 pages (of text) and at most 40 pages long. Longer works we consider to be full-length book manuscripts. 

If the manuscript is accepted, authors will receive a standard publishing contract, with royalties, and a number of author copies (no charge).

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