jordan
lothario speedwagon
okay, so there have been grumblings and rumblings, but now rubyred and i are organized enough to start taking submissions for one of our first books.
send them to: chance.press.books (at) gmail (dot) com
currently untitled, the book will be a collection of poetry by buk.net members or frequent buk.net readers who don't post very often or at all. i pasted the submission guidelines below, but here are some other things to keep in mind:
1. if you don't post on the buk.net forum PLEASE introduce yourself in your cover letter. also, keep in mind that there is a FAR lower chance of your work being selected, although it is not out of the question.
2. this is not going to be a book of poems about bukowski. we'd prefer poems that AREN'T about bukowski, actually. it's intended to be a collection of work by this unique and really fantastic online community, and it's understood that we are bound by a love for bukowski- it doesn't need to be so obvious in the writing.
3. please don't submit if your being rejected will color your feelings about this forum. MJP IS NOT INVOLVED IN THE PUBLISHING OF THIS BOOK OR THE SELECTION OF THE POEMS.
4. if i have ever been a jerk to you on the forum, don't assume that your submission will be rejected outright... if rubyred likes it, it will probably get in.
okay, and since i love guidelines, here are the general submissions guidelines from the chancepress site:
1. Your submission can be electronic or on paper. If you would like to submit on paper, please email chance.press.books (at) gmail (dot) com first.
2. Your submission must have a cover letter containing, at the very least, your current address and a brief summary of the work you are submitting. If your cover letter mentions Chance Press, there is a significantly higher chance that we will read it.
3. Any subject is fair game... However, please don't submit any poems about writing poetry, poems about poetry, poems about the power of poems, or poems about being a poet. Poems about other poets are okay, though... We just feel pretty strongly that self-referential poems about poems are pretty tired.
4. Simultaneous submissions are ONLY okay IF: you aren't one of those people who send the same 100 poems to 100 different small presses at a time. In other words, we understand that it can be a drag sending a poem to a publisher who holds it hostage for 3 months with no response, but people that abuse simultaneous submissions can expect to have their submissions returned.
5. No literary criticism- thumbs up or thumbs down only. We have had our own poems and stories rejected enough times to know the disappointment and the general "WHY?!!!" that accompanies the rejection of something you thought was genuinely good. There are a lot of reasons we might reject your submission, from us not having the time or resources to publish it at any given time to us just not liking it. Still, we're in the business of making books, not providing literary criticism. There are plenty of great writers' groups you can solicit to get opinions on your work that are probably more useful than whatever we have to say anyway.
maybe this is overkill guideline-wise for our first release, but if you don't like it, start your own small press.
send them to: chance.press.books (at) gmail (dot) com
currently untitled, the book will be a collection of poetry by buk.net members or frequent buk.net readers who don't post very often or at all. i pasted the submission guidelines below, but here are some other things to keep in mind:
1. if you don't post on the buk.net forum PLEASE introduce yourself in your cover letter. also, keep in mind that there is a FAR lower chance of your work being selected, although it is not out of the question.
2. this is not going to be a book of poems about bukowski. we'd prefer poems that AREN'T about bukowski, actually. it's intended to be a collection of work by this unique and really fantastic online community, and it's understood that we are bound by a love for bukowski- it doesn't need to be so obvious in the writing.
3. please don't submit if your being rejected will color your feelings about this forum. MJP IS NOT INVOLVED IN THE PUBLISHING OF THIS BOOK OR THE SELECTION OF THE POEMS.
4. if i have ever been a jerk to you on the forum, don't assume that your submission will be rejected outright... if rubyred likes it, it will probably get in.
okay, and since i love guidelines, here are the general submissions guidelines from the chancepress site:
1. Your submission can be electronic or on paper. If you would like to submit on paper, please email chance.press.books (at) gmail (dot) com first.
2. Your submission must have a cover letter containing, at the very least, your current address and a brief summary of the work you are submitting. If your cover letter mentions Chance Press, there is a significantly higher chance that we will read it.
3. Any subject is fair game... However, please don't submit any poems about writing poetry, poems about poetry, poems about the power of poems, or poems about being a poet. Poems about other poets are okay, though... We just feel pretty strongly that self-referential poems about poems are pretty tired.
4. Simultaneous submissions are ONLY okay IF: you aren't one of those people who send the same 100 poems to 100 different small presses at a time. In other words, we understand that it can be a drag sending a poem to a publisher who holds it hostage for 3 months with no response, but people that abuse simultaneous submissions can expect to have their submissions returned.
5. No literary criticism- thumbs up or thumbs down only. We have had our own poems and stories rejected enough times to know the disappointment and the general "WHY?!!!" that accompanies the rejection of something you thought was genuinely good. There are a lot of reasons we might reject your submission, from us not having the time or resources to publish it at any given time to us just not liking it. Still, we're in the business of making books, not providing literary criticism. There are plenty of great writers' groups you can solicit to get opinions on your work that are probably more useful than whatever we have to say anyway.
maybe this is overkill guideline-wise for our first release, but if you don't like it, start your own small press.
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