Sherry Chandler

Steel Toe Books Open Reading Period

I picked this up from Allison Joseph’s CRWROPPS mailing list (don’t ask me what crwropps stands for – I think I knew once upon a time, but no more, but it’s a good market resource):

Rather than running a contest this year, Steel Toe Books is holding an open reading period during the months of June and July. Send a full-length poetry manuscript (48-72 pages). There will be no celebrity judge and no prize money, but we do plan to offer one author a royalties contract. There’s no reading fee, but we ask everyone who submits to purchase one of our existing titles directly from us. James Doyle’s book Einstein Considers a Sand Dune, selected by David Kirby as the winner of the 2003 Steel Toe Books Prize in Poetry, costs $10. Diary of a Cell, by Jennifer Gresham, selected by Charles Harper Webb as the 2004 winner, sells for $12.

You can read reviews of James Doyle’s book at here. The web site also has links to a Verse Daily feature on the book and Garrison Keillor reading one poem from it on NPR.

Send manuscript and check to
Steel Toe Books
English Department
20-C Cherry Hall
Western Kentucky University
1 Big Red Way
Bowling Green, KY 42101-3576

I have Einstein Considers a Sand Dune and can assure you that it is good value for the money.

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