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Hatters’ Review and a production of MadHat Arts Inc. MadHat Press seeks to
foster the work of writers and poets: explosive, lyrical, passionate, deeply
wrought voices that stretch the boundaries of language, narrative and image,
vital and enduring literary voices that sing on the page as well as in the
mind.
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Carolina, and with our Managing Editor currently situated in Reykjavik,
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from the emerging to the emergent, from the multicultural to the insolent.
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To inaugurate the official birth of MadHat Press, CAConrad, Philly poet
extraordinaire and author of the gripping collection, The Book of Frank
(Wave 2010), will be judging the first poetry chapbook competition. Future
MadHat Press chapbook competitions will include flash-fiction, short story,
and novella categories.
MadHat Press places great emphasis on the aesthetics of design, typography
and the printed word. It is MadHat Press’s vision to connect the reader with
the physicality of the book in its creative unraveling. The Press will also
publish aesthetically pleasing e-books.
Please note guidelines for the “Wild and Wyrd” poetry chapbook competition
below. We look forward to receiving your submissions.
MadHat Press
2011
“Wild and Wyrd” Inaugural Poetry Chapbook Competition
June 15 – August 31
MadHat Press, an offspring of the non-profit innovative and collaborative
arts organization MadHat, Inc., invites submissions of poetry manuscripts
for its first chapbook contest. The genre “poetry” is broad and includes
prose and conceptual poetry. There are no restrictions regarding form,
style, or content.
This inaugural contest will be judged by CAConrad.
CAConrad is the author of The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), Advanced
Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press,
2006), and a collaboration with Frank Sherlock, The City Real & Imagined
(Factory School Press, 2010). He has a new book of poetry forthcoming, A
Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012). He lives in Philadelphia
and writes with his friends at PhillySound, and he is a co-founder of PACE:
Poet-Activist Community Extension. Look for him at
http://CAConrad.blogspot.com <http://caconrad.blogspot.com/>.
WINNERS
FIRST PRIZE
$US500.00 and five copies of the perfectly bound chapbook will be awarded
to the first prize winner. If the book is co-authored, each of the two
authors will be awarded $250.00 and three copies. The winning manuscript
will be issued as a professionally designed, typeset and printed chapbook
with a color cover, and cataloged with an ISBN number and copyright
information. Additional copies will be available to the author at cost plus
postage. Three to five poems from the book, selected by the author/s, will
be published in Issue 13 of Mad Hatters’ Review. The book will be available
for purchase on amazon.com and possibly, other popular venues. Depending on
the geographical situation of the winning author, the editors will arrange a
book launch in a venue in the U.S.; should this not prove feasible, an
online book launch will be arranged, including a podcast with audio excerpts
of the winning work.
SECOND PRIZE
The manuscript of the second prize winner will be published as a MadHat
Press e-book, downloadable via Mad Hatters’ Review.
FINALISTS
Poems by two finalists will be published in Issue 13 of Mad Hatters’
Review. CAConrad will select three to five poems from each winning author’s
manuscript.
ENTRY GUIDELINES
Each manuscript must consist of 26 – 36 pages in single-spaced 12 Point
Times Roman font, page-numbered, but otherwise no identifying information,
and sent as PDF file or in Word (.doc) format to:
http://madhatter.submishmash.com/Submit
Individual pieces may have been published elsewhere, but the manuscript
should not have been published previously as a whole, either in a chapbook
or a full-length work. Your submission of previously published poems
includes an acknowledgment that you hold the copyright. Please provide us
with acknowledgments of these pieces in your cover letter.
You may make multiple submissions; however, an $18 fee paid through
Submishmash must accompany each entry. We accept simultaneous submissions,
but ask that you withdraw your submission through the Submishmash system if
your work is accepted elsewhere. No refunds will be provided for partial or
full withdrawals.
When preparing submissions, please make sure that in your substantive
(manuscript) attachment, your work does not include any identifying
information within the title or body of your entry. Please provide a list of
the proposed book title, along with a table of contents, including all poem
titles in your manuscript. Manuscripts will be read “blind.”
Note that any manuscript containing the author’s name or other identifying
information will not be considered and the entry fee will not be returned.
In your separate cover letter, provide relevant contact information
including full name, mailing address, email address, telephone number and a
short bio.
CONTEST READING PERIOD: ??Contest entries will be accepted from June 15,
2011, 12:00 a.m. US EST through August 31, 2011, 11:59 p.m. US EST. Any
contest submissions received outside of this submission period will not be
considered. Winners will be announced no later than November 1, 2011, 12:59
p.m. ??ELIGIBILITY: ??In accord with MadHat Press’s mission and vision,
English-language submissions from non-U.S. residents and/or citizens are
welcome.
For queries or otherwise, please email the editors at: press@madhatarts.com