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Submit an original poetry manuscript (up to 450 lines or 21 pages) for a chapbook competition where the winning manuscript will be professionally hand-produced in a limited edition of 100 copies and presented at a public reading.
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Get matched →Center for Book Arts invites submissions to its annual Poetry Chapbook Program. Each year a distinguished guest judge selects one winning manuscript and two runners-up. CBA commissions artists to hand-produce a limited-edition run of 100 chapbooks for the winning manuscript, a limited-edition run of 100 chapbooks for a manuscript selected by the guest judge, and a limited-edition broadside of 100 for each runner-up, featuring one poem from their respective manuscripts. The program pairs the craft of letterpress, RISO, hand-binding, and fine printing with contemporary poetry manuscripts, culminating in a public reading and publication launch.
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Submit online. CBA cannot provide feedback on submissions due to application volume; all applicants are notified of their manuscript's status by email.