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2009 Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition Guidelines & 2009 Bright Hill Press Poetry full-length Book Guidelines Below BRIGHT HILL PRESS 15TH ANNUAL CHAPBOOK COMPETITION - 2009 - POETRY ONLY GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION   POSTMARK DEADLINE: July 31, 2009.  Submissions with a later postmark date will be discarded.   NOTIFICATION DATES:  Results will be announced in FALL/WINTER 2010, publication 2010.   MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS: 1)  Send 16-24 pages, plus bio, table of contents, acknowledgments page, and title page.  No dot-matrix, but good photocopies acceptable.  Manuscript must be paginated and secured by spring or bulldog clip.    2)  MANUSCRIPTS WILL BE JUDGED ANONYMOUSLY.   Include two title pages:  one with title only; one with title, author's name, address, and telephone.  (Poems may be published in journals or anthologies; attach acknowledgments page to title page with author's name, address, and telephone.)   3)  Manuscripts will not be returned; include SASE for results only.   3)  More than one manuscript may be submitted but each requires a reading fee.   4) Simultaneous submissions are acceptable but Bright Hill Press must be notified if the manuscript is taken elsewhere.   READING FEE: $13; $10 Word Thursdays/Bright Hill Press members.  IF YOU INCLUDE A 5" X 7" SASE WITH $1.50 POSTAGE, WE WILL SEND YOU, FREE, A COPY OF A RECENT WINNING POETRY CHAPBOOK.   THE WINNING ENTRY: WINNER RECEIVES PUBLICATION, $300, and 30 copies of his/her professionally printed chapbook, which will be nationally advertised and distributed.  Additional copies will be sent to reviewers.                    ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­   P.O. BOX 193, TREADWELL, NY  13846                                                                 PH. 607-829-5055 - FAX 607-829-5056                                                 Web Site: www.brighthillpress.org; E-mail: wordthur@stny.rr.com     SOME BRIGHT HILL PRESS CHAPBOOK TITLES: Haywire (Rachel Contreni Flynn); Skunk Night Sonnets (Daniel Waters); Love in the End (Mary Kay Rummel); Effects of Sunlight in the Fog (Alan Catlin); The Lily Poems (Liz Rosenberg); Picking Up (Evelyn Duncan); The Cut Worm (Douglas Korb); The Spirit of the Walrus (ElisaVietta Ritchie, forthcoming), Walking Back the Cat (Lynn Pattison, forthcoming), LightsOut (Tom Lavazzi, forthoming), Web-Watching (Bruce Bennett), The Last Best Motif (Naton Leslie) Possum (Shelby Stephenson, Best Poetry Book by a North Carolinian in 2004); First Probe to Antarctica (Barry Ballard); Inspiration Point (Matthew J. Spireng); What Falls Away (Steve Lautermilch); Boxes (Lisa Harris); The Man Who Went Out for Cigarettes (Adrian Blevins-Church); and Whatever Was Ripe (William Jolliff).  FOR A FREE CATALOG SEND SASE (with $1.03 postage) TO BHP, POB 193 - 94 Church St., TREADWELL NY 13846-0193. BRIGHT HILL PRESS 15TH ANNUAL POETRY BOOK COMPETITION - 2009 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONPOSTMARK DEADLINE November 30, 2009. Submissions with a later postmark date will be discarded. FREE BRIGHT HILL PRESS FULL-LENGTH POETRY BOOK Include sturdy padded 6 x 9 or sturdy 9 x 12 envelope with $2.50 postage, and we will send you a free, award-winning Bright Hill Press Poetry Book.NOTIFICATION DATES Results will be announced in 2010; publication 2011MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS Send 48-64 pages, plus bio, table of contents, acknowledgments page, and title page. No dot-matrix, but good photocopies acceptable. Manuscript must be paginated and secured by bulldog or spring clip; no bound manuscripts or manuscripts in book form.MANUSCRIPTS WILL BE JUDGED ANONYMOUSLY 1.Include 2 title pages: one with title only; one with title, author's name, address, and telephone. Poems may be published in journals or anthologies; attach acknowledgments page to title page with author's name, address, telephone, and e-mail. 2. Manuscripts will not be returned; include SASE for results only. 3. More than one manuscript may be submitted but each requires a reading fee. 4. Simultaneous submissions are accpetable but Bright Hill Press must be notified if the manuscript is taken elsewhere.READING FEE $25; $17 Word Thursdays/Bright Hill Press members (for information on how to join the organization, e-mail us at wordthur@stny.rr.com THE WINNING ENTRYWinner receives publication, $1000, and 25 copies of his/her professionally printed book; review copies will be sent to more than 20 reviewers. BHP will advertise the book in national publications and market it by retail and through distributors. Send to: Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition, POB 193, Treadwell, NY 13846-0193SOME BRIGHT HILL PRESS FULL-LENGTH POETRY BOOKS: Infinite Beginnings (Lucyna Prostko) forthcoming; How the Brain Grew Back Its Own History (Liz Beasley); Need-Fire (Becky Gould Gibson); The Artist As Alice: From a Photographer’s Life (Darcy Cummings); The Aerialist (Victoria Hallerman); Strange Gravity (Lisa Rhoades); The Singer's Temple (Barbara Hurd); Heart, with Piano Wire (Richard Deutch); Every Infant's Blood: New and Selected Poems (Graham Duncan); My Father and Miro (Claudia Reder); Traveling Through Glass (Beth Copeland Vargo); To Fit Your Heart into the Body (Judith Neeld); Blue Wolves (Regina O'Melveny); My Own Hundred Doors (Pam Bernard). BRIGHT HILL PRESS ANTHOLOGIES: Out of the Catskills and Just Beyond: Literary and Visual Works by Catskill Writers and Artists, with a Special Section by Catskill High-School Students; Iroquois Voices, Iroquois Visions: A Celebration of Contemporary Six Nations Arts; Speaking the Words Anthology; On the Watershed, The Second Word Thursdays Anthology; others.