Open Reading Period: Chapbook Manuscripts

Note: the following guidelines are for submissions of chapbook manuscripts only--we will read full-length manuscripts in October 2008 (details forthcoming).

Tarpaulin Sky Press will be reading chapbook manuscripts submitted during the month of August. Manuscripts should be postmarked between August 1 and August 31, 2008. There is no need to query first; simply mail the manuscript according to the directions below.

Writers who have not been published in our literary journal should include a $10 reading fee in the form of a check or a money order made payable to Tarpaulin Sky Press. Past contributors to Tarpaulin Sky may submit their manuscript with a $5 reading fee.

Manuscripts should be in the vicinity of 18-28 pages (give or take a couple). Send one copy of your manuscript along with two copies of the title page (note: the reading process is not"blind"--we ask for two title pages only so that we may keep one with the manuscript, and the other for reference/notes, etc). Be sure that your title pages include your name, address, telephone number, and email address. Cover letters are read with interest. We like to know who your are, what you're up to, and where we can read more of your work. We do accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Individual pieces from the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines and anthologies, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. Manuscripts will not be returned. Please do not send us your only copy.

Mail your submission to

Tarpaulin Sky Press
PO Box 189
Grafton, VT 05146

For notification of decisions, include a business-size SASE. If you would like to receive acknowledgment of the receipt of your manuscript, please include a stamped, self-addressed postcard. Notification of decisions will be made in November 2008. Publication of accepted manuscripts will be in 2009.

If you are not familiar with our press and the type of chapbooks (and full-length books) that we publish, we encourage you to explore our work before submitting, by clicking here and purchasing one of our titles.

Summer Denver Quarterly Gets Us Hot

Denver Quarterly
Vol. 42, No. 4

Featuring Joe Brainard cover art as well as new work by TSky editor Christian Peet, TSky Press author Brandon Shimoda, and a host of rockstars: Erik Anderson, Stephanie Anderson, Anne Blonstein, Julie Phillips Brown, Suzanne Buffam, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Kim Chinquee, Patrick F. Durgin, Kim Evans, Paul Fattaruso, Georges Godeau, Laura Goode, Nathan Hauke, Claire Hero, Garrett Kalleburg, Aby Kaupang, Katalin Keller, Scott McWaters, Eileen Myles, Ron Padgett, Emily Rae, Srikanth Reddy, Forrest Roth, Stephen Sandy, Roy Scranton, Andrew Seguin, D.E. Steward, Michelle Taransky, and Karen Volkman.

Edited by Bin Ramke, Sara Veglahn, Andrea Rexilius, and Erik Anderson.

Submissions update

Submission guidelines

Last updated: 04 August 2008

Submissions to the press

We are reading chapbook manuscripts throughout August 2008. Please click here for details.

We will read full-length manuscripts in October 2008. Details are forthcoming. In the meantime, you might let us get to know you by clicking here and purchasing some of our lovely books.

Submissions to the journal

We are in the process of reading and responding to submissions to the Fall 08 Print Issue and hope to send out all notifications by the end of August.

We are currently open to submissions of reviews only (see below); we are not currently accepting poetry, prose, or "other."

Until we read submissions again (Spring 09), you might let us get to know you by clicking here and purchasing the Fall/Winter 07 issue of our journal or any one of our lovely books.

Submissions of reviews

We read review submissions all year long. Reviewers whose reviews are accepted for publication on tarpaulinsky.com receive any two Tarpaulin Sky Press trade paperbacks of their choice. Send a brief cover letter and your previously unpublished review to
reviews[AT]tarpaulinsky[DOT]com

Publishers may send review copies to
Tarpaulin Sky Press, PO Box 189, Grafton, VT 05146

Review copies currently available:

All titles below are available for review, except for titles marked with asterisks, which are hand-bound books and thus are limited, if still available at all.

Kristin Abraham's Little Red Riding Hood Missed the Bus (Subito Press, 2008)

Robyn Art's The Stunt Double in Winter (Dusie, 2008)

Andrea Baker's True Poems About the River Go Like This (Cannibal Books, 2008)

duncan b. barlow's Super Cell Anemia (Afterbirth Books, 2007)

Ellen Baxt's Analfabeto / An Alphabet (Shearsman Books, 2007)

Hugh and Mary Behm-Steinberg's A Book of Days, Pt.1: Sorcery (Dusie, 2007)

Dan Boehl's Work (Pavement Saw Press, 2007)

Susan Briante’s Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

William Cirocco's aerolith (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007)

Jan Clausen’s From a Glass House (IKON, 2007)

Juliet Cook's Girl Gang (Blood Pudding Press, 2007)*

Juliet Cook's The Laura Poems (Blood Pudding Press, 2006)*

Matthew Cooperman's Daze (Salt, 2006)

Oisin Curran's Mopus (Counterpath Press, 2006)

Catherine Daly's Chanteuse / Cantatrice (Factory School, 2007)

Spencer Dew's Songs of Insurgency (Vagabond Press, 2007)

Mark DuCharme's The Sensory Cabinet (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Hillary Gravendyk's The Naturalist (Achiote Press, 2008)

Carla Harryman's Open Box (Belladonna Books, 2007)

Kim Hyesoon's Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Don Mee Choi, trans., Action Books, 2008)

Christopher Janke’s Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain (Fence Books, 2007)

Michael Kelleher’s Human Scale (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Paige Ackerson Kiely’s In No One's Land (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Rauan Klassnik's Holy Land (Black Ocean Press, 2008)

Pat Lawrence's Journals from the Time of the Radar Dog (BlazeVox Books, 2008)

Robert Levin's When Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot (The Drill Press, 2008)

Reb Livingston's Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books, 2007)

D.S. Marriott's Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman Books, 2008)

Joseph Massey's Out of Light (Kitchen Press, 2008)*

Ben Mazer's The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (Cannibal Books, 2008)*

Clay Matthews' Superfecta (Ghost Road Press, 2008)

Kristi Maxwell's Realm Sixty-Four (Ahsahta Press, 2008)

Karyna McGlynn's Alabama Steve (Destructible Heart Press, 2008)

Thorpe Moeckel's Making a Map of the River (Iris Press, 2008)

Peter Money's Che. (galley, Travel Vox, 2007)

David Mutschlecner’s Sign (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Sawako Nakayasu's nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement//(she (Quale Press, 2006)

Maggie Nelson's Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, 2007)

Robert Nichols's Address to the Smaller Animals (reissue, Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)

Kaya Oakes’ Telegraph (Pavement Saw Press, 2007)

David Oliveira's A Little Travel Story (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)

G.E. Patterson's To and From (Ahsahta Press, 2008)

Adam Peterson's My Untimely Death (Subito Press, 2008)

Chris Pusateri's Anon (BlazeVox Books, 2008)

Barbara Jane Reyes's Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008)

Selah Saterstrom’s The Meat & Spirit Plan (Coffee House Press, 2007)

Kate Schapira's Case Fbdy. (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2008)

Spencer Selby’s Twist of Address (Shearsman Books, 2007)

Young Smith's In A City You Will Never Visit (Black Zinnias, 2007)

Juliana Spahr's The Transformation (Atelos, 2007)

Sampson Starkweather's The Photograph (Horse Less Press, 2007)

Chad Sweeney's An Architecture (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Susan Tichy’s Bone Pagoda (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Mark Tursi's The Impossible Picnic (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Mark Tursi's Shiftless Days (Noemi Press, 2007)

Angela Woodward's The Human Mind (Ravenna Press, 2007)

Theodore Worozbyt's Letters of Transit (UMass Press, 2008)

Journals Available for Review:

Bird Dog #9

Cab/Net #2

Cannot Exist Issue 2

Canvas #2 (Australia)

Copper Nickel #9

Ectoplasmic Necropolis

Equilibrium #7

Fence Volume 11, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2008)

Flint Hills Review #12, 2007

Handsome # 1

The Hat #7

Interim, Vol.26, No.1&2

Model Homes #1

Ocho #17

Oranges & Sardines, Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2008

Parthenon West Review #5

Practice: New Writing + Art #2

President's Choice #1

Small Town Issue XII

Versal Issue 6, 2008

White Fungus #7 (Australia)

White Fungus #8 (Australia)

New from Palm Press

Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space
Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand
128 pages, trade paperback
Palm Press, 2008
ISBN 9780978926243
$15.00

"Imagine — and witness — public space that is produced by us. In Landscapes of Dissent, Sand and Boykoff remind us that there is a long history and ripe presence of intersections between poetry and politics. Don Mitchell is quoted in these pages as saying that public space is “decisive.” In an age in which alienation is among our most prevalent health hazards, Landscapes of Dissent demonstrates that poetry may be newly, again, good for you. This book is a gift. Take the power." —Carol Mirakove

"Landscapes of Dissent is a prolegomenon toward a new topoiesis--the creation of a new topos, a new place. This book brings forth not only the discussion of several practices of disensual use of consensual ("public") space, but also gives away ideas & insights about what takes place thanks to a poetry that makes space in a polis made diapolis. Reading this book I found myself feeling an unknown political emotion that prompts my passive reader to become a reader ready to engage (again) the streets--energized by this discussion in which writing is hope & hope is action. Make it public!" —Heriberto Yepez

"This timely book pushes poetry more firmly into public space at a vibrant historical moment when both the public potential of poetry & the possibilities of public space are being refigured. In Landscapes of Dissent, Boykoff and Sand engage a crucial shift in the relationship of poetry & public space: they do not merely insert poetry into an existing public sphere imagined as a platform, but rather that show us how both poetry & public space take on alternative forms of publicness. These acts of publicness join other creative reclamations to assert politics in a space the neoliberalism frames as seamless & accessible—& therefore post-political. Landscapes of Dissent is expansive & sharp—an important book of political-aesthetic scholarship." —Jeff Derksen

New from Cannibal Books

This Ocean, or Oppen Series
by Joseph Bradshaw

Poetry chapbook, 40 pages, hand-sewn
Cannibal Books, June 2008
$6

Read poems from This Ocean, or Oppen Series in Tarpaulin Sky #13