February Submissions

Reposted from our submission manager, updated this morning:

Howdy, lovely Tarpaulin Sky submitters,

We're almost done reading your February submissions! Sorry it takes a while, but we have precisely

2481 submissions

to read, and we want to make sure that every last one receives the attention it deserves. You can log on to your account to view the status of your submission, but the system will have marked it "received" only; it doesn't give play-by-play status updates, unfortunately--that would be awesome. Instead, you're just getting this little note from TSky publisher Christian Peet, whose hoping that you'll remain patient, even excited. Right now your submissions are in the tender care of the final group of editors: Laynie Browne, Blake Butler, Sandy Florian, Lily Hoang, Joanna Howard, and Karla Kelsey. Hold tight. You'll be hearing from us again, soon!

If you have further questions, feel free to drop a line to TSky's Editor-in-Chief, Colie Collen: ccollen@ "our domain name," where "our domain name" equals tarpaulinsky[dot]com, of course, though it's being rendered in the most awkward way possible here, in an effort to throw off those pesky spambots.

Thank you for your continued support, and thank you for sending work, and thank you for buying the things we publish.. Here's to your June!

Cheers,

Christian

Week One: 466 peeps, 969 submissions. Send yours while the editors can still read.

With three weeks still to go . . .

I'm sure the editors won't let exhaustion interfere with their judgment.

But if I were submitting, I probably wouldn't want to be last in the queue.

Just sayin'--

Open Reading Period: Full-Length Manuscripts

Tarpaulin Sky Press will be reading full-length manuscripts (48+ pages) submitted during the month of October. There is no need to query first; simply mail the manuscript according to the directions below.

Manuscripts should be postmarked between October 1 and October 31, 2008. Writers who have not been published in our literary journal should include a $20 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 $10 reading fee.

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, anthologies, and short-run chapbooks, 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 February 2008. Publication of accepted manuscripts will be in 2009 & 2010.

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

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.

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)

Now Reading Submissions for Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal (Print Issue #2)

During April 2008 we will read submissions for Tarpaulin Sky's second print issue, which will be published (simultaneously with web-only content as well as web-samples from the print edition) in Fall 2008. The submission period will close April 30, 2008, and we'll make every attempt to reply to all submissions by July 2008.

If you like our journal enough to send us a submission, we hope you'll like it enough to buy it and support the press that publishes it. Consider clicking here and purchasing the Fall/Winter 07 issue of our journal, or any of our lovely books.

Include a brief cover letter with your submission—we appreciate knowing a little about your life, your writing, and where we might read more of your work. Please limit longer work to a single submission of 3000 words or less. Combine shorter work (4-6 poems, shorter prose pieces, etc) into one file; do not send multiple attachments if you can help it.

Email your submission to submissions[at]tarpaulinsky[dot]com. In order to avoid the spam filters, it is important that your subject header contains the word "submission," followed by your name. Submissions that do not follow this format run the risk of being accidentally deleted.

If you need to send a paper submission, please mail it to Tarpaulin Sky Press, PO Box 189, Grafton, VT 05146

Payment includes a contributor copy of the issue, discounts on additional copies, and instant fame.