The Chapbook

By: Noah Stetzer and Ross White
  • Summary

  • Noah Stetzer and Ross White, editors at Bull City Press, reveal the secrets of chapbooks—writing, editing, and publishing them—and take you behind the scenes at some chapbook presses. Contact the podcast with questions & comments using chapbook [at] bullcitypress.com; look for Bull City Press online at www.bullcitypress.com. Twitter: @bullcitypress; Noah Stetzer @dcnoah; Ross White @rosswhite
    2022 Bull City Press
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Episodes
  • 50. Adrie Rose of Nine Syllables Press
    Oct 13 2022

    We chat with Adrie Rose the Tammis Day Editorial Fellow & Editor of the brand new NINE SYLLABLES PRESS.

    UPDATE: Nine Syllables Press twitter: https://twitter.com/9SyllablesPress

    Nine Syllables Press: as of the posting of this episode, we haven't got any links yet, but we will update this space once 9SP goes live online

    Adrie Rose is the Tammis Day Editorial Fellow & Editor of Nine Syllables Press. Born and raised across the Southeast US coast, Adrie currently lives in western MA with her two children. She graduated from culinary school and owned a bakery for a decade, then returned to school to finish her bachelor's degree at Smith College as an Ada Comstock Scholar. She is currently attending Warren Wilson College for her MFA in Poetry.

    Her work has previously appeared in Nimrod, The Night Heron Barks, Underblong, Witness, and more. She won the Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize, the Ethel Olin Corbin Prize, and the Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize in 2021, and the Anne Bradstreet Prize, the Eleanor Cederstrom Prize, and the Mary Augusta Jordan Prize in 2022. Her poem “The Anthropocene” was nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize and she has work forthcoming in anthologies with Anhinga Press and Porkbelly Press. She volunteers as a reader for Perugia Press, read manuscripts for the Juniper Prize at UMass Amherst in 2021, and was Editor-in-Chief of Emulate at Smith College in '21-22.

    Adrie Rose website: https://www.adrierose.com/about

    Adrie Rose twitter: https://twitter.com/AdrieLovesPie

    The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center/Smith College: https://www.smith.edu/academics/poetry-center

    Perugia Press: https://perugiapress.org/about/

    VIDA: https://www.vidaweb.org/

    Paper and Stick
    Priscilla Wathington (Tram Editions): https://trameditions.com/paper-and-stick-by-priscilla-wathington/

    Broadside Books (Northampton): https://www.broadsidebooks.com/

    Thank you for listening to The Chapbook we'll be back in 2023 with season three!


    Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah


    Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite


    You can find all our episodes & contact us with your chapbook questions & suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/


    Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.com


    Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress


    Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/


    and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress


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    20 mins
  • 49. Gaia Rajan: Killing It (Black Lawrence Press)
    Oct 6 2022

    In today's episode, we welcome the incredible Gaia Rajan to discuss her collection KILLING IT (Black Lawrence Press).

    Gaia Rajan is the author of the chapbooks Moth Funerals (Glass Poetry Press 2020) and Killing It (Black Lawrence Press 2022). Her work is published or forthcoming in the 2022 Best of the Net anthology, The Kenyon Review, THRUSH, Split Lip Magazine, diode, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the cofounder of the WOC Speak Reading Series, the Junior Journal Editor for Half Mystic, and the Web Manager for Honey Literary. She is the first place winner of the Princeton Leonard P. Milberg Poetry Prize, Sarah Mook Poetry Prize, and 1455 Literary Festival Contest, and a runner up for the Smith College Poetry Prize, Nancy Thorp Poetry Prize, and Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize. Gaia is an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University, studying computer science and creative writing. She lives in Pittsburgh.

    Gaia Rajan website: http://www.gaiarajan.com/

    Gaia Rajan Twitter: https://twitter.com/gaiarajan

    Gaia Rajan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaiarajan/

    KILLING IT (Black Lawrence Press): https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/killing-it/

    K-Ming Chang: https://www.kmingchang.com/about

    Molasses Books (Bushwick): https://www.instagram.com/molassesbooks/

    Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!


    Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah


    Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite


    You can find all our episodes & contact us with your chapbook questions & suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/


    Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.com


    Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress


    Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/


    and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress


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    15 mins
  • 48. News You Can Use: September 2022
    Sep 29 2022

    We've got the latest chapbook titles and chapbook submission deadlines in this month's NEWS YOU CAN USE!

    NEW TITLES

    Something Bright by Ryler Dustin (Green Linden Press): https://www.greenlindenpress.com/books/something-bright

    At Night My Body Waits by Saúl Hernández' (Two Sylvias Press): https://www.twosylviaspress.com/at-night-my-body-waits.html

    The Stars With You by Stefani Cox (Cooper Dillon): https://store.cooperdillon.com/product/the-stars-with-you-by-stefani-cox

    Animal, Roadkill, Ashes, Gone by Emily Pittinos (coming in 11/8 from Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/animal-roadkill-ashes-gone-by-emily-pittinos/

    Figment by Leila Chatti (coming in 11/8 from Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/figment-by-leila-chatti-hardcover/

    SUBMISSIONS

    THE FLORIDA REVIEW: https://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/submit/chapbook-contest/

    THE MASTERS REVIEW: https://mastersreview.com/chapbook-contest/

    SIXTH FINCH: https://sixthfinch.com/submit

    MINERVA RISING PRESS: https://minervarising.com/submissions/chapbook-submissions/

    DIODE EDITIONS: https://www.diodeeditions.com/chapbook-contest

    also check out submission databases at:

    HEAVY FEATHER: https://heavyfeatherreview.org/calls/


    DRIFTWOOD: https://www.driftwoodpress.com/submission-opportunities


    CHILL SUBS: https://chillsubs.com


    PODCASTS

    POEMS ON AIR: https://www.lapl.org/books-emedia/podcasts/poems-on-air

    FIRST DRAFT: https://firstdraftwriters.com/about

    BETWEEN THE COVERS: https://tinhouse.com/podcasts/

    Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!


    Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah


    Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite


    You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/


    Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.com


    Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress


    Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/


    and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress

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