We are so excited to share the cover for our first ever Evergreen Award Tour winner, Wilderness//Kingdom by Jory Mickelson! The poems are brilliant and sharp, the cover is gorgeous—you should probably go pre-order it now! Thank you to Connor Rentz for the cover design, Jory Mickelson for the amazing poems, and all of…
Bellingham Author Deal! Pre-order Bellingham’s own Jory Mickelson’s debut full-length collection, Wilderness//Kingdom and we will send along Bellingham-ster Nancy Pagh’s winning chapbook, After (2008), for free!
Dear poets and supporters of Floating Bride Press, It’s time to announce the winner of our 2019 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Competition! We received many wonderful chapbooks from across Washington State. Each year our task gets harder and harder (much to our joy!) After much deliberation, we chose this year’s winner, Lace, by Katrina Roberts…
Pre-order Jory Mickelson’s stunning debut full-length collection, Wilderness//Kingdom, and be among the first to receive it upon release in the fall of 2019! Head over to our shop to place your pre-order. Here are what a couple of our favorite poets have to say about the inaugural Evergreen Award Tour book: “Jory Mickelson’s Wilderness//Kingdom blew me away with its…
This month, if you buy A Nation (Imagined) by Natasha Kochicheril Moni, we will throw in 2 surprise books for free. No coupon code necessary to get this summertime surprise! Get on over to the shop and snag your books! Read a lovely review of A Nation (Imagined) here. More about the author: Natasha Kochicheril Moni is the author…
As part of Jack Straw May Reading series, Rena Priest (Floating Bridge Press author of Sublime Subliminal) will be reading with Jack Straw Fellows Dianne Aprile, Shankar Narayan, and Sylvia Byrne Pollack this Friday, May 3rd, 7pm. The event is hosted by program curator Kathleen Flenniken (former Floating Bridge Press President). Admission to each reading is a $5…
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To access links and download announcement, please click here. To read the winning poem, please click here. To learn more about the Paula Jones Gardiner Memorial Award, please click here.
Floating Bridge Press is now accepting submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts for our Evergreen Award Tour. The Evergreen Award Tour is an innovative ten-year-long poetry competition that began in AK/ID/MT/OR/WA. In 2019, our award winner, Jory Mickelson, chose the following region to add: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming. So, entrants for the year…
This month, get your fill of the bears and the bees as both come back thanks to the arrival of spring! Buy a copy of The Ark and The Bear by Arlene Naganawa (Finalist of the 2016 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Competition) and get a copy of Yesterday, the Bees by Maya Jewell Zeller (Finalist of the 2015 Floating…