Celebrate Book Times! | 2018 Chapbook Competition Results

Dear poets and supporters of Floating Bride Press, It’s time to announce the winner of our 2018 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Competition! We received one hundred submissions from across Washington State (with a strong showing from Bellingham!) The editors were particularly impressed with the range of voices and styles this year. After much deliberation, we…

Reminder! 2018 Chapbook Competition

Attention Washington State poets! We are ready to read your chapbooks! Our annual chapbook competition is open to submissions. Floating Bridge Press’s Poetry Chapbook Competition began in 1995 with the publication of Joannie Kervran’s A Steady Longing for Flight. Our annual competition is an open competition for Washington State poets in which manuscripts are judged anonymously. The winning…

2016 Chapbook Competition Results

Floating Bridge Press is pleased to announce the results of its 2016 Washington State Chapbook Competition. This year’s winner is Kate Peterson, from Spokane, for her chapbook Grist. Kate earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University in Spokane, where she now works as an adjunct professor. Her poetry and prose have been published in Glassworks, The…