In our 25th year of publishing chapbooks, we are so excited to share the cover for our Floating Bridge Chapbook Competition finalist, Endangered [Animal] by Elizabeth Vignali! The poems are poignant and heady, the cover is glowing—you should probably go pre-order it now! Thank you to Rob Nance for the cover design, Elizabeth Vignali for the amazing poems,…
In our 25th year of publishing chapbooks, we are so excited to share the cover for our Floating Bridge Chapbook Competition winner, Lace by Katrina Roberts! The poems are lush and wild, the cover is evocative—you should probably go pre-order it now! Thank you to Rob Nance for the cover design, Katrina Roberts for the amazing poems,…
We are so excited to share our 2018 chapbook covers with you! We love them! What do you think? We are all black and blue this year, but nothing about this hurts. Want to add these beauties to your personal library? Keep on reading… First up, is Natasha Kochicheril Moni’s A Nation (Imagined), winner of…
Hi there, friends! Floating Bridge Press is so excited about our upcoming chapbooks and can’t wait to see you at our launch reading on October 21st! We are equally excited about our new full-length competition. So we’ve got great news on both fronts. Since we are a group of dedicated volunteer editors who love to…
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…
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…
AN EVENING OF POETRY At Fremont Library Monday, January 8, 2018, 6:30 – 7:45pm Join us for a quarterly poetry series where local poets read from their work and discuss poetry with the audience. This evening’s featured readers are: Claudia Castro Luna, Catherine Bull, & Scott Ferry. Claudia Castro Luna served as Seattle’s Civic Poet from 2015…
We have a lot of new and exciting things to share with you this year! Stay tuned and follow along with us here (and Twitter and Facebook). And make sure to keep an eye on Pontoon Poetry — new poems are coming your way soon! To start of the New Year, here is a poem…
Dear Floating Friends, Some of you know me, others may not. Either way, please allow me to introduce myself. Hi, my name is Michael Schmeltzer. I am a reader, author, editor, and as of a few short weeks ago, the newly appointed President of Floating Bridge Press. It’s a role I take on with joy,…
(Drum roll please….) Okay Poets, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. But first, whether you submitted or not, we just want to say thank you for your support and interest. We again received more than one hundred submissions from all across Washington State. We feel this year’s submissions were especially strong, start to finish.…