Chapbook Competition now OPEN!

Our annual Washington State Poetry Chapbook Competition is now open! If you live in Washington State and have a chapbook of poems looking for a home, come knock on our doors. We offer a sliding scale entry fee ($15, $10, $5) to help combat financial inequity and all entrants will receive a copy of the…

WA State Chapbook Competition Now OPEN!

Our annual Washington State Poetry Chapbook Competition is now open! If you live in Washington State and have a chapbook of poems looking for a home, come knock on our doors. We offer a sliding scale entry fee to help combat financial inequity ($15, $10, $5) and all entrants will receive a copy of the…

2019 Book Cover Reveal: Lace by Katrina Roberts

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,…

June Book Sale!

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…

October 21 at 3 pm | Reading at Elliott Bay Book Company

“This afternoon, in what has become a fall tradition for us, we help celebrate new work published by Floating Bridge Press. Poet and prose writer Natasha Kochicheril Moni will read from A Nation (Imagined), the winner of this year’s Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. Her previous books include The Cardiologist’s Daughter. Rena Priest, whose first book, Patriarchy Blues,…

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…