Evergreen Award Tour Deadline Extension!

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…

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…

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…