Grist Reviewed in Ploughshares

The lovely Kimberly Ann Southwick reviewed 3 award-winning chapbooks (all by women!) over at Ploughshares and Floating Bridge Press’s very own Kate Peterson was included. Read the whole review here. Thank you Kimberly, for this great review! Peterson is at her best when allowing her speaker to muse on a body’s perceived abnormalities in a way…

Grist: Reviewed by Drizzle

Over at Drizzle Review Rebecca Valley kindly and beautifully reviewed Kate Peterson’s Grist, our 2016 Chapbook Competition winning chapbook. Check out the full review here.   “Though at moments this collection feels fragile, like it is teetering on the edge of collapse, Grist is as much a book about healing as it is about being wounded.…

October Readings

October is an exciting month for Floating Bridge Press.  We have 3 new chapbooks coming out to join the recently published This City. Here is where you can catch our poetry in October: This Thursday, October 6th Claudia Castro Luna will be reading for her book launch at The Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle at…

Cover Reveal: Grist

Drumroll please …. here is the cover for Kate Peterson’s chapbook, Grist. Grist won our chapbook competition this year and the poems inside are just as beautiful as the cover. Check out the covers for The Ark and The Bear and Land of Lists too.  You don’t want to miss out on these chapbooks, so stay…

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…