FBP Events Saturday, March 9th, Bellevue Community College, Book Fair Saturday, March 30th, Portland AWP and NW Micropress Fair Author News Holly Hughes’ chapbook, Passings, the first edition from Expedition Press sold out last year, but Wandering Aengus Press will be reprinting it and it’s due out in March, in time for AWP. AWP Portland…
We are so pleased to announce that Jory Mickelson’s book Wilderness//Kingdom is the winner of our inaugural Evergreen Award Tour Full-length Book Competition! We cannot wait to share this book with you. We will keep you updated on when Jory’s book will be released. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to keep up to…
We at Floating Bridge Press are so excited to partner with the Allied Arts Foundation to bring you the Allied Arts Foundation Poetry Award. Thanks to their generous support this annual award will provide $250 to the single best poem submitted to our Evergreen Award Tour! The Allied Arts Foundation Poetry Award is an annual…
“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,…
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Get your copy of My Idea of Fun by Brian Cooney here. (And for the month of February we will pick & send you a free book for every book you order!)
Congratulations to Floating Bridge Press author Claudia Castro Luna who recently took over as Washington State Poet Laureate. We are over the moon for Claudia and the State of Washington! We can’t wait to see the waves she makes in her new role bringing poetry to every valley and seaside town of our state. Get…
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…
Looking for a new book of poems to fall in love with? Lucky for you our 2017 chapbook authors are here with their recommendations! Katy E. Ellis, author of Night Watch, recommends… Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (Copper Canyon Press, 2016) I love the huge range of form in these poems and…
Michael can’t wait to read The Undressing by Li-Young Lee in February 2018. Meghan is excited for the release of Paige Lewis’ Reasons to Wake You from Tupelo Press in 2018. John is waiting with bated breath to read Jenny George’s The Dream of Reason coming April 2018 from Copper Canyon Press. Ron couldn’t contain his…