Chapbook Manuscripts: ​

• 18-24 pages of poetry (not including title page, table of contents, endnotes)

• Can be any form or topic, though we find a unifying theme works best

• Begin each new poem on a new page

• Your name should not appear anywhere in or on the manuscript

• Individual poems may be previously published, with acknowledgements

• Simultaneous submissions accepted. Please notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere

• Absolutely no submissions that are racist, homophobic, misogynist, discriminatory, or hateful.

• No AI-generated texts nor AI-modified texts. Human-created poems only.

Selection & Publication:​

• Manuscript(s) will be selected by Lefty Blondie Press editors

• We will select at least one manuscript each year, more if we are able to support additional titles

• Lefty Blondie Press will print 250 carefully edited, handbound, hand-cut, and hand-numbered chapbooks 

• ​​​​​Lefty Blondie Press holds first serial rights for work that we publish, and the right to reprint that work in other formats with your permission.

• Upon publication, all rights revert to the author. 

• Please cite Lefty Blondie Press if your poems published with LBP are published elsewhere in the future.

Poet of Selected Manuscript Receives: 

• 10 (ten) author copies

• 40% off any additional author copies

• Praise, adoration, and promotion through social media, literary festivals, independent booksellers, & any other collaborations LBP seeks out.

Pay-What-You-Can Reading Fee: 

• We suggest $10-$20 reading fee per manuscript submission, but please feel free to submit and skip the reading fee. 

• ALL manuscripts are read by LBP editors and readers with openness and attention, regardless of what you're able to add to our tip jar. 

• ​All tip jar donations support LBP's mission to promote the poetry of self-identifying women and non-binary people.

• To submit through Duosuma, you need a free personal Duotrope account.