Congratulations, Jennifer Blackledge: 2025 Lefty Blondie Press 1st Chapbook Award Runner-Up!
- Anna Febbraro
- Nov 4
- 1 min read
Jennifer Blackledge's chapbook manuscript, 1-800-PACK-RAT, was selected as First Runner-Up by our 2025 judge, Stacey Waite
Jennifer Blackledge is a poet who works for a global automotive company and lives just south of Detroit. She is the recipient of the 2025 Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize and her work has appeared in publications like JAMA, Rattle, I-70 Review, Kestrel, and SWWIM. You can find her work at www.jenniferblackledge.com.
Open to self-identifying women or non-binary poets of any age & any publishing history!
The Poet of the Selected Poem will Receive:
25 (twenty-five) copies of their poem in an original limited-edition handset letterpress broadside designed and printed by Ryan Kaune
Praise, adoration, and promotion through social media, literary festivals, independent booksellers, & any other collaborations LBP seeks out.
Finalists may be offered publication as part of LBP's Letterpress Series
Reading Fee:
Pay-what-you-can reading fee via Duosuma tip jar through November 15th! We want to read your work & we don't want the reading fee to keep you from submitting.
BEGINNING November 16, 2025: $5 reading fee per submission
ALL submissions are read by LBP editors & 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.
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