The Pecan Grove Press National Chapbook Competition has not been conducted for the past four years while the press has been extricating itself from a a massive backlog caused by the editor's wanting to print too many of the wonderful manuscripts submitted and, simultaneously, recovering from a series of unfortunate hospitalizations.

Some recent chapbooks at only $6 each (if ordered while entering the competion):

Wendy Barker's Between Frames
Tim Myers's That Mass at Which the Tongue Is Celebrant
Vince Gotera's Fighting Kite
Paricia Fargnoli's Small Songs of Pain
Jill Alexander Essbaum's Oh Forbidden
Catherine Kasper's    A Gradual Disappearance of Insects
Angela Consolo Mankiewicz's An Eye

Requirements:

• Chapbook manuscripts should be between 28 and 32 pages.
• The poems should work together as if they were paintings in an exhibition.
• Individual poems within the manucript may have been published in literary magazines, but may not have been published together as a book or chapbook.
• A non-refundable entry fee of $15 must be included. If the manuscript is simultaneously submitted and subsequently wins another chapbook competition or is accepted for publication by another press, the entry fee will not be refunded.
• There must be two title pages: one with the title of the manuscript and the names of the first three poems, plus the poet’s name and address; the second should be identical but should not include the poet’s name or address.
• The poet’s name must not appear on any page of the actual manuscript.
• The poet must own the copyright to the poems in the work or be able to secure permission to reprint any copyrighted poem included.
• The winning poet must be able to submit a copy of the poems in Word format as an attachment via email to Pecan Grove Press or provide the complete manuscript in Word format on a CD..
• SASE, for notification only, must be included with submission. manuscripts will not be returned.

Note: Email submissions are not accepted.

Chapbooks from Pecan Grove Press are professionally printed with index stock covers. All chapbooks are perfect bound. The poet with the winning chapbook submission will receive $250.00 plus 10 copies of the chapbook. Additional copies may be purchased at 40% off list price.

Mail submissions with SASE (notification only, manuscripts will be recycled and not returned) to:

H. Palmer Hall, Editor
Pecan Grove Press
Box AL
1 Camino Santa Maria
San Antonio, Texas 78228-8608

While we recommend reading (and purchasing) a GP chapbook, that is not a requirement.  You can see a list of all our books by visiting http://library.stmarytx.edu/pgpress/authors/index.html

Poets entering the PGP National Chapbook Competitions may order any of the press's books or chapbooks at the time they send their entries at the prices listed to the left and below.  All other PGP books may be ordered at a $2 discount with submission and payment of the entry fee.

	Janet McCann's Emily's Dress	Tom C. Hunley's My Life as a minor Character	H. Palmer Hall's Reflections from Pete's Pond	Gwyn McVay's This Natural History (SS)	Ron Mohring's Beneficence (SS)	Carol Reposa's The Green Room (SS)

The chapbooks above are on sale for $5.  The ones marked (SS) are saddlestitched. All other are perfect bound.  For a discussion of chapbooks, please visit On Chapbooks and Books by H. Palmer Hall.

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