In our 25th year of publishing chapbooks, we are so excited to share the cover for our Floating Bridge Chapbook Competition finalist, Endangered [Animal] by Elizabeth Vignali! The poems are poignant and heady, the cover is glowing—you should probably go pre-order it now! Thank you to Rob Nance for the cover design, Elizabeth Vignali for the amazing poems,…
In our 25th year of publishing chapbooks, we are so excited to share the cover for our Floating Bridge Chapbook Competition winner, Lace by Katrina Roberts! The poems are lush and wild, the cover is evocative—you should probably go pre-order it now! Thank you to Rob Nance for the cover design, Katrina Roberts for the amazing poems,…
Dear poets and supporters of Floating Bride Press, It’s time to announce the winner of our 2019 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Competition! We received many wonderful chapbooks from across Washington State. Each year our task gets harder and harder (much to our joy!) After much deliberation, we chose this year’s winner, Lace, by Katrina Roberts…
Pre-order Jory Mickelson’s stunning debut full-length collection, Wilderness//Kingdom, and be among the first to receive it upon release in the fall of 2019! Head over to our shop to place your pre-order. Here are what a couple of our favorite poets have to say about the inaugural Evergreen Award Tour book: “Jory Mickelson’s Wilderness//Kingdom blew me away with its…
This month, if you buy A Nation (Imagined) by Natasha Kochicheril Moni, we will throw in 2 surprise books for free. No coupon code necessary to get this summertime surprise! Get on over to the shop and snag your books! Read a lovely review of A Nation (Imagined) here. More about the author: Natasha Kochicheril Moni is the author…
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Floating Bridge Press is now accepting submissions of full-length poetry manuscripts for our Evergreen Award Tour. The Evergreen Award Tour is an innovative ten-year-long poetry competition that began in AK/ID/MT/OR/WA. In 2019, our award winner, Jory Mickelson, chose the following region to add: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming. So, entrants for the year…
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…
Hi, friends! We have so much to be excited about right now, our 2018 chapbooks are available for pre-order, our launch reading is coming up on October 21st, and our first ever full-length poetry competition, the Evergreen Award Tour, is accepting submissions. To celebrate all of this good news we want to give you a…