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,…
We are so excited to share the cover for our first ever Evergreen Award Tour winner, Wilderness//Kingdom by Jory Mickelson! The poems are brilliant and sharp, the cover is gorgeous—you should probably go pre-order it now! Thank you to Connor Rentz for the cover design, Jory Mickelson for the amazing poems, and all of…
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…
As part of Jack Straw May Reading series, Rena Priest (Floating Bridge Press author of Sublime Subliminal) will be reading with Jack Straw Fellows Dianne Aprile, Shankar Narayan, and Sylvia Byrne Pollack this Friday, May 3rd, 7pm. The event is hosted by program curator Kathleen Flenniken (former Floating Bridge Press President). Admission to each reading is a $5…
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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…
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…