FBP Evergreen Award Tour

*Update (11/10/20): We here at Floating Bridge Press have experienced multiple staffing disruptions due to the continuing pandemic. At this time, we need to postpone our book competitions while we reorganize, and hopefully we can pick up where we left off. Stay tuned and feel free to contact us at any time!

Floating Bridge Press’s Evergreen Award Tour is an innovative ten-year-long poetry competition beginning in AK/ID/MT/OR/WA. Each year’s selected poet chooses a new five-state region until the E.A.T. becomes a national competition. In 2019, our award winner, Jory Mickelson, chose the following region to add: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming!

The Floating Bridge Press Evergreen Award Tour welcomes submissions from emerging as well as established poets. Entrants for the year of 2019 must reside in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, or Wyoming. (If your state isn’t listed, please check back when we announce our results to see which region our next poet chooses to add!)

The winner receives $500 (minimum prize with a growing bonus based on the number of entrants), book publication (hardcover & paperback), and 25 author copies. Winner will have the opportunity to choose where the Evergreen Award Tour goes next.

All entrants are considered for the Allied Arts Foundation Poetry Award, with a prize of $250.

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General Guidelines

Floating Bridge Press reads manuscripts for our Evergreen Award Tour from April 1st to October 31st (midnight PST). Here are a few guidelines to make your job (and let’s be honest, our job) a little easier:

    • We read and judge all submissions anonymously, so please do not to include your name or any identifying information in your manuscript. Make sure to complete all contact information on Submittable (it is hidden from our readers).
    • Manuscripts should be 48-80 pages of poetry, typed in a no less than 12 point font, paginated, and include a title page and table of contents.
    • Cover letters are optional and do not influence our reading.
    • At this time we do not accept translations or self-published books. Collaborations are okay, but only one prize is given, to be split between co-authors.
    • Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please notify us immediately if the manuscript finds another home.
    • Please do not include artwork in your manuscript, this includes photography.
    • You may submit multiple manuscripts but each submission requires the entry fee.
    • Your work will be disqualified if your name or contact info appears on the manuscript.
    • Submitters will be notified by email only. We are unable to offer editorial feedback to submitters.
    • The entry fee is $25, however, if this is prohibitive to you, please email us at editor@floatingbridgepress.org and we will make sure you are able to submit.
    • File formats we accept are: text files (.txt), Microsoft Word files (.doc or .docx), and Adobe PDF files (.pdf). Name your file with the first few words of your manuscript’s title.

Thank you for trusting us with your work, we look forward to reading it!

-The Editors

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