4th & Verse Inaugural Chapbook Competition




Submission Dates: April 1st – June 1st, 2012 by online submission manager
(preferred) or regular mail ( Postmark deadline June 1st )

Awarding publication of a poetry chapbook, in print and e-book format; 75%
royalties (after cost), and 50 author copies, to a writer who has not yet
published a book of poetry.

THE DEAL: Fourth and Verse is a pro-poet, not-for-profit publishing venture. We
can’t offer an ‘advance’ or an honorarium, but our authors earn a
radically high cut of the royalties from the chapbooks they sell. We’ll be
promoting and marketing our chapbooks online and in bookstores, and so will our
authors. There’s a $10 submission fee, and we provide a one paragraph
response, detailing the strengths and weaknesses of the chapbook manuscript as
we see it, for every single submission, even (all) the ones we can’t select to
publish. With a $15 submission fee we’ll provide feedback and a copy of the
winning chapbook.

Established in 2012 by four students in the poetry MFA program at Cornell
University, 4th & Verse Books is a publishing collaborative that prioritizes the
creative process. By working closely with our authors we seek to create and
champion poetry books of the highest quality. We believe that innovation is the
tradition in poetry. As an outlet for poets at the beginning of their careers,
we encourage artistic exploration and support clarity and confidence in new
voices.



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