Last Call: The LemonLight Prize · One Week Remaining
$3,000 prize fund. Judged by Leila Chatti.
We extended the deadline by one day. The LemonLight Prize now closes this Sunday, June 1.
If you’ve been sitting on a poem — holding it, turning it, not quite ready — this is the week. Send it.
The prize: $3,000 total ($2,000 to the winner, four honorable mentions at $250 each). Judged by Leila Chatti. Open to all poets writing in English, anywhere in the world.
Entry: $15 per poem. Or enter for $30 and receive a copy of the LemonLight Prize Anthology — a limited-edition volume gathering the winner, honorable mentions, and a curated selection of finalists: over forty poets in print. The anthology is produced to the same standard as our full publishing list. Copies are very limited.
Submit at inkandribbon.org.
A few other things worth knowing this week.
Sesquipedalian Rain Chant is officially here.
Brooks Lampe’s debut — the first book from Ink & Ribbon Press — publishes on June 14th. You can order it now at https://inkandribbon.org/store/p/sesquipedalian-rain-chant, or find it exclusively in person at Eagle Harbor Book Company on Bainbridge Island. Dense, percussive, formally assured: a book that earns every word. As Billy Collins put it when he came across our work: “You do nice books.” We think so too.
Ink & Ribbon Press is now part of Bainbridge Gives.
We’re glad to share that we’ve been accepted into the Bainbridge Community Foundation’s Bainbridge Gives campaign. If you’ve been looking for a way to support the press — and the poets we publish — this is a good moment. Every gift goes directly toward our publishing program, our prizes, and keeping serious poetry in print.
Donate at bainbridgegives.org
Open Reading Period: Full Manuscripts · Opens June 15th.
Our next open reading period for full poetry manuscripts opens on June 15th. If you have a collection that couldn’t be shuffled — a book that required its particular form — we want to read it. More details on the submission guidelines are on our website.
One week. Send the poem.
— Ink & Ribbon Press Poetry · Crafted · Collected
