Leaf Press
From Ursula Vaira of Leaf Press:
Welcome to Overleaf, a chapbook manuscript competition which awards contracts to one Canadian and one international poet each year.
Winners will receive 50 copies of their copies of their chapbook as well as publicity and $100.00 to put towards refreshments for a launch party in their home town.
Everyone who enters will receive a poetry book of their choice from the Leaf Press catalogue
(by return post, shipping paid). Click here for a link to the catalogue.
Chapbooks are designed with the fine attention to papers, colours and typography which has made Leaf’s reputation over fourteen years. These two will be assembled and hand-stitched in the sunny/rainy studio looking out to the cedar forest.
Blind judging in effect.
The fee of $25.00 per entry supports Leaf’s publishing program. By participating you contribute to Canada’s small independent publishing community. If you wish to contribute more, simply increase the quantity in the PayPal window.
About Splabman
Poet & interviewer Paul E Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993, SPLAB has produced hundreds of poetry events & 600 hours of interview programming with legendary poets & whole systems activists including Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Diane di Prima, Daphne Marlatt, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Barry McKinnon, José Kozer, Brenda Hillman & many others. Paul’s books include American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012) (2018) American Sentences (2015) A Time Before Slaughter (2009) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (2013). Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia (2015), 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards (2017) and Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill (2019) Make it True meets Medusario (2019), he’s presented poetry/poetics in London, Brussels, Nanaimo, Qinghai & Beijing, China, has had work translated into Spanish, Chinese & Portuguese & writes an American Sentence every day. Awarded a residency at The Lake, from the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA, he’s published work in Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2014 Robin Blaser Award from The Capilano Review, he is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia and lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion’s Cedar River watershed.
