The 2013 Pavement Saw Chapbook Award Winner is Matthew Cooperman from Fort Collins, Colorado. His collection Little Spool will be published in a run of 400 copies plus overage in early 2015 and he will receive 40 copies and $500.
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Saturday, December 6, 2014
The 2013 Pavement Saw Chapbook Award Winner
The 2013 Pavement Saw Chapbook Award Winner is Matthew Cooperman from Fort Collins, Colorado. His collection Little Spool will be published in a run of 400 copies plus overage in early 2015 and he will receive 40 copies and $500.
Monday, December 30, 2013
For the Pavement Saw 2012-13 Chapbook Award
(whose end date was 12/31/12)
The winner is Alex Johns for Robot Cosmetics
(his first collection ever!)
Alex Johns is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Georgia. He was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and currently resides with his wife and son in the Athens, Georgia area. He has both an MA in English and a PhD in Language and Literacy from the University of Georgia, and his poems have appeared in Stray Dog Almanac, Chaffin Journal, The Oklahoma Review, Red River Review, Kota Press, and Scrivener’s Pen.
This collection will be published in a run of 400 copies plus overage in early 2014.
In geographic order, our finalists
Jason Gordon from Catonsville, MD
Sharon Dolin from NYC
Jared Harel from Astoria, NY
Linda Strever from Olympia,WA
Charles Atkinson from Soquel, CA
Books were sent to all participants back in March. Thanks to all who entered!
(whose end date was 12/31/12)
The winner is Alex Johns for Robot Cosmetics
(his first collection ever!)
Alex Johns is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Georgia. He was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and currently resides with his wife and son in the Athens, Georgia area. He has both an MA in English and a PhD in Language and Literacy from the University of Georgia, and his poems have appeared in Stray Dog Almanac, Chaffin Journal, The Oklahoma Review, Red River Review, Kota Press, and Scrivener’s Pen.
This collection will be published in a run of 400 copies plus overage in early 2014.
In geographic order, our finalists
Jason Gordon from Catonsville, MD
Sharon Dolin from NYC
Jared Harel from Astoria, NY
Linda Strever from Olympia,WA
Charles Atkinson from Soquel, CA
Books were sent to all participants back in March. Thanks to all who entered!
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Chapbook Deadline Saturday 12/31/11
Pavement Saw Chapbook Contest: Postmark Deadline 12/31 (or midnight PCT for electronic submissions)
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Submit electronically, save the hassle of printing out a manuscript and have your funds support poetry not the post office! Directly enter by using our website http://www.pavementsaw.org/pages/chapcontest.htm
$500 and 50 copies of the winning chapbook will be awarded to the winner. In addition to the prize winner, at least one other manuscript will be published under a standard royalty contract (author paid 10% of press run). Everyone is allowed to submit regardless of previous publication history. Every entrant will receive the equivalent cost of the entry fee in Pavement Saw Press titles.
Unlike many publishers whose collections are printed one copy at a time and therefore lack a large circulation, our chapbooks are published in a first edition of 400 copies plus overage. While chapbooks rarely receive exposure, ours have been reviewed in Poets and Writers, Publishers Weekly, The Georgia Review, Small Press Review and many others. Our previous winners have had subsequent full length books appear from a bevy of publishers including Ahsahta Press, Curbstone Press, Cleveland State University Press, Birds llc, Bear Star Press, BlazeVOX, Shearsman Books, Futurepoem Books, University of Georgia, Tupelo Press, Hanging Loose Press and so on.
Submit up to 32 pages of poetry. Include a signed cover letter with your name, address, phone number, e-mail, publication credits, a brief biography and the title of the chapbook. Include a cover page with your contact information and the chapbook title. Include a second page with the chapbook title only. Do not include your name on any pages inside the manuscript except for the first title page. No need for a contents page. All chapbooks are selected blindly / anonymously. Manuscripts will be considered until December 31st, 2011. Entry fee: $15 for US entries, $18 overseas, $21 electronic (world wide).
If you wish to submit electronically, send $21.00 via paypal to info(AT)pavementsaw.org. Then e-mail the manuscript as an attachment to the same address and we will send you an e-mail confirmation that your entry is all set. Electronic submissions need to be sent as PDF files or as word (.doc or .docx) files. Other formats are not accepted. The extra cost is to cover the paypal fees as well as the time, labor, ink, and so on, to print out your manuscript. Or use our website http://www.pavementsaw.org/pages/chapcontest.htm
If you wish to send via regular mail, have your envelope postmarked by December 31st and accompany your manuscript with a check in the amount of $15.00 payable to Pavement Saw Press. All contributors to the contest will receive books, chapbooks and journals equal to, or more than, the entry fee. Add $3 (US) for other countries to cover the extra postal charge. Do not include an SASE for notification of results. Do not send the only copy of your work. All manuscripts are recycled and individual comments on the manuscripts cannot be made. This year the editor will be the judge and, as it should be, he promises not to chose former students, former or potential sexual partners, press interns, or people that can make him famous. A decision will be reached in March. Entries should be sent to our address at the bottom of the page.
Previous Winners
Anne Bauer, Fine Absence
j/j hastain, extant shamanisms
Martin Arnold, A Million Distant Glittering Catastrophes
Brian Teare, >
Noah Eli Gordon, Acoustic Experience
Susan Terris, Marriage License
Dan Boehl, Work
Joshua Corey, Compostition Marble
Knute Skinner, The Other Shoe
Lisa Samuels, War Holdings
F. J. Bergmann, Sauce Robert
John Bradley, Add Musk Here
Amy King, The People Instruments
Will Nixon, The Fish are Laughing
Shelley Stenhouse, Pants
David Brooks, Right Livelihood
Douglas Goetsch, Wherever You Want
Joshua Mc Kinney, Permutations of the Gallery
Pavement Saw Press
Chapbook Contest
321 Empire Street
Montpelier, OH 43543
http://www.pavementsaw.org/pages/chapcontest.htm
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Submit electronically, save the hassle of printing out a manuscript and have your funds support poetry not the post office! Directly enter by using our website http://www.pavementsaw.org/pages/chapcontest.htm
$500 and 50 copies of the winning chapbook will be awarded to the winner. In addition to the prize winner, at least one other manuscript will be published under a standard royalty contract (author paid 10% of press run). Everyone is allowed to submit regardless of previous publication history. Every entrant will receive the equivalent cost of the entry fee in Pavement Saw Press titles.
Unlike many publishers whose collections are printed one copy at a time and therefore lack a large circulation, our chapbooks are published in a first edition of 400 copies plus overage. While chapbooks rarely receive exposure, ours have been reviewed in Poets and Writers, Publishers Weekly, The Georgia Review, Small Press Review and many others. Our previous winners have had subsequent full length books appear from a bevy of publishers including Ahsahta Press, Curbstone Press, Cleveland State University Press, Birds llc, Bear Star Press, BlazeVOX, Shearsman Books, Futurepoem Books, University of Georgia, Tupelo Press, Hanging Loose Press and so on.
Submit up to 32 pages of poetry. Include a signed cover letter with your name, address, phone number, e-mail, publication credits, a brief biography and the title of the chapbook. Include a cover page with your contact information and the chapbook title. Include a second page with the chapbook title only. Do not include your name on any pages inside the manuscript except for the first title page. No need for a contents page. All chapbooks are selected blindly / anonymously. Manuscripts will be considered until December 31st, 2011. Entry fee: $15 for US entries, $18 overseas, $21 electronic (world wide).
If you wish to submit electronically, send $21.00 via paypal to info(AT)pavementsaw.org. Then e-mail the manuscript as an attachment to the same address and we will send you an e-mail confirmation that your entry is all set. Electronic submissions need to be sent as PDF files or as word (.doc or .docx) files. Other formats are not accepted. The extra cost is to cover the paypal fees as well as the time, labor, ink, and so on, to print out your manuscript. Or use our website http://www.pavementsaw.org/pages/chapcontest.htm
If you wish to send via regular mail, have your envelope postmarked by December 31st and accompany your manuscript with a check in the amount of $15.00 payable to Pavement Saw Press. All contributors to the contest will receive books, chapbooks and journals equal to, or more than, the entry fee. Add $3 (US) for other countries to cover the extra postal charge. Do not include an SASE for notification of results. Do not send the only copy of your work. All manuscripts are recycled and individual comments on the manuscripts cannot be made. This year the editor will be the judge and, as it should be, he promises not to chose former students, former or potential sexual partners, press interns, or people that can make him famous. A decision will be reached in March. Entries should be sent to our address at the bottom of the page.
Previous Winners
Anne Bauer, Fine Absence
j/j hastain, extant shamanisms
Martin Arnold, A Million Distant Glittering Catastrophes
Brian Teare, >
Noah Eli Gordon, Acoustic Experience
Susan Terris, Marriage License
Dan Boehl, Work
Joshua Corey, Compostition Marble
Knute Skinner, The Other Shoe
Lisa Samuels, War Holdings
F. J. Bergmann, Sauce Robert
John Bradley, Add Musk Here
Amy King, The People Instruments
Will Nixon, The Fish are Laughing
Shelley Stenhouse, Pants
David Brooks, Right Livelihood
Douglas Goetsch, Wherever You Want
Joshua Mc Kinney, Permutations of the Gallery
Pavement Saw Press
Chapbook Contest
321 Empire Street
Montpelier, OH 43543
http://www.pavementsaw.org/pages/chapcontest.htm
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Pavement Saw 2010-11 Chapbook decision
Here is the info on the Pavement Saw 2010-11 Chapbook Award
This year was a split decision, the winners are
Anne Bauer from Helena, MT for Fine Absence
(her first collection ever!)
and
j/j hastain from Lafayette, CO, for extant shamanisms
these collections will both be published in a run of 400 copies plus overage later in 2011.
In order, the three finalists are
1. Matt Schumacher from Rhododendron, OR
2. Chris D'Errico from Las Vegas, NV
3. Alexander Dickow from France
Books were sent to all participants back in February. Thanks to all who entered!
This year was a split decision, the winners are
Anne Bauer from Helena, MT for Fine Absence
(her first collection ever!)
and
j/j hastain from Lafayette, CO, for extant shamanisms
these collections will both be published in a run of 400 copies plus overage later in 2011.
In order, the three finalists are
1. Matt Schumacher from Rhododendron, OR
2. Chris D'Errico from Las Vegas, NV
3. Alexander Dickow from France
Books were sent to all participants back in February. Thanks to all who entered!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Pavement Saw 2008-09 Chapbook decision
The info on this years chapbook contest and finalists--
The four finalists (in no particular order were):
Martin Arnold from Greensboro, NC
Andrew Zawacki from Athens, GA
Farid Matuk from Dallas Texas
Adrianne Kalfopoulou from Athens Greece
Second Place was Elizabeth Robinson whose chapbook will be published by Pavement Saw Press.
Elizabeth Robinson has been the recipient of grants from the Fund for Poetry and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her book Pure Descent won the National Poetry Series in 2002, and Apprehend won the Fence Modern Poets Prize in 2003. Her most recent collection of poems is The Orphan & its Relations. Robinson co-edits EtherDome Chapbooks with Colleen Lookingbill and Instance Press with Beth Anderson and Laura Sims. She lives in Boulder, Colorado and teaches at Naropa University.
The winner of the Pavement Saw Chapbook Contest for 2008-09 was Brian Teare. In addition to winning $500, he will be given 50 copies of the collection. His chapbook will be published by Pavement Saw Press in a run of 435 copies by the end of 2009.
Brian Teare is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell Colony. He has published poetry and criticism in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter, Seneca Review, Verse and VOLT, as well as in the anthologies Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and At the Barriers: The Poetry of Thom Gunn. His first book, The Room Where I Was Born, won the 2003 Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His second book, Sight Map, is out from University of California Press; his third, Pleasure, will be published in 2010 by Ahsahta Press. He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches and makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.
The four finalists (in no particular order were):
Martin Arnold from Greensboro, NC
Andrew Zawacki from Athens, GA
Farid Matuk from Dallas Texas
Adrianne Kalfopoulou from Athens Greece
Second Place was Elizabeth Robinson whose chapbook will be published by Pavement Saw Press.
Elizabeth Robinson has been the recipient of grants from the Fund for Poetry and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her book Pure Descent won the National Poetry Series in 2002, and Apprehend won the Fence Modern Poets Prize in 2003. Her most recent collection of poems is The Orphan & its Relations. Robinson co-edits EtherDome Chapbooks with Colleen Lookingbill and Instance Press with Beth Anderson and Laura Sims. She lives in Boulder, Colorado and teaches at Naropa University.
The winner of the Pavement Saw Chapbook Contest for 2008-09 was Brian Teare. In addition to winning $500, he will be given 50 copies of the collection. His chapbook will be published by Pavement Saw Press in a run of 435 copies by the end of 2009.
Brian Teare is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell Colony. He has published poetry and criticism in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter, Seneca Review, Verse and VOLT, as well as in the anthologies Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and At the Barriers: The Poetry of Thom Gunn. His first book, The Room Where I Was Born, won the 2003 Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His second book, Sight Map, is out from University of California Press; his third, Pleasure, will be published in 2010 by Ahsahta Press. He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches and makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Pavement Saw 2007-08 Chapbook decision
For all of you who sent to the Pavement Saw Chapbook contest, thanks for entering; just pulling together a manuscript and sending it out makes you a winner in my experience. Books were sent in early May and the winner will be published in June. Here are the results, congratulate any of them you know--
The semi-finalists are
Joel Lewis from Hoboken, NJ
Christopher Chambers from New Orleans, LA
Adam Cornford from San Francisco, CA
Page Starzinger from New York City
The finalists are
Andrew Zawacki -- Athens, GA
Adrianne Kalfopoulou -- Athens Greece
William Ford -- Iowa City, IA
And the winner is
Noah Eli Gordon from Denver, CO for his collection Acoustic Experience. The press run will be 400 plus overage. The author receives fifty copies and a five hundred dollar prize. Acoustic Experience will be available from Pavement Saw Press in June.
Noah Eli Gordon is the author of six collections, three of which were published in 2007: Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial; selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series), Figures for a Darkroom Voice (Tarpaulin Sky Press; in collaboration with poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson and artist Noah Saterstrom) and A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow (New Issues 2007). His reviews and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including: Review of Contemporary Fiction, The Denver Quarterly, Jacket, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Talisman, and the book Burning Interiors: David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. He writes a column on chapbooks for Rain Taxi and teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver.
The semi-finalists are
Joel Lewis from Hoboken, NJ
Christopher Chambers from New Orleans, LA
Adam Cornford from San Francisco, CA
Page Starzinger from New York City
The finalists are
Andrew Zawacki -- Athens, GA
Adrianne Kalfopoulou -- Athens Greece
William Ford -- Iowa City, IA
And the winner is
Noah Eli Gordon from Denver, CO for his collection Acoustic Experience. The press run will be 400 plus overage. The author receives fifty copies and a five hundred dollar prize. Acoustic Experience will be available from Pavement Saw Press in June.
Noah Eli Gordon is the author of six collections, three of which were published in 2007: Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial; selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series), Figures for a Darkroom Voice (Tarpaulin Sky Press; in collaboration with poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson and artist Noah Saterstrom) and A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow (New Issues 2007). His reviews and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including: Review of Contemporary Fiction, The Denver Quarterly, Jacket, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Talisman, and the book Burning Interiors: David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. He writes a column on chapbooks for Rain Taxi and teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver.
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