| CALLS FOR POEMS and more!--
anthologies, chapbooks, broadsides, and
Pudding Magazine!
for the future
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 Writing anything rather colorful?
something angular something truck stop something
old umbrella loose or mama's ring tight something caught
in your throat can't sing it yet can't can't can't can't walk it off it starts out cloudy then goes stainless steel big as rain disappears in a smooth roll across the next town over something river something anxious something steeped like sun tea or neglected something like the phone going off or black eyed peas let's get it started in here right there i'm pointin' to your head now something you got away with something glass-fragile international or you need a leafbag for ready to dump this jupiter on us this hope maybe useless maybe save small farms radical something blue as lucinda williams something gallery or should be posted in the alley behind Miss Lilly's Tattoos something breathes the second it's born something takes off dancin it's totally inflated gonna bounce when you smack it down something gonna gonna save righteous followers don't train that thought just crank it crank it something crackin' right now in your head, there, snatch it. There's the screen now click Word, lay it down now save
print fold lick send. --Jennifer Bosveld
Always seeking the
rather rambunctious writing
of the day
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For Upcoming Anthologies:
RIDE
Poems about bikes and bicycling; bike shops, racing, touring and you name it. Editors Jennifer Bosveld and Fred Kirchner. Include email & SASE. Send now. This won't happen soon.
REEDS and RUSHES
Poems about reeds; i.e., reed instruments, reed musicians, composers, teachers, but also reed myths, history, thatch, paper, more. Standard submission practices. For this anthology ONLY, send to: Kathleen Burgess, Reeds Editor, 194 Clinton Road, Chillicothe OH 45601, not to Pudding House. Include email & SASE. Send now. Closed and in design.
AND THE COLOR OF IT IS: Ohio Childhoods in Poetry
Poems, short short stories, short personal essays and creative nonfiction, by poets & writers who spent their childhoods in Ohio. A small anthology is planned. Poems of place, character poems, poems that name streets and shops and events in Ohio, for example. Standard submission practices. Include all contact info including email and SASE. See Jen's Smart-Ass Guidelines. Send now, no deadline. When we're done, we're done. Won't be much notice.
CRUDE: Poems at the End of the Age of Oil
Small anthology on travel, road trips, memoir, pro or con on consumption, gas/oil, political, environmental, let's see what we get! Jennifer Bosveld, editor.
FARMING ANTHOLOGY (name to be announced).
Edited by Jennifer Bosveld, Doug Swisher, Robert Pringle, and Sandy Feen-Diehl. Won't appear soon. Poems about farming then and now. The glories and the struggles. This anthology is going to have some graphics. Send!
POETS GREATEST HITS
Invitational only. Please don't even ask if you can be included! Like recording artists, poets have their greatest hits, why not flaunt them? Poets must be nominated by one of the 6 selection panel members. Current panel members: David Chorlton, David Rigsbee, Vivian Shipley, Roger Weingarten, Jennifer MacPhearson, and Jennifer Bosveld representing Pudding House.
This project requires the top 12 greatest hits of the poet for a gold album, that is, chapbook, with a gold cover. The greatest hits of the poet's entire career! We have accepted nearly 300 for publication thus far. Includes the 12 signature poems and a narrative about the poems and longer than usual biography
For Pudding Magazine:
Send artful, revised poetry on real paper w/SASE. If accepted, be prepared to send Microsoft Word file (.doc or .rtf) for Windows PC by email in the body of an email. Payment: copy of issue. See Pudding Magazine webpage.
Virtual Journalism Poems
in the manner of Jennifer Bosveld, Ron Moran, Kate Murphy, some by Nita Penfold, Al Ferber, Carol Schott Martino, Steve Abbott, many others. Ron Moran's chapbook, GETTING THE BODY TO DANCE AGAIN (Pudding House, $8.95) is a great example of this poetry subgenre. The term, virtual journalism, was coined by Jennifer Bosveld and is illustrated in her demonstration book, JAZZ KILLS THE PAPERBOY, which includes criteria. $14. For complete details and criteria on VJ poetry, see our webpage on the subject. The JAZZ... manuscript resulted in Jen's Individual Artist Fellowship from The Ohio Arts Council. JAZZ has been used in several university creative writing programs and by writing groups around the country. Try it; it's fun! The process is insightful. VJ guidelines are published in the back of the book.
General Magazine Submissions
Send poems on popular culture, sociological observations, human service, social justice, virtual journalism--poems that achieve artistic levels first and foremost. We're also widely open regarding style and themes.
Chapbooks Series
Chapbooks through General Submissions
We consider chapbook manuscripts all year. 10 to 32 pages. Previously published individual pieces fine if you own copyright or include publisher's permission to reprint. Requires a $12 reading fee, About the Author statement including literary bio, acknowledgments page including previous publication credit for specific poems. Include table of contents and proposed cover art in black & white line drawing but this is not necessary. Covers are usually left to the publisher. We are open to receiving chapbook manuscripts anytime but they are accepted via email attachment only. You may phone in your VISA/MC w/exp date to pay the reading fee or send check 3 days before you want to email.
If accepted, your payment is: Publication + 20 copies, many benefits including ISBN, listing in Bowker's Books In Print, inclusion in several libraries and permanent collections.
Chapbooks through the new Pudding House Annual Chapbook Competition
$1000 prize. Deadline September 30 annually. Prize determinations could change each year. Reading fee: $15. Send 10 - 32 page chapbook manuscript, specific acknowledgments, statement that you own copyright or have permission to reprint, bio, SASE, and all contact information, especially email. Pudding House has gone from publishing 1 chapbook a year to over 150 but competition is very tough. We publish not even a trace percent of what we receive. See our Publications List for the long list of titles and poets we've supported over the years. See the mainpage for the newest titles.
Chapbook winners include
Under a Blameless Moon
by Anne McCrady
No Away
by John Repp
Places You Can't Reach
by David Chorlton
Nesting Dolls
by Maggie Smith
The High Cost of Living
by Mary Crow
Thread that Sings in My Hands
by Jeanne Lohmann
Broadsides/Posters
The Pudding House Broadsides Series
Artistic bias, frequency:
We plan to produce at least one truly limited edition signed and numbered broadside or poster a year. Our intention is to produce highly compelling posters of language-art that motivate, change, empower, inform, or entertain the viewer. We're looking for inspired works of art and message. Please give this thought, we are extremely eager to publish as many posters and broadsides as we find compelling.
Submit camera-ready language-art on regular bright white paper in high quality image that will enlarge and maintain crisp image. We're using these words poster and broadside interchangeably even though there are differences historically and in some minds. We're open to both and we're open to multiple authors and collages submitted up to 17x22 camera-ready. Send via U.S. Mail, tubed. Black & white only. May contain some visual art if it is line-drawing. High contrast black and white, no grays. Include $8 processing fee payable to Pudding House; for consideration and return of intellectual material.
Intended result for selected piece:
Generally publication of 100 copies which the author/artist will sign and number at one sitting. Author to receive 30 as payment. Ten at each price level. Total payment value in copies: $500 minimum. Minimum retail price structure for true poster-sized products: Numbers 01-20 $10ea; 21-50 $20ea; 51-80 $30ea; 81-90 $40ea; 91-100 $75ea. Price may vary depending on artist/poet and the piece. Copyright in author's name, tightly controlled. The poster and the author's one original must be and remain the only copies in existence for over 10 years afterwhich both author and publisher have permission to reprint in form obviously different from the original; must acknowledge original edition.
We are taking this effort very seriously and expect these broadsides to become highly valued in the future. Early indications are that this will be the case. ALL POSTER PRICES ARE FOR UNFRAMED. POSTERS ARE SHIPPED TUBED. Add $3 more for insurance.
Pudding House Walls Project
81 Shadymere Lane
Columbus Ohio 43213
(614) 986-1881
Sample Pudding House Broadsides
See Publications List for entire selection.
Write. Pudding House Broadsides Series #01, 1997 launched the series.
To begin this series we produced Write, currently on display at Pudding House; Mac's Backs Bookstore in Cleveland; Brown University Library, Columbus State Community College, office of Steve Abbott; and over 190 are privately owned after very few showings. As of 7/06, Write is $250, free shipping/handling.
Dance was released by Jennifer Bosveld in December 1998. The opening price for the signed & numbered limited edition poster was $20 for the first 25. The price is now $150 and will be going up with a history similar to Write.
#003 Poster by Mari Artzner Wolfe, titled The Bayeux Tapestry, History in Stitches, currently on display at Pudding House; released February 2000, $20, will go up in price, free shipping/handling.
#004 Poster by David Chorlton, titled Writers' Block is 11X17, $15 currently, shipped tubed, $4 handling fee.
#005 Poster by Jennifer Bosveld, titled Less is in honor of John Lennon and is a language block like "Write" and "Dance". $30 currently.
There are other posters, prints, and broadsides. See that webpage.
All submissions should be addressed to the project title, Pudding House Publications, 81 Shadymere Lane, Columbus Ohio 43213 and include SASE. We do not respond to postcards or simultaneous submissions.
Please assure that your SASE has ample postage attached to cover the number of sheets submitted plus our response.
We're not computer snobs.
We don't call realMail snailMail.
All submissions except where indicated to the contrary
must come through realMail, you know, with stamps.
And we like to see an occasional hand-scrawled signature!
Check back--we've got some exciting projects coming up!
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