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    BREAKING NEWS!

    Trial period was huge success--now permanent--
     --Pudding House invites
     general submission chapbook manuscripts (not competitions)
     by email only 24/7/365.
     Scroll down this page for more information!
     $15 submission fee, usually same-day response unless we're traveling.





RATTLEBOX National

Readings sponsored by or emceed by Jennifer Bosveld or other staff
at special events.





PLUM PUDDING Regional Readings Nationwide

featuring Pudding House chapbook authors
organized by the poets in the region.
They are happening all over the place.




SALON
Poetry Writing Workshops sponsored by Pudding House
led by Rose Smith (Columbus) and Sammy Greenspan (Cleveland)
Writing, critiquing, read-arounds, sharing news about poetry events,
and special projects
1st Saturdays monthly, 9:30am - 4pm
meeting at MCL Cafeteria, E. Main St., in Columbus Ohio
2nd Saturdays monthly, 9:30am - 4pm
meeting at Mac's, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Registration only $65/yr
Send to appropriate leader a passionate letter of interest, 6 of your best poems,
$10 non-refundable application fee payable to Rose Smith or Sammy Greenspan, your email
Fee will apply to registration if you're accepted.
Appropriate for a broad range of writers producing poetry
To contact Rose about Columbus Salon: conversant2@aol.com
To contact Sammy about Cleveland Salon: sammygreenspan@mindspring.com



Jen's address and phone number:
81 Shadymere Lane, Columbus, Ohio 43213
(614) 986-1881


Plagiarism Against Our Authors


Pudding House former intern, the exceptional poet, Eva Della Lana,
is a 3-time victim of Plagiarism by a New York City writer.
Adria Giattino, now a college student at Barnard in NYC, stole Eva Della Lana's
poem, "Menarche in Rural Ohio," and entered it into three NYC competitions
and won or placed in all three, receiving $5000 from Random House,
$200 from New York City College, and a prize from Scholatic.
NYCC has been wonderful, believed us immediately, and obtained a written
full confession from the plagiarist. We've yet to hear real results from
Random House, the biggest financial damages victim. Can you believe that
Random House wrote to us saying, "We're satisfied with her apology." We're
furious about this. How irresponsible to the other contestants, to the
publishing industry, to the true author and her publisher. There are many victims
in the crime: 3 competition sponsors, Stuyvesant High School and their
administrators, teachers, the crook's own mother, competition corporate sponsors,
the judge/s, but the number one victim is Eva Della Lana. It's going to be interesting
to see how this pans out. The poem is the opening poem in her chapbook that was published
by Pudding House and the opening poem in Pudding 53. Readers, surf the net and help us
report any illegal usages of Eva's great poem, "Menarche in Rural Ohio." Please.


Trial period a huge success--general submission chapbook manuscripts

considered by email only, 24/7/365
1) Send $15 reading fee by phone, VISA/MC w/exp date, or pre-sent
check in the mail then
10-32 (21-28 best) page manuscript by email attachment.

2) Microsoft Word for Windows PC doc with subject line
"c-last name, first name, title of chapbook"
with everything in one file or document, having proofed
and assured great prepwork.
Do not send .dat or docx files. Send .doc files; rtf might be ok.

3) On cover page list your name, all contact information, email,
mss title, payment by phone at (614) 986-1881. If we're traveling,
we could be gone as long as 6 wks. People staying here
do not open mail or answer phone. There is no answering machine.

4) Type only in Times New Roman 11 pt font throughout, straight type,
no pagination or "inserted" page breaks or column breaks.
Do absolutely no page set-up within the document.
No lay-outs on page; we do book lay-out, not authors.
Space bar 4 lines between poems or place them at top of next page.

5) Include in one document, in order: Cover page w/all contact info,
title page, acknowledgments showing poem title and first
appearance publication credits,
contents (not as a "table", use no page numbers and do not
number the poems), poems, About the Author statement.
DO NOT PAGINATE.
All page numbers must be removed from document text and Table of Contents.

6) Send to Pudding House via jen@puddinghouse.com.

Same-day response unless we're traveling.
We are no longer accepting chapbooks by U.S. Mail
since if accepted, we'll need it by email attachment anyway.
 
 

How Pudding Got Its Name




$500 for you
The Pudding House Poetry Chapbook Competition
DEADLINE Sept 30 annually

Reading period for the 2010 competition
is now open through September 30, 2010. No simultaneous submissions.

2009 $1,000 Winner: Susan Terris, San Francisco, California

Runner-up: Diana Woodcock, Doha, Qatar
Finalists of Note:
Derold Sligh, San Diego, California
Martha Deborah Hall, Amherst, New Hampshire
Richard M. Berlin, Richmond, Massachutes
Scott T. Starbuck, San Diego, California
Judith Terzi, Pasadena, California
John Milkereit, Houston, Texas

Additional Poets of Note:
Elizabeth Kerlikowske
Red Hawk
Christopher Stephen Soden
Gary Leising
Ann Herlong-Bodman
Karen Braucher
Amy Ash
Rajiv Mohabir
David Bruzina
Jen Bartman

*******************************

2008 Winner: Clint Frakes, Mystery Not Always Unkind
2007 Winner: Anne McCrady, Henderson, Texas, for Under a Blameless Moon
2006 Winner: John Repp, Erie, Pennsylvania
2005 Winner: David Chorlton, Phoenix, Arizona
2004 Winner: Maggie Smith, Columbus, Ohio

Facts over the years:
Most competition entries come from
MA, NY, IL, CA, NC, PA, OH, CT, AZ, VT, MD, WA, OR, WV, VA in that order . . .
and we received entries from every one of the 50 states in 2007.

No Pudding House staff or their immediate families
or winners from the previous year may enter.



TIPS:
Chapbook manuscripts scoring highest tend to
be those with "words dancing together that have never danced together before" (J Bosveld);
offer a clarity that makes them accessible at an opening level and offer layered meanings
and additional discoveries with repeated readings;
contain some aha moments;
are playful and fresh but not cute, or;
might be deadly serious with social justice or political implications
but don't beat us over the head;
have an inventive style;
might be educational as well as entertaining;
role model work replicable to some degree for poets developing their voices;
reflect the American popular culture with fresh insight and
a high level of artistic expression;
Rarely do we get much of that. We score on a scale of 1 - 10,
ten being nearly unheard of high. Highest scores tend to be 9.4 and below
Scorers averaged perhaps influence judge's score.
High scores for 1st place winners over the years have been 8.8, 10, 9, 8, 9, 8.
Manuscripts would usually require scores 8.0 or over to place in the finals,
before that 7.0 to place in the "hold file".

WHO WILL BE PUBLISHED?
Up to 25 poets out of the pool of submissions.

JUDGE:
Jennifer Bosveld, with a desire to be influenced by Pudding House team members who may
champion particular manuscripts. We want entrants to know who the judge is because the
main purpose for sponsoring the competition is to find poems that come closest to
Pudding House editorial taste.



Titles from our house poet, Mark Hartenbach

$10 each unless otherwise posted

Surfing the Infinite Pulse (chapbook)
Three Poems (chapbook)
Prayer Cards with Phone Numbers Written on Them, Love Songs and Painful Memories (chapbook)
Carp Head Replica (chapbook)
Confessions of an American Garbagehead (novella)
Land of Nod (chapbook)
Postcards from the Bunker (chapbook)
March (a 100 page book written over a month)Perfect bound, color, $15
Ten Houses (chapbook) Pudding House reprinted this acclaimed collection in 2005
Book of Resurrection (chapbook) (first Hartenbach book released.)
Mark Hartenbach: Greatest Hits (chapbook)--his signature poems
Beneath the Valley of the Blue-eyed Boys (chapbook)--Jennifer's favorite
of all the Hartenbach collections. Amazing poems on his childhood.
Black Notebook (chapbook)
Traveling 186 Billion Miles Per Second on Three Wheels (chapbook)
The Most Beautiful Man in the World (chapbook)


Mark Hartenbach is published by Nerve Cowboy, Alpha Beat, Chiron Review, The Temple,
Rio Grande Review, Louisiana Review, Kiosk, Black Moon, Wormwood Review, Thunder Sandwich,
 and elsewhere, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His chapbook,
Ten Houses (MonkeyBoy Press, Holland MI) received rave reviews from Janice Faye Fiering
in The Temple and is re-released by Pudding House. Gerald Locklin praised him as one
of the most significant voices out there. Reviewer Michael Basinski (SUNY/Buffalo) says "In all of
small press there is no more saintly roving spiritually searching mind artist than Mark Hartenbach.
Hartenbach is living soul-shivering, pondering, and roaring. Hartenbach searches the soul like a brillo
at work on some baked on zucchini. I stand in awe.




--MORE NEW PUDDING HOUSE CHAPBOOKS--
pre-publication and released titles
$10 each!

 

All new Pudding House titles are exhibited annually at the Poets House Spring Showcase in New York City.

See the current Pudding House newsletter for a list by ISBN for recent and forthcoming books and chapbooks.




PUSHCART NOMINEES from Pudding House:

2009:
Ian Brand, Jess Millner, Beverly Zeimer, Susan Terris, Roy Bentley
2007:
Roy Bentley, Wendy Drexler, John Repp, Ian Brand, Al Maginnes, Jeffrey Skinner
2006:
Eva Della Lana, Lowell Jaeger, Kathleen Burgess, John Kneisly



--GREATEST HITS
by invitation only,
Pudding House is ten years into GREATEST HITS the invitational-only national archive. These chapbook treasures may be purchased from Pudding House for $10 each. The Greatest Hits list will be updated this fall. Subscription price: $200/25 titles.


Pudding 54:
Featured Mark Hersman and includes but is not limited to, Susan Hendrickson, Lowell Jaeger, John M. Bennett, Gene Bradford, Robert Pringle, Ron Moran, Alfred J. Bruey, Connie Everett, Doug Swisher, Jack Burgess and more. Ohio regional poets take longer to appear because we are a national journal. If you have had conversation with the Editor about the probability of becoming a Featured Poet and it hasn't happened yet, you might reconnect in order to explore where we are with that. What is your understanding?




 

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