2011 springgun poetry chapbook prize

The winner will receive a cash prize of $500 and print publication by SpringGun Press.
All entries will be judged anonymously by the editors of SpringGun.

Deadline:
• Manuscript must be postmarked by August 16, 2010.

For complete guidelines click here

now accepting submissions for Third issue

The reading period for the third issue of SpringGun is April 1, 2010 - August 1, 2010.

We accept original innovative works of poetry, flash fiction, book reviews, essays, interviews, and any form of intermedia art (video art, screen literature, electronic writing, digital poetry) during our designated reading periods. Please send us an email with a single word document attached containing your work. Simultaneous submissions are accepted (notify us ASAP in the event of publication elsewhere). All rights revert to the author(s) upon publication.

Send all submissions to: editor@springgunpress.com

about springgun Journal AND PRESs

SpringGun is a not-for-profit web-based journal and print press promoting all forms of previously unpublished quality contemporary writing and interdisciplinary digital art.

We’re interested in the internet as a medium both for its networking potential and accessibility; we want to create a platform for newer art forms to emerge and pull new intelligent voices into the literary fold. We’re interested in writers who read vigorously and are invested in the continued advancement and development of both "print" and digital writing.  We’re looking for artists who believe that it’s important to interact with a community of ideas and artists, who believe no good art happens in isolation.

A SpringGun is unexpected, sudden, immediate, urgent—it’s happening now.  It dwells within the context of cold war paranoia and the new post 9/11 era.  A SpringGun is simultaneously insane, comical, violent, practical, ingenious, irresponsible, terrifying, vulnerable, and deadly.  We’re not necessarily looking for political work, but work fueled with its own sense of urgency, play, and importance is a must.

Editors: Mark Rockswold and Erin Costello