1. Both published and
unpublished poets who live in or have a substantial connection with
Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, or North and South Carolina, are invited to submit
poetry for consideration.
2.
Poets may submit up to five entries with the accompanying fee for
each submission. All submissions must be original, unpublished
and not
under consideration by another publisher. All submissions should convey
some aspect of the theme.
3.
Although poems of 32 lines or less are preferred,
longer poems receive full consideration. There are no restrictions on
genre or form. All poems must be titled.
4.
To confirm receipt of submissions, please include a self-addressed,
stamped postcard listing the titles of the submissions and the line:
"Poems and fees received."
5. To ensure efficiency, please send submissions and bios both
electronically (email) and in a hard copy. The hard copy will tell me
how you want the poem to appear in the book. Please do not “format” the
electronic copy even if it looks perfectly awful. (explanation below)
a) by email - either in the email body or as a Word (2003)
or WordPerfect document attachment. Please put Poetry Submission in the
subject line of the email. Do not format this entry, i.e. keep all lines
flush left, no centering, no tabs, no indents, etc. Send to padler@cstone.net
AND
b)
Submit one copy of each
poem on a separate sheet of paper, in the form you would like it to
appear—with your name, complete address with ZIP code, phone number
and email address in the upper right-hand corner. A check for the
registration fee(s) should accompany the hard copy submissions. Email
submissions will be considered only when the hard copy and fee is in
hand. Authors will be notified when hard copies have been received.
Please include a brief
(100-150 word) biography.
Longer biographies will be edited.
6.
Contracts will be issued to poets whose poems are selected for
inclusion in the volume. Publisher copyrights published works and
retains all rights for one year after publication; then all rights
revert to the poet.
7. Payment: Poets receive one copy of the publication and
share in an aggregate royalty of 10 percent of retail book sales,
computed one year after publication. Since royalties have been
historically miniscule, Live Wire Press gives a donation of the
aggregate royalty to the Library of Virginia. A personal receipt for
royalty earned is available upon request.
Poets receive a pre-publication discount of 25% and a reduced
post-publication discount of 12.5% towards purchase of additional
copies.
8. Submissions
will not be returned; poets should keep copies of all poetry submitted.
9. There is a $5 registration fee for each
poem submitted.
10. Mail your
submission packet with fees (check or money order - please do not send
cash), postmarked on or before May 31, 2012.
*
Any poet who has ever been published in The Poet's Domain is
eligible to enter regardless of current place of residence.
*Any person who is a member of The Poetry Society of Virginia
regardless of place of residence, is eligible to enter. Contact :
PoetryinVa@aol.com
Send all
submissions to:
Publisher
Live Wire Press
103 Birdwood Court
Charlottesville, VA 22903
2/5/2012