Slash Pine Press is pleased to announce our first call for chapbook-length manuscripts of poetry or mixed-genre. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our mission and submission procedures. If our aesthetic and philosophical ambitions line up with yours, please send us the best work you’ve got.

Submission Procedures:

* DEADLINE: Postmark June 30, 2009.
* Manuscripts should be no longer than 24 pp and be either poetry or mixed-genre. We are not soliciting fiction at this time.
* No more than one poem or mixed-genre piece per page, please.
* No electronic submissions; multiple submissions OK.
* Include two title pages; one with title only; one with title, author’s name, and full contact information.
* All manuscripts receive a blind reading.
* Do not send SASE. Manuscripts will be recycled and results announced on Slash Pine Press’s website.
* Faculty, students, and graduates of the University of Alabama are not eligible for publication.
* Decisions will be announced in September (sooner if possible).

Please send manuscripts to:

Editors
Slash Pine Press
Department of English
University of Alabama
PO Box 870244
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244