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GreenTower Press is a small university press publishing a chapbook series and the internationally recognized literary magazine, The Laurel Review. The press operates through funds provided by Northwest Missouri State University, the Missouri Arts Council, and sales of the chapbooks and The Laurel Review. The press has been in operation at NMSU since 1985. 
The Laurel Review publishes poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction, and book reviews twice yearly--winter and summer. Click here to explore what The Laurel Review has to offer! 
The Midwest Chapbook Series is a competition open to anyone who is living in, from, or closely associated with the Midwest. 2009 Guidelines: - 20-30 pages (typed, single-sided, one poem per page). - Individual poems may have been previously published. You may include an acknowledgements page if you wish, though one is not required. - Include two cover pages: one with title only, the other with name, address, email address, manuscript title, and a short note establishing your connection to the Midwest. - Your name should ONLY appear on the cover page, which the staff will keep on file. Manuscripts will be read blind. - Reading period opens February 1 and ends June 1, 2009. Late entries will be returned unread. - $10.00 reading fee. Please make checks payable to GreenTower Press. Reading fee gets you a one-year subscription to The Laurel Review, starting with the summer issue. - Final judge for 2009 will be Martha Collins. - The winning chapbook will be published in an edition of 300 copies. Winner will receive one hundred copies. Additional copies offered at 40% off the list price ($7.00) plus shipping and handling. - Winner also will be invited to give a reading at Northwest Missouri State University’s Visiting Writers series, which includes travel expenses paid and an honorarium of $250.00 - All entries will be considered for publication in The Laurel Review. - Winner will be notified by email or telephone, and will be announced on our website (http://catpages.nwmissouri.edu/m/tlr/) in August, 2009. - If you’d like an acknowledgement of receipt send a SASP; please do not send a SASE. Send entries to: GreenTower Press Midwest Chapbook Series Northwest Missouri State University Maryville, MO 64468 Questions may be addressed to the editors of The Laurel Review at: TLR@nwmissouri.edu Recent chapbooks available from GreenTower Press: Off the Fire Road, Greg Wrenn Anatomy of a Ghost, Rumit Pancholi ITINERARY, Reginald Shepherd Instructions for a Painting, Molly Brodak WORM, Charles Harper Webb The BirdGirl Handbook, Amy Newman Grenade, Rebecca Hoogs What Night Says to the Empty Boat, Wayne Miller Click on the graphic left or here for more concerning present and past selections. Thanks for stopping by. Don't forget to bookmark this page. --John Gallaher, Co-editor 
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