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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
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 Chapbooks
The Midwest Chapbook Series is a competition open to anyone who is living in, from, or closely associated with the Midwest.

We are pleased to announce that this year’s judge, Ray Gonzalez, has chosen Rumit Pancholi’s, Anatomy of a Ghost, to be published in the spring of 2008.

Runners-up were Erin M. Bertram’s, Bestiary with a Broken Window & a Thin Though Not Unkind Smattering of Light, and John Cross’s, Staring at the Animal

Finalists include work from: G.C. Waldrep, Erin Malone, Jeffrey Bean, Noah Eli Gordon, Alison Palmer, Greg Wrenn, Allison Joseph, Chad Parmenter, Jen Town, and Aby Kaupang

All entrants to the contest will receive a one-year subscription to The Laurel Review, starting with our Summer 2007 issue. Thank you to all who entered, and we hope you enjoy your subscription to the journal. A press is only as good as the quality of its submissions.

The winner of 2006's contest, judged by Reginald Shepherd, was Molly Brodak with Instructions for a Painting, currently at the printer. Other recent chapbooks include:

Reginald Shepherd, Itinerary

Amy Newman, BirdGirl Handbook

Rebecca Hoogs, Grenade

Wayne Miller, What Night Says to the Empty Boat.

Click on the graphic left or here for more concerning present and past selections.


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