Enter our second chapbook contest!

Click here a preview of Jennifer Chapis's The Beekeeper's Departure, winner of the first annual Backwards City Chapbook Contest, which debuted at AWP! Find out how to get it here, or order it from Amazon!

The Backwards City Chapbook Series

Each chapbook we publish is printed, formatted, and bound depending on the design and needs of the poems and book as a whole. We print a limited edition of each book with hand-printed artisan covers, along with a larger run in our standard format: 8.5" x 5.5", saddle-stitch bound, 26-60 laserset pages, with digital-output covers. All chapbooks have ISBN numbers and are sent for consideration to the Library of Congress.

Chapbooks are published and sold as limited series and, when out of print and out of stock, placed online as free PDF's. Designed in collaboration with the writers, new books added whenever funding (and quality manuscripts) are available. Manuscripts selected for this series are on a solicitation basis only; however, all contest entries are considered for the series.

Check back soon for details on the inaugural volumes in the Backwards City Chapbook Series!