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Blue Light Press [1]

Basic Information
Address: 
P.O. Box 150300
Zip / Postal Code: 
94915
Submission Guidelines: 
http://bluelightpress.com/contests.php [2]
City: 
San Rafael
Website: 
http://bluelightpress.com/index.php [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
California
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Chief Editor
Contact First Name: 
Diane
Frank
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Periods: 
Monday, September 1, 2025 to Sunday, February 1, 2026
Saturday, February 1, 2025 to Monday, June 30, 2025
Response Time: 
Less than 3 months
Book Types: 
Chapbook
Poetry collections
Formats: 
Paperback
Charges Reading Fee: 
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Distributors: 
Ingram, Barnes & Noble, Amazon
Tips From the Editor: 

Send us your best work! A book is ready for publication when you're proud of every page. We love to see the transformation of experience into art, and we especially enjoy poems that take the leap to a larger place. The best poems speak to body, mind, heart and soul. Be sure to include a SASE, as we like to make personal comments. Our anthology, River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the Twenty-First Century, showcases more than a hundred poets we deeply admire. This book was a #1 bestseller.

Titles per Year: 
6 to 10
Editorial Focus: 

Blue Light Press publishes poetry that is imagistic, inventive, emotionally honest, and pushes the language to a deeper level of insight. The editors are all poets, and the press’ books are artistically designed. As a cooperative press, we rely on the poets they publish to actively promote their books, send out review copies, and set up readings at bookstores, universities, and reading series.

Representative Authors: 

Grace Cavalieri, Prartho Sereno, Tom Hazuka, Emilie Lygren, Mary Kay Rummel, Robert Scotellaro, Meg Pokrass, KB Ballentine, Francine Witte, Robin Lim, Beau Beausoleil, Joyce Futa, Stewart Florsheim.

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
4 - 6
Publishing type: 
print only [4]
Subgenres: 
Flash Fiction [5]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/small_presses/blue_light_press

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/blue_light_press [2] http://bluelightpress.com/contests.php [3] http://bluelightpress.com/index.php [4] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/print_only [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/flash_fiction