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Lefty Blondie Press Editors' Choice Broadside Series

 Open to self-identifying women & non-binary poets
of any age & any publishing history

 Accepting Submissions:
October 1, 2025 - January 15, 2026

The Lefty Blondie Press Letterpress Series, which includes the LBP Editors' Choice Broadside Series is a collaboration between LBP editors, poets, and our letterpress designer to make poems more visible! Lefty Blondie Press serves as the conduit between a single poem and the handset letterpress process. Our goal with this series is to promote the art of letterpress printing, and create avenues to poetry for those who may otherwise avoid encountering it.

 

Lefty Blondie Press broadsides, notecards, and bookmarks are original designs of a single poem using the hand-set letterpress process, then printed on individual sheets of exquisite paper, creating an engaging, unique, hand-numbered piece for your collection. They also make for the best kind of unique gift giving!

Details & Submission Guidelines 

The Poet of the Selected Poem will Receive:

  • 25 (twenty-five) copies of their poem in an original limited-edition handset letterpress broadside designed and printed by Ryan Kaune

  • Praise, adoration, and promotion through social media, literary festivals, independent booksellers, & any other collaborations LBP seeks out.

  • ​Finalists may be offered publication as part of LBP's Letterpress Series

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Reading Fee:

  • ​We suggest a $10 reading fee per submission

  • Pay-what-you-can reading fee via Duosuma tip jar! We want to read your work & we don't want the reading fee to keep you from submitting. Please feel free to submit and skip the reading fee. 

  • ALL submissions are read by LBP editors & readers with openness and attention, regardless of what you're able to add to our tip jar. 

  • ​All tip jar donations support LBP's mission to promote the poetry of self-identifying women and non-binary people.

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How to Submit:

 

Submission Do's:​

  • Start each new poem on a new page within the single document

  • Additional submissions of up to 3 poems per document are welcome! Please consider paying a reading fee for each individual submission, 

  • Simultaneous submissions accepted. Please notify us  immediately through the Duosuma submission manager if your poem is accepted elsewhere. ​

​​​Submission Don'ts:

  • Please, no previously published poems (this is a change this year)

  • Absolutely no submissions that are racist, homophobic, misogynist, discriminatory, or hateful.

  • No AI-generated texts nor AI-modified texts. Human-created poems only.

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​​Publishing Rights & Citation:

  • Lefty Blondie Press holds first serial rights for work that we publish, and the right to reprint that work in other formats with your permission.

  • Upon publication, all rights revert to the author. 

  • Please cite Lefty Blondie Press if your poems published with LBP are published elsewhere in the future.

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