Welcome to Bainbridge Island Press!
We are a traditional independent publisher of poetry. While we especially love to showcase the incredible talent of Bainbridge Island, WA and the entire Olympic Peninsula of Western Washington, we publish incredible authors like you from all around this big beautiful globe of ours.
Learn more about us and view (or even buy!) our titles on BainbridgeIsland.press
Bainbridge Island Press invites poets of all ages to participate in our poetry contest celebrating the natural beauty and wonder of gardens. This special competition will showcase selected works during our Poetry in Bloom event at the picturesque Bainbridge Gardens.
Contest Details:
- Theme: "Poetry in Bloom" - poems should explore garden-related topics, celebrating the beauty, seasons, growth, and life found in nature's cultivated spaces
- Eligibility: Open to poets of all ages from Bainbridge and surrounding areas
- Submission Deadline: July 20th
- Venue Partner: Bainbridge Gardens
- No submission fees
Live Reading Event: On July 31st, the Poetry in Bloom celebration will begin with a featured presentation by Bainbridge Island's Poet of the Year, Makaela Smith, who will share selections from her own works.
Following a brief intermission, Poetry Walk poets will be able to read their chosen poems.
Poetry Walk Experience: Selected poems will be beautifully displayed along the Bainbridge Gardens forest trail as part of our Poetry Walk installation. Visitors can stroll through nature while discovering verses that capture the poetic essence of garden life. The Poetry Walk will be available July 30 - August 3 , allowing guests to experience poetry and nature in harmony.
Join us for an unforgettable community event where poetry comes alive in a breathtaking garden setting.
We have a passion for undiscovered poets seeking to publish their first book. Whether this is your first or your fourteenth book, we're excited to engage with you.
Manuscripts should be approx 80-120 pages in length. You can submit your manuscripts in Word or PDF format. No reading fees are required.
Accepted submissions will be notified by email and offered a publishing contract. All published authors are compensated.
At BIP we believe chapbooks have become undervalued and become little more than short poetry books. We want to bring them back in the spirit of "zine culture" as short, fast, cheap works that allow work of any time to get into the hands of readers quickly, whether its an early seed of what will become a full poetry collection in the future or simply poems you don't feel belong elsewhere.
Submissions should be 20-40 pages in length in MS Word format.
Accepted submissions will be not be compensated. No reading fees are required.