It has been a while, unfortunately, since Eibonvale Press was open to public submissions. This is not a condition that I particularly like, since I always valued being open to new authors. However, sheer busyness means that I have to keep careful control of the press to avoid getting swamped – and in the end exhaustion from trying to do too much led to me taking a break entirely. Now however, I am releasing a call for works specifically for a new line of chapbooks that I am starting. I am looking for individual works or micro-collections of up to 10,000 words or so. You can see the full details and download the guidelines here:
http://www.eibonvalepress.co.uk/infoforwriters.htm
I am specifically keen to find some new faces here, especially the under-represented, which the press rather needs! Indeed, I am hoping that about two thirds of these will be people who have not been published by Eibonvale before.
I am seeing this line of chapbooks as visually rather different to the existing Eibonvale books, with covers based more on simple line-art rather than complex collages. The recent special offer chapbook by Brendan Connell is a simple example of what I have in mind, as is the kind of art that I have used before in the interior of certain books. For example, here and here.
I hope to do these chapbooks in both hardcover and paperback, both of which will be quite economically priced volumes. Tiny hardcovers are very much a possibility with my printers and they are not something I have experimented with until now. Hardcovers are still my favourite binding, and they do sell – sometimes even outselling the paperback edition – so there is really no reason why I should not make them here. Hopefully the hardcovers would be a nice collectable matching set!
I am really quite excited about this. Hopefully these chapbooks will be a lively thread running through Eibonvale Press for a while yet.
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