Last month, GTP announced a new submissions manager and a new staff member. Today, we’re introducing that staff member – Poetry Editor Alan Beyersdorf – and his project within Glass Tower Press.
- Feliza Casano is the editor in chief of Glass Tower Press.
If you’ve been paying attention to the Glass Tower Press blog site, you may have noticed quite a few changes over the past few months. We’ve made plenty of changes and hope these changes will help us grow.
Since starting our reboot in November, we’ve had a number of structural changes to our website. Our submissions and guidelines pages have changed dramatically, and we have added a page of submissions we will not accept that is separate from our guidelines page in order to make the guidelines page more streamlined.
We have also added a new submission managing program through the site Submishmash. Submishmash offers a great submission system separated into categories. Accounts to submit are totally free, and you can use it to submit to any of a number of publications on their site. Eventually, we plan to expand our use of Submishmash to include contest entries and other types of submissions.
Many of these changes are thanks at least in part to our new staff member. If you head on over to the Staff page, you’ll find we have a new poetry editor. Welcome to Alan Beyersdorf, who will now be accepting poetry chapbook submissions for Glass Tower Press!
In the future, Glass Tower Press may be looking for more staff as submissions increase. Please stay tuned to get more information, particularly upcoming information about GTP accepting potential high school and college interns.
- Feliza Casano is the founder and editor in chief of Glass Tower Press.
Glass Tower Press products may now be accessed directly from our Facebook page.
Those interested in buying copies of any GTP title or merchandise can purchase it directly from our Big Cartel application on our Facebook page.
Please note purchases will include shipping and handling costs.
While we’re on the topic of the 2012 theme Hope and Hopelessness, here are some of the topics we are most interested in for submissions of poetry chapbooks, including those not related to this year’s theme:
Currently, we are not interested in the following:
Please refer to our Submissions page to find out how to submit a poetry collection to Glass Tower Press.
Glass Tower Press is issuing a call for submissions from now until March 1, 2012.
Authors and poets are invited to submit poetry collections of at least six poems and individual stories of at least 1,500 words related to the Theme 2012 “Hope & Hopelessness.”
Manuscripts will be considered for publication during GTP’s 2012 publishing year. We hope to publish up to 5 chapbooks and a short story collection.
Poems must be fully developed before submission; workshopping poetry before submitting is encouraged. Please submit query, two sample poems, and full collection outline for poetry.
For short stories, please submit query and full text.
Novel submissions will also be accepted. Please follow Glass Tower Press’ general submission guidelines for novels, which can be found here.
Submit digital copy in PDF format to gtp.editor [at] gmail [dot] com.
Glass Tower Press is opening a call for submissions for ENDINGS-THE DENOUEMENT, a writing competition for high school and college-age students (14-27).
Submissions wanted for ENDINGS-THE DENOUEMENT are works themed around “Endings,” the end of something old with the element of something else beginning. All fiction should be innovative and interesting. Possible genres include light fantasy, thriller, and horror. Glass Tower Press would prefer short story submissions between 1,500 words and 4,000 words, although 1-page submissions of poetry will also be considered.
To submit to the contest, please include a cover letter and one copy of the work. The text of the submission should be in 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with 1-inch margins. The deadline to submit to the ENDINGS-THE DENOUEMENT contest is 31 March 2011.
Entry fees are $5 for the first work and $2 for all additional works. Fee payments accepted by check only. Works must be submitted at the same time to receive entry fee discount for additional works. Monetary and merchandise prizes will be awarded to First, Second, and Third Place contest winners. Runners-up (up to 5) will receive one Glass Tower Press title. Honorable mentions (up to 7) will receive a certificate. All winners will have the chance to be published in the ENDINGS-THE DENOUEMENT collection, scheduled for release in late 2012.
All entries should be mailed to the following address:
ENDINGS-THE DENOUEMENT Contest
Glass Tower Press
506 Ogden Ave.
Toledo, OH 43609
You may also contact Feliza Casano, Editor, at gtp.editor@gmail.com.
Glass Tower Press is releasing an official call for submissions for the month of July 2010.
GTP is looking for the following submissions this summer for possible release in an August 2010 publication:
Submissions are open to all student writers, fitting with GTP’s mission statement. GTP is also looking for distributors in the Northwest/Northeast Ohio areas, including urban areas and college campuses.
Interested parties can contact the editor at gtp[dot]editor[at]gmail[dot]com.
The online store for Glass Tower Press is now online.
The store is hosted at Big Cartel and contains sales for GTP’s first title, The TECH Project. Other items will eventually be posted to the shop, including specialized merchandise and book-related items.
If you would like to request specific items, such as specialty T-shirts or different editions of books, please contact the Editor through the form on the store site.
The URL for the GTP Online Store is http://glasstowerpress.bigcartel.com.
