Sometimes things go your way, other times, not so much. I don’t know why I’ve decided to start this blog post this way, something in the rhythms and the tides. Anyway, I’ve been thinking a lot about the seeming endless battle between the ‘no submission fees, ever’ clan and the those that don’t mind one. I think my personal opinion doesn’t really matter and this isn’t Twitter, so who cares. What I do believe is in a little transparency. With that said I thought I would share the number of submissions during our first ever chapbook contest and the amount in dollars from entry fees received in total.
We actually made our target of being able to pay the prize money without having to dig into our own pockets. Which is cool. In total we received 59 submissions to both competitions. 33 to the chapbook comp. and 26 to the micro. As we break that down further, of the $3.00 / $5.00 fees $2.41 / $4.31 comes to the press after PayPal takes out their cut. Which means that in total $205.88 came into the press. After we pay out the contest winners $150.00, we’ll be in the green or whatever $55.88.
We are not supported by any grants. We do not have a board of directors/investors. So, this is pretty big for us. It means that the literary community that we support also supports us and I think that’s how it is supposed to work.
If after reading this, you’re interested in supporting the press consider a subscription! We want to make this thing a long-distance runner.
You can expect to see more of these transparent blog posts as we would like to follow the journey of that $55.88.
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