Introduction

Snapshot Press is an independent publishing house specializing in haiku, tanka and other short poetry.

Founded in 1997, it has since published over 50 titles. Four of these have been honored in the Haiku Society of America's annual book awards, and, in 2008, The Poetry Society of America announced that The Unworn Necklace by Roberta Beary had been honored as a finalist in the prestigious William Carlos Williams Award.

Several new projects are already underway, or are being planned for 2009 to 2012, and will be announced on a comprehensively redesigned and updated website as soon as possible in 2009. A mailing list announcement will be made as soon as the new site is live. In the meantime it is possible to order any of our books online or by mail order.

Please note that we are not currently considering unsolicited manuscripts or fielding enquiries regarding book publication. However, details of our new submission guidelines will be posted early in 2009. Familiarity with our list is advisable for any author seeking publication.

Latest News & Developments:

Books

The dedicated website for Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku is now live. Written and compiled by John Barlow and Matthew Paul, illustrated by Sean Gray, and with a foreword by Stephen Moss, Wing Beats features 323 haiku and 131 species of British birds. Extensive informative texts also explore both British avifauna and the history and intricacies of haiku poetry, considering the relationships between these in a global context.
"artistically moving, and intellectually stimulating—a very important book"—William J. Higginson
"a triumph of seeing, expression and poetic control"—Mark Cocker
(Hardback, 320 pp., ISBN 978-1-903543-24-5)

The Poetry Society of America have announced that The Unworn Necklace by Roberta Beary has been honored as a finalist in the William Carlos Williams Award. Published in August 2007, the book is fast selling out of its second print run.

Water Lines by Carolyn Hall won Second Place in the Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards for 2007.

Other recent titles include:

• A Handful of Pebbles - Mark Brooks (haiku)
• Growing Late - Tom Clausen (tanka)
• Waiting for the Seventh Wave - John Barlow (haiku)
• The Horse with One Blue Eye - Cherie Hunter Day (haiku)
• Shaped by the Wind - Ferris Gilli (haiku)
• Snow About To Fall - John Barlow (tanka)
• Stumbles in Clover - Matt Morden (haiku)
• The Regulars - Matthew Paul (haiku)
• First Light, First Shadows - George Swede (tanka)

These and earlier titles, such as Ebb Tide: Selected Haiku by John Crook, can be ordered online or by mail order.

Snapshot Press is also proud to act as a distributor for The Tanka Anthology. Edited by Michael McClintock, Pamela Miller Ness & Jim Kacian, and published by Red Moon Press in the US, this extensive hardback volume presents "a generous, broad sampling of the finest tanka poetry by contemporary English-language practitioners from around the world". Copies can be ordered online or by mail order.

The Haiku Calendar

The Haiku Calendar 2009 can be ordered online or by mail order.

Submissions

Details of our new submission guidelines will be posted early in 2009. An email mailing list announcement will be made as soon as these are available. Please note that in the interim we are not considering unsolicited manuscripts and are unable to field any enquiries regarding book publication.

The Haiku Calendar Competition 2009 is, however, open to entries (until April 30, 2009).

Familiarity with our list is advisable for any author seeking publication. We are not a 'vanity' (aka 'equity' or 'subsidy') press: authors receive a contracted royalty agreement and we commit to all the publishing costs and to the considerable risks involved. (For further information on the differences between commercial and vanity publishing, and between vanity publishing and self-publishing, please see www.vanitypublishing.info.)

Contests

The results of The Haiku Calendar Competition 2008 have been announced.

The deadline for The Haiku Calendar Competition 2009 is April 30, 2009.

The winner of The Snapshot Press Haiku Collection Competition 2006 is The Unworn Necklace by Roberta Beary. The complete results are available here.

The winner of The Snapshot Press Tanka Collection Competition 2005 is First Light, First Shadows by George Swede. The complete results are available here.

The format of the collection contests will be revised before the next deadline. Details will be available shortly.

Journals

Issue 12 of Snapshots and Issue 5 of Tangled Hair can be ordered online or by mail order.

Please note that we are no longer able to consider submissions for either journal. Snapshot Press, however, continues to publish both haiku and tanka books, as well as The Haiku Calendar.

Ordering Online

It is now possible to place orders online in several currencies, including Pounds Sterling, US Dollars, and Euros, using a credit or debit card.
However, you do not need a bank or credit card account in any of these currencies to make an online purchase through our payment processor, PayPal.

Mailing List

If you would like to be kept updated on news and developments, and receive regular exclusive special offers, please join our mailing list by sending your name, email and postal address to mailinglist@snapshotpress.co.uk.
Your details will not be made available to any third party at any time. If for any reason you ever decide you would like to be removed from this mailing list, simply send an email with subject line 'unsubscribe' to the above address.

Contact Us

For any other queries please contact us at info@snapshotpress.co.uk, or by post at: Snapshot Press, PO Box 132, Waterloo, Liverpool, L22 8WZ, UK.

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