Poets, do you combine experiment, exploration, existential freedom in your work with form, structure, stricture, constraint? Then you will want to look into the Fitzpatrick-O’Dinn Award for the Best Book Length Work of Constrained Literature, offered by Spineless Books. Submission deadline is December 31, 2003, entry fee $20, judge Christian Bök. The winning manuscript will be published (“artfully,” we are assured) in 2004 by Spineless Books, both “as a book (with a spine), and in an electronic format that complements the form.”
William Gillespie, the man behind Spineless Books, has long been a poetic presence on the Net: He founded Newspoetry and collaborated with Scott Rettberg, Dirk Stratton & Frank Marquardt on the hypertext novel, The Unknown, winner of the trAce/Alt-X Hypertext Competition 1998. Now at Brown University, he began Spineless Books on 20.02.2002 and has published books, CDs, floppy disks & electronic hypertexts including his own collaboration with Nick Montfort, 2002: A Palindrome Story. The Spineless Web site is full of writing tools & toys and home to Table of Forms, a playground for writers interested in forms, word games & experimentation.
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Our library of poetry publishers
Our links to word games & online poetry collaborations
William Gillespie, the man behind Spineless Books, has long been a poetic presence on the Net: He founded Newspoetry and collaborated with Scott Rettberg, Dirk Stratton & Frank Marquardt on the hypertext novel, The Unknown, winner of the trAce/Alt-X Hypertext Competition 1998. Now at Brown University, he began Spineless Books on 20.02.2002 and has published books, CDs, floppy disks & electronic hypertexts including his own collaboration with Nick Montfort, 2002: A Palindrome Story. The Spineless Web site is full of writing tools & toys and home to Table of Forms, a playground for writers interested in forms, word games & experimentation.
Related resources:
Our articles & links to contests & awards
Our library of poetry publishers
Our links to word games & online poetry collaborations
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