ChapbookS, Submissions, & Other Methods of INTERPRETING Love   

ABOUT  : Nostrovia! 's Chapbook Contest began in March 2015, initiated by Christopher Morgan's arrival to the press. Chris & Jeremiah Walton kicked this off to inspire ourselves & inspire others & promote the accessibility of passionate living > making a living thru writing with hands. All our publications are available using a 'pay-what-you-can' model to avoid denying anyone literature who otherwise could not afford it. All our projects are free to submit.

SUBMISSIONS : We do not announce chapbook submission dates in advance. The submission window opens for a two-day period during the early months of each year.
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All submission entries should be accompanied by a 2-4 sentence bio and any relevant links in the body of the email. Please attach your chapbook manuscript as a pdf/doc/docx file to the email. Additionally: 

• Submissions must be ~20 pages min/~30 pages max (including ToC, Acknowledgements, etc)
• Acknowledgments page required for all previously published pieces
• Please start each piece on a new page
• Individual pieces may be previously published, but large portions of the manuscript cannot be already published
• Prose, poetry, and hybrid combinations are all welcome (in traditional or experimental styles)
• Please double-space all fiction and essays 
• We’re open to collaborations, translation, reviews, art, and anything you can think of–surprise us!
• Please include your pronouns in your bio/submission so we can properly refer to you <3​

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​Submissions are ONLY ACCEPTED on the designated flash submission days [ ?/?? - ?/?? ]. One manuscript per person, please. Any entry received after the selected dates will not be considered for publication. We read every manuscript, and will have our picks for finalists within one month of submissions!

FULL CATALOG : available here

2018 chapbook series

our 2016 contest winners

our 2017 contest winners

nostrovia chapbooks 2015

WHAT WE OFFER OUR AUTHORS : 

• 20 author copies (plus free copies of the other winning chaps for the year!)
• An initial print run of 125 copies, w. a 2nd print run as needed 
• Beautiful cover art! We'll work with you if you have someone in mind, or we'll get you in touch with one of our friends
• Expert printing & binding, courtesy of CA Mullins @ Bottlecap Press
• Online release of our winning chaps as free ebooks later in the year
• An invitation to feature at N!P‘s yearly online reading
• Reviews & blurbs for your book from within N!P‘s friends network  
• Winners will have extensive involvement regarding their cover art, interior design, and general editing, with plenty of guidance from our chapbook editors, Christopher Morgan & Bob Sykora
• We also offer the +10 Finalists the opportunity to be included in our annual e-zine

DISTRIBUTION : We distribute in some funky ways ... like Books & Shovels, our traveling bookstore.

We're often found vending & busking across the US--at independent festivals, open mics, solicited stages, & wherever feels good to kick it.

Occasionally we work with brick & mortar bookstores. Because we haven't uncovered an extra dozen work horses hidden in our body's abilities, we also distribute thru our online store.

2015 Books & Shovels tour, Flagstaff, AZ

CONTACT : for information regarding distribution, consignment, marketing, & Advanced Review Copies, please contact us at

nostroviachapbooks [at] gmail [dot] com

Nostrovia! History Morsels

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HISTORY MORSELS : The seeds planted at 16, cutting class & stealing printer ink from the teacher's lounge for zines & chapbooks that looked exactly like what they were; punky diy teenage angst titles. Thankfully, that angst was fertile with curiosity. & that curiosity tumbled a long series of happy accidents that resulted in crossing paths with Christopher Morgan, the founder & editor our annual Chapbook Contest series.

Inspired by the BEST PRIZE chapbook contest at Big Lucks, our first contest kicked off early 2015 to prepare for our third round at the NYC Poetry Festival. Winners had the oppurtunity to fill our performance line-up. 
 
Community response surpassed expectations. Over 80 submissions landed in our inbox within 48 hrs. Those #s steadily rose as subsequent contests established Nostrovia! Press in the indie lit community. The support & love we've received has been pivotal to our development as a press. Your input & feedback helps us interpret our compass, examine how we navigate community, & evaluate ourselves as individuals relative to that community.

2015 concluded successfully with an online poetry reading featuring the contest's finalists & winners. We were celebrating the strong debut of all 3 titles selling out within a couple of months of their release, 3x succesful Books & Shovels tour, our new friends & connections, the "Best Chapbook Series" award N!P received at The Fifth Annual Beachies, & to avoid tempting the list to continue past your patience, the celebration occured in conjuction of the free PDFs re-release of 2015's winners.

2015 became a model we tweaked & twisted, cultivated, mistaked, developed & matured through the subsequant 4 years of contests.

2016 also debuted at the NYC Poetry Festival, followed by a Books & Shovels tour hitting the Tucson Poetry Festival, Save the Date Brooklyn Poetry Festival, This Lil Lit Fest in Denver, & a scattered score of open mics & street corners.

We've done our best to grow our press & ability to offer our authors unique, efficient distribution. In that spirit, in 2018, Bob Sykora joined our crew as a Chapbook Editor.
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2020, & Nostrovia! is a slow burn. 2019 was our first quiet year. Editors relocating, non-literary travel, amorphous iteneraries ... but our excitement to bring your work into the world still glows strong <3 

dinner snapshot, 2015 Books & Shovels tour

Christopher Morgan at Death Rattle, Boise, ID 2017

Books & Shovels crew, Lawrence, KS, 2014

struggling with an axle, Albuquerque, NM, 2015