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Bedbug Press publishes its poetry books under the imprints Cloudbank Books and Fairweather Books. Cloudbank or Fairweather authors may be living in the Northwest or anywhere in the U.S. or Canada . We select our authors from submissions to The Rhea and Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition which has been held annually since 2003. The prize winning poet receives a $ 500 prize and his or her book is published in the spring of the year following the contest year. Contest guidelines for the 2006 contest are available on this web site.

George Estreich's "Textbook Illustrations of the Human Body" was the winner of the 2003 prize, Kevin Craft's “Solar Prominence” was the winner for 2004; in 2005, two poets shared the prize: Susan Davis for “Gathering Sound,” and Juan Morales for “Friday and the Year that Followed,” and, in 2006, the prize went to John C.Morrison’s “Heaven of the Moment.”

Our national contest draws many outstanding manuscripts from all over the country.  In 2005 we published three other books by poets who submitted their manuscripts to our contest: “Night Highway," by Barbara Koons, of Indianapolis , IN, “Red Kimono, Yellow Barn,” by David Hassler, of Kent, OH , and  “A Bride of Narrow Escape,” by Paulann Petersen, of Portland, OR.  In 2007, we published Freddy Frankel’s “In a Stone’s Hollow.”  Freddy lives in Boston, MA.

We are pleased to say that each of these poets received awards: Barbara Koons was 1st Finalist for Poetry in the 2006 Best Books of Indiana Awards given by the Indiana State Library; David Hassler was named 2006 Poet of the Year by the Ohio Poetry Day Association; Paulann Petersen has been doubly honored by Oregon Literary Arts, receiving The Stewart H.Holbrook Literary Legacy Award and also being selected as a finalist for the 2006 Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry, and Freddy Frankel won the New England Writers Robert Penn Warren First Award.

Since Paulann Petersen lives in Portland, OR , “A Bride of Narrow Escape” becomes the fourth book in our Northwest Poetry Series which consists of books by noteworthy and mainly previously unpublished poets who reside in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, or British Columbia or Alberta , the two western provinces of Canada. The series now includes the following titles:

1. “My Problem with the Truth,” by Chris Anderson
2. “Insects of South Corvallis ,” by Charles Goodrich
3. “Out of Town,” by Lex Runciman
4. “A Bride of Narrow Escape,” by Paulann Petersen

We are happy to announce that, beginning with the 2005 poetry contest, all those submitting manuscripts can also receive a free copy of any of our poetry books.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Bedbug Press, Inc.
Tony Gorsline, publisher
PO Box 39
Brownsville , OR 97327
Phone (541) 466-5913
tg@bedbugpress.com