All About Chapbooks
I’m Chapbook Girl, a name I acquired in college, but one that I gladly embrace. I absolutely love chapbooks. I like making them, writing them, and most of all, I enjoy giving them away as gifts. I’ve been on a tight budget most of my life, and chapbooks have been a great way to give something wonderful to others without breaking the bank!
This website is my way of encouraging the craft of chapbook making. I have included links to various videos that will help anyone learn how to create a chapbook using whatever tools you may already possess. Anyone can learn. It’s both easy and fun.
I also include a list of professional Chapbook Publishers. If you have a collection of stories or poems you hope to get professionally published in chapbook form, you can submit your work to a chapbook publisher. Maybe one of them will agree to publish you!
Start here
If you’re new to chapbooks, these guides walk you through the whole thing, from a pile of poems to a finished booklet you can hand to someone:
- How to make a chapbook, start to finish
- Chapbook format: size, page count, and layout
- Ordering the poems in your manuscript
- What it costs to print a chapbook
- How to publish a chapbook: contests, presses, and doing it yourself
- Chapbook vs. pamphlet, zine, and poetry collection
- The Chapbook Wiki for the history and the full picture