A funded, community-based publishing opportunity

 

PENNY AUTHORS

A funded, community-based publishing opportunity

Penny Authors (PA) is an imprint of MAPublisher (MA).

Penny Authors is established to provide poets with an opportunity to see their work published, recognised and shared with a wider readership.

The project is financially supported by MAPublisher, which invests its own resources, time, publishing infrastructure and experience in bringing contributors' work into print.

There are no membership, submission or publication fees. Contributors are not asked to make financial donations.

However, Penny Authors is not simply a free poetry-printing arrangement. It is a community publishing initiative built around mutual recognition, support and participation.

Our participation principles

Contributors are expected to:

• Provide the information requested through the PA membership and contributor arrangements.

• Supply a personal photograph and short biography for their individual poet profile.

• Obtain a copy of the anthology in which their work appears.

• Participate in the Favourite Five and review process.

• Record their own published poem, where requested, for possible radio consideration.

• Produce a video reading of their published poem, showing the anthology, for the PA YouTube channel.

• Champion another contributor by recording a reading of their poem.

• Support PA's online activities through viewing, liking, commenting, subscribing and sharing where possible.

These requirements help establish a publishing community in which contributors recognise and support one another, rather than simply appearing in a publication and having no further involvement.

Our commitment to contributors

• Copyright remains with the individual poet.

• PA publishes selected work under a non-exclusive publishing permission.

• Contributors receive recognition in the anthology and an individual online poet profile.

• Contributors can use relevant publication covers and their own PA recordings to promote their work, subject to the applicable permissions.

• Contributors may have an opportunity to develop their own book through MAPublisher.

Penny Authors – Championing the spirit within.