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Check out an interview with the fabulous and talented on lovely blog! It is a must read! There are still a few hand-bo...
16/07/2025

Check out an interview with the fabulous and talented on lovely blog!

It is a must read!

There are still a few hand-bound, hand-cut, and hand numbered limited edition copies of Kelley Beeson's stunning chapbook, Undress available on our website www.leftyblondiepress.com! Snag your copy today!

Lefty Blondie loves libraries! Saturdays--sunshine and books, books, books!
21/06/2025

Lefty Blondie loves libraries!

Saturdays--sunshine and books, books, books!






Lefty Blondie Press is over the moon to announce the winner of our National Chapbook Contest!Congratulations to Allegra ...
20/06/2025

Lefty Blondie Press is over the moon to announce the winner of our National Chapbook Contest!

Congratulations to Allegra Wilson from Northern California and her striking manuscript songs and ruins!

Allegra Wilson is a writer living in Northern California. Her work has recently appeared in ANMLY, Up the Staircase Quarterly, The Inflectionist Review, and BRAWL.

Her debut chapbook was chosen by the inspiring and talented Stacey Waite! Words from Stacey to come!

songs and ruins will be edited, designed, hand-cut, handbound, and hand-numbered by the LBP editors and designers in collaboration with Allegra.

Allegra, welcome to Lefty Blondie Press and our growing family of badass poets and creatives!

Yours in ink,
Amy Lee and Marguerite



Congratulations to the Lefty Blondie Press 2025 First Chapbook Award First Runner-Up: 1-800-PACK-RAT by Jennifer Blackle...
19/06/2025

Congratulations to the Lefty Blondie Press 2025 First Chapbook Award First Runner-Up: 1-800-PACK-RAT by Jennifer Blackledge, selected by Stacey Waite! 

Jennifer Blackledge is a poet who works for a global automotive company and lives just south of Detroit. She is the recipient of the 2025 Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize and her work has appeared in publications like JAMA, Rattle, I-70 Review, Kestrel, and SWWIM.

You can find her work at www.jenniferblackledge.com and follow her on Instagram and on Facebook at Jennifer Blackledge Moberly on Facebook.

It was an honor and a privilege to read her luminous and powerful manuscript!

Announcing our Finalists for the 2025 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award! An immense congratulations to all! Marga...
19/06/2025

Announcing our Finalists for the 2025 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award!

An immense congratulations to all!

Margaret Bleichman: upon waking
Dawn Dupler: What A House Wants Is Lightning
Annie Marhefka: Salt/Water
Ellen Romano: How Quickly
Haylee Schwenk: In Case of Loss
Jacqui Somen: Ladies' Guide to Liminal Hiking
Laurel Szymkowiak: Agnes
Ann Tomer: Just One Blackbird

It was an honor reading your stunning chapbooks!




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We are thrilled to announce the Semi-Finalists of the 2025 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award!LA Anna: SoapboxAli ...
18/06/2025

We are thrilled to announce the Semi-Finalists of the 2025 Lefty Blondie Press First Chapbook Award!

LA Anna: Soapbox
Ali Beheler: All Our (Un)Makings (www.alibeheler.com)
Patsy Creedy: Allow
Sara Franco: Flotation Devices
Lynn D. Gilbert: The Midwest is a State of Mind
Linda Haslanger: Offerings
Beth Kanter: Slasher (bethkanter.com)
Jen OConnor: Sometimes It's All You Need
Joy Ellen Parker: Conversations with Caravaggio and Other Poems

Congratulations to all and thank you for trusting us with your work! 

A special thank you to our fabulous judge Stacey Waite!

Yours in ink, 
Amy Lee and Marguerite

 
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Lefty Blondie loves libraries! Weekly visits to the library are our favorite!
10/06/2025

Lefty Blondie loves libraries!

Weekly visits to the library are our favorite!



It was an honor to be panelists at the Pittsburgh Festival of Books! We loved speaking about our two favorite things--po...
01/06/2025

It was an honor to be panelists at the Pittsburgh Festival of Books! We loved speaking about our two favorite things--poetry and publishing!

Our mission is to promote the work of self-identifying women & non-binary poets and it was a gift to be able to offer advice and personal stories to poets in Pittsburgh and beyond!

Thank you for having us and for giving us the opportunity to tell our stories!



A Festival for Book Lovers, by Book Lovers! Lefty Blondie Press will be at the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books this...
28/05/2025

A Festival for Book Lovers, by Book Lovers!

Lefty Blondie Press will be at the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books this Saturday, May 31st from 10am to 5pm at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main in Oakland!

Please come and listen to amazing poets, meet the editors, mingle with the Pittsburgh literary community, and enter to win our awesome raffles, including soaps, Lefty Blondie earrings, Skydog by .beatty.1, Undress by , Reconstruction by , and Ghost Friends by , prints from Skydog cover artist , and much more!

We will have plenty of Lefty swag, chapbooks, and broadsides by and designed by for purchase!

We will also have some fun children's activities at our booth!

For more information and to secure your spot at your favorite author or poet's talk visit the website!

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Gorgeous reading by editor, Marguerite!!!!
28/05/2025

Gorgeous reading by editor, Marguerite!!!!

A Festival for Book Lovers, by Book Lovers! Lefty Blondie Press will be at the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books on M...
08/05/2025

A Festival for Book Lovers, by Book Lovers!

Lefty Blondie Press will be at the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books on May 31st from 10am to 5pm at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main in Oakland!

Please come and listen to amazing poets, meet the editors, mingle with the Pittsburgh literary community, and enter to win our awesome raffles, including goodies from local Pittsburgh businesses-- soaps, Lefty Blondie earrings, Skydog by .beatty.1, Undress by , Reconstruction by , and Ghost Friends by prints from Skydog cover artist and much more!

We will have plenty of Lefty swag, chapbooks, and broadsides by and designed by for purchase!

We will also have some fun children's activities at our booth!

For more information and to secure your spot at your favorite author or poet's talk visit the website!

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