Slapering Hol Press, the small press imprint of The Hudson Valley Writers' Center, was founded in 1990 to publish emerging poets and thematic anthologies. It celebrates some of the best new poets by presenting their work in finely crafted chapbooks and volumes.

Since 1991 Slapering Hol (Old Dutch for Sleepy Hollow) has held an annual Chapbook Competition for emerging poets. The 2010 winning chapbook is Driving Montana, Alone by Katie Philips.

Previous Winning Chapbooks

• Driving Montana, Alone (2010) by Katie Phillips
• No Blues This Raucous Song (2009) by Lynn Wagner
• A Thirst That's Partly Mine (2008) by Liz Ahl
• The Heart That Lies Outside the Body (2007) by Stephanie Lenox
• Falling into Velázquez (2006) by Mary Kaiser
• A House That Falls (2005) by Sean Nevin
• Juliet As Herself (2004) by Nancy Taylor Everett
• Days When Nothing Happens (2003) by David Tucker
• The Scottish Café (2002) by Susan H. Case
• The Landscape of Mind (2001) by Jianqing Zheng
• Freight (2000) by Sondra Upham
• Islands (1999) by Andrew Krivak
• The Last Campaign (1998) by Rachel Loden
• No Pine Tree in This Forest Is Perfect (1997) by Ellen Goldsmith
• Bonanza (1996) by Lynn McGee
• Muscle & Bone (1995) by Paul-Victor Winters
• Weathering (1993) by Pearl Karrer
• Note for a Missing Friend (1991) by Dina Ben-Lev

Anthologies and other publications

• Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (2011) by Denise Duhamel and Amy Lemmon
• Hudson River Haiku (2009) by Helen Barolini
• Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (2008) by Elizabeth Alexander and Lyrae Van Clief Stefanon
• Water Stories (2003) by Brighde Mullins
• What's Become of Eden: Poems of Family at Century's End (1994, 2nd printing 1999) edited by Stephanie Strickland
• River Poems (1992) edited by Stephanie Strickland and Anneliese Wagner
• Voices from the River (1990) edited by Margo Stever and Patricia Farewell
  
  

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For information on the 2011 competition guidelines, click here.

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