BY PDR LINDSAY SALMON
Red Bird Chapbooks is an unusual US indie producing ‘artistically appealing’ handcrafted chapbooks. See the website and read all the guidelines carefully: they differ for each category.
The chapbooks are unique, usually 48 pages, ‘individually designed to reflect and enhance the author’s words and ideas’. The Broadside Project has artists and writers working together to make a ‘broadside’, ie a poster, made to be displayed ‘at local community gathering spots.’ Broadsides are sold through the website. Pamphlets are made to ‘fit nicely in pockets, purses, briefcases and greeting cards’. They are the perfect size for ‘short works like essays, flash fiction and poems.’