Maverick Duck Press was founded in 2005 to help give a voice to undiscovered talent in poetry. We are a small chapbook micro-press that publishes limited run, saddle stapled chapbooks. We look for fresh talent with an eye for detail, a powerful voice and the ability to make the reader feel something. Our books are available through this website and via readings from our poets. MDP has been a labor of love, and it exists for the sake of the work and the art of poetry.

Editor-in-chief - Kendall A. Bell

Assistant Editor - Brielle Kelton

All chapbook manuscripts should be sent as a MS Word file and contain no more than 18 pages. No simultaneous submissions or previously published manuscripts/chapbooks, however, a manuscript may contain poems within it that have been published in print or online lit mags. Please keep the formatting of your poems simple, as we have to contain the work within a landscape oriented view. Due to the large amount of submissions we receive, a response in regards to submissions could take up to four months. We do not accept submissions through postal mail. Send submissions to maverickduckpress@yahoo.com

We offer a payment of twenty chapbooks to poets chosen for publication. We also offer a 50% discount if the author chooses to purchase additional copies. This discount stands for as long as the title remains in publication at MDP.

Micro-chapbook submissions should not exceed a total of ten poems. The above guidelines apply to micro-chaps, as well. Published micro-chapbooks become a free download in our catalog.