This excellent article by Susan Rich provides insights and tips on how to best present your chapbook to presses and contests. The article includes ten well-described tips from her personal editing experience, including:

1. Persistence. Persistence. Persistence.
2. Follow the Rules
3. Create a Theme that Provides Coherence
4. Ordering your Manuscript is an Art
5. Know the Press Before You Press Send
6. Think about a Book Doctor or Outside Editor
7. Keep Track of Your Expenses; Start a Poetry Account
8. Research, Research, Research
9. Think About Publishing Creatively
10. Don’t Get Discouraged!

Tips For Publishing Chapbooks and Applying to Residencies – What I’ve Learned As A Judge

Susan Rich is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently, Cloud Pharmacy and The Alchemist’s Kitchen, which was a Finalist for the Foreword Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her other books include Cures Include Travel (2006) and The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World