Chapbooks.com allows teachers to publish student writing anthologies in the form of beautiful paperback books for as little as $5 each for 30 copies. Last spring, several Write to Change teachers published books and gave their students the pride of publication. Some of these books became the centerpieces of author nights and signing events at the schools, involving the whole community.

Chapbooks.com is proud to announce the continuation of its New Publisher Program, which has to date helped over 500 teachers around the country turn their students into published authors.

This year, Chapbooks.com is working with Write to Change to make these grants available to our members.

The New Publisher Program awards micro-grants to K-12 and college level classroom teachers to publish anthologies of student writing in paperback book form through Chapbooks.com's new online private publishing service. New Publisher micro-grants of $160 cover the production and shipping costs for 30 copies of an anthology. There are absolutely no further obligations on the part of the recipients.

Grant recipients must have basic user-level familiarity with any standard word processing program and access to the Internet either at home or at school to use the grant.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 1, 2000.

ODER DEADLINE: June 30, 2000.

HOW TO APPLY:

1.	Between now and April 1, visit http://www.chapbooks.com/org_grants.html
2.	Enter this code number: 138
3.	Fill out our online form.
4.	The first 50 applicants will receive an email with a SPECIAL OFFER CODE. You can use this code when you place your order by June 30.

HOW TO ORDER:

To order, you must have your book manuscript in the form of a single word processing file (any kind), prepared according to our simple guidelines. Please PROOFREAD your manuscript carefully before you send it, since there is only one free round of corrections once we create your page proofs.

When you have the file ready, go to our web site and follow the simple instructions to choose styles for your book and send us your file right through our web page. (more details at http://www.chapbooks.com/org_grants.html)

RESTRICTIONS:

1.	The application deadline is April 1, 2000
2.	The deadline to place your order and submit a complete file is June 30, 2000. Please give yourself enough time to prepare your document and review it carefully before ordering.
3.	Previous recipients of New Publisher micro-grants are not eligible to apply.
4.	Multiple grant recipients cannot combine their grants to produce a single order. Only one grant can be used per order.
5.	The Chapbooks. com publishing process is entirely Internet-based. You must be comfortable using recent web browsers (IE or Netscape 4.0 or higher ), email, and Adobe Acrobat Reader (this is free software to read PDF files).

The Chapbooks Website: http://www.Chapbooks.com

Village Green teachers are welcome to apply for this Chapbooks grant.

E-mail:   dixie_goswami@breadnet.middlebury.edu

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