Challenge-Only Package (The Poet's Monthly Manuscript Challenge Entry)
This option is for poets who feel called to the month’s theme and want the structure, prompts, and accountability of the challenge - but prefer to:
Keep their work private
Revise independently
Want to create new work to share with readers
Publish on their own timeline
Or simply write without pressure to produce a finished book
This package honors writing as an act of presence, not performance.
What’s Included
Full access to the selected month’s theme You’ll receive the complete theme overview, craft focus, and all 30 expanded writing prompts for that month.
20 Days of Structured Writing You’ll write up to 20 poems during the month, guided by prompts designed to help you build a cohesive chapbook-length body of work.
Manuscript-Building Guidance Light guidance on shaping your poems into a chapbook draft by the end of the month (ordering, cohesion, and theme alignment).
Personal Use Rights to Your Work All poems remain fully yours. You may revise, submit, or publish them independently at any time.
What This Package Does Not Include
Editing or feedback
Formatting or layout
ISBN or publishing support
Uploading to retailers
This option ends with you holding a completed draft, not a published book.
What You’ll Walk Away With
By the end of the month, you’ll have:
A complete or near-complete poetry chapbook draft
Work written in emotional real-time, not retrospectively
Clarity about whether this collection is meant to be published later
This package is about capturing the moment - before it changes.
This option is for poets who feel called to the month’s theme and want the structure, prompts, and accountability of the challenge - but prefer to:
Keep their work private
Revise independently
Want to create new work to share with readers
Publish on their own timeline
Or simply write without pressure to produce a finished book
This package honors writing as an act of presence, not performance.
What’s Included
Full access to the selected month’s theme You’ll receive the complete theme overview, craft focus, and all 30 expanded writing prompts for that month.
20 Days of Structured Writing You’ll write up to 20 poems during the month, guided by prompts designed to help you build a cohesive chapbook-length body of work.
Manuscript-Building Guidance Light guidance on shaping your poems into a chapbook draft by the end of the month (ordering, cohesion, and theme alignment).
Personal Use Rights to Your Work All poems remain fully yours. You may revise, submit, or publish them independently at any time.
What This Package Does Not Include
Editing or feedback
Formatting or layout
ISBN or publishing support
Uploading to retailers
This option ends with you holding a completed draft, not a published book.
What You’ll Walk Away With
By the end of the month, you’ll have:
A complete or near-complete poetry chapbook draft
Work written in emotional real-time, not retrospectively
Clarity about whether this collection is meant to be published later
This package is about capturing the moment - before it changes.