Bainbridge Island, Washington · Est. 2025
Ink & Ribbon Press
A nonprofit publisher devoted to books that carry a life inside them —
works realized with care, bound with craft, and made to endure.
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Limited editions, carefully made & meant to last.
A meditative collection rooted in Oregon's wet seasons and shaped by spiritual and poetic tradition.
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Each year, The LemonLight Prize celebrates the brilliance and daring of contemporary poets.
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A trilogy of poetry collections tracing identity, transformation, and the lyric self across a life fully lived.
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The LemonLight Prize
$3,000
An annual award celebrating brilliance, originality, and craft in contemporary poetry. Winner receives publication in the prize anthology, cash award, and featured interviews.
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Bound as objects of beauty, meant to be held, kept, and returned to.
Books for
Collectors
Our Fine Art Editions are designed as lasting literary objects — intimate, tactile, and deliberately made. These are not simply books, but finely bound works that honor both text and form, produced in very limited numbers alongside each standard edition.
Each edition is bound by McCall Co. Bindery, an award-winning artisan whose work brings together traditional craftsmanship and enduring design.
- Hand-bound archival construction
- Made in very limited numbered editions
- Printed on collector-grade archival papers
- Signed by the poet
Every page we print is an act of devotion.
Ink & Ribbon Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary publisher on Bainbridge Island, Washington. We advance poetry through craft, collaboration, and community — publishing limited editions made to endure as both literary and physical objects.
Bainbridge Island, WA · 501(c)(3)