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 brilliance and daring in contemporary poetry.
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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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Every Ink & Ribbon title is produced as a limited edition, hand-bound in the Pacific Northwest, made to last as both a literary and a physical object.
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The LemonLight Prize
$3,000An annual award celebrating brilliance, originality, and craft in contemporary poetry. The winner receives publication in the prize anthology, a cash award, and featured interviews.
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Bound as objects of beauty, meant to be held, kept, and returned to.
Our Fine Art Editions are designed as lasting literary objects — intimate, tactile, and deliberately made. Each edition is bound by McCall Co. Bindery in Poulsbo, Washington, an award-winning artisan whose work brings traditional craftsmanship together with enduring design.
- Hand-bound archival construction
- Numbered limited editions
- Collector-grade archival papers
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)