Main Street Rag, PO BOX 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001
704-573-2516, contact usWelcome!
Main Street Rag Publishing Company has been publishing our print magazine: Main Street Rag, uninterrupted since 1996. Among its features are poetry, short fiction, photography and graphic images, essays, interviews, reviews, cartoons and commentary.
Subscription information and submission guidelines for MSR are available on the submissions page. Current and back issue information--including who appears in each issue--can now be found at The MSR Online Bookstore on the back and current issues page. There are separate pages for the purchase of both books published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company and one for subscriptions to our quarterly print magazine. All conveniently available for purchase online with the security of PayPal.
We publish poetry collections through our annual chapbook contest as well as The Main Street Rag Poetry Award for full-length collections. Information for both chapbook and full-length book contests are available on the Contest page.
Our magazine is financed through subscriptions, direct sales and shelf sales. We receive no money in the form of grants or public funds. Reader support is important and necessary.
But Main Street Rag is more than just another small press. We are a bindery and publishing company. We can aid writers as well as other publishers with their projects from start to finish, set up to shipping.
Main Street Rag owns its own bindery equipment and specializes in producing perfect bound books and booklets from start to finish. On our Bindery Page, viewers will find a list of the services we offer as well as an abreviated fee schedule. For quotes, please email us with the specifics (as outlined on the Bindery Page) or call 704-573-2516 (M-F, 8am-5pm EST).
In December 2001, Main Street Rag began circulating a monthly electronic newsletter: the MSR Newletter. Among other things, its goal is to provide subscribers with a monthly reminder of events, deadlines, contests, and magazines that are actively seeking manuscripts. To learn more about this service, just click.
We hope you enjoy your visit to Main Street Rag. Even more, we hope you like what you see enough to subscribe or sample a copy of the real thing. There is nothing like the smell and feel of paper pulp.
Sincerely,
M. Scott Douglass
Publisher/Managing Editor
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Main Street Rag, PO BOX 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001
704-573-2516, contact us