Write a foreword to any Arjuna Badger Press book. The one we choose is published inside the book — your name on the first page, where the ghost used to be — and you receive a printed hardcover of that edition, sent to you. The books stay free for everyone; this is the one page that gets a name on it.
An invitation
Write the foreword
Every book in this house used to open with a foreword. I wrote them — or rather, the machine and I did, in borrowed voices — and on listening back I found them hollow: clever, and false. So I pulled every one. The first page of each book is bare now, and it should belong to a reader, not to a ghost.
The prize
How to enter
Read a book — they're all free, right here. Then write its foreword: what the book did to you, what it's really about, why a stranger should begin it. Aim for roughly 300–800 words — short enough to be the door, not the house. Entries are open on a rolling basis.
The rules, plainly
Your words, written by you — not by an AI (we've had enough of those). One person, one voice. By entering you allow us to print your foreword in the book, with credit, if it wins; you keep the copyright. We will never ask you for a fee or for money — entry is free and always will be, and the only thing that ever changes hands is a book going to you.