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2 | Name of press/publisher | Name of contest (if applicable) | Currently Open? | Next/Current Reading period opens | Next/Most Recent Deadline | Notes/date last updated | About | Eligibility / focus | Recent authors published | Recent judge(s), if applicable | Editor(s) | URL (contest, current reading period) | URL (books) | Fee | Simultaneous submissions (yes/no) | Est. response time/when selections are typically announced | Certain % work unpublished? | Page count max / min | Honorarium / royalties | Author copies | Additional manuscripts published? | Binding style | Printing style | Distribution method (website only, subscribers & website, SPD or another distributor, or hard to order) | Typical press run | Blurbs? | Other publicity material/efforts? (review coverage, send review copies, feature an excerpt from the book on their website, ...) | Submits for postpublication awards? | Press Location | 2024: Reading Period Opens | 2024: Deadline | 2023 Reading Window Opens | 2023 Deadline | 2022: Reading Period Opens | 2022: Deadline | 2021: Reading Period Opens | 2021: Deadline | 2020: Reading Period Opens | 2020: Deadline | |
3 | KERNPUNKT Press | No contest - open submissions | *Open now | Year-round | Year-round | 3/27/2023 | An independent publisher of literary works. We enjoy symbolism, non-traditional plots, unique characters, taboo, and experimentation. We like challenging. In short, we value art over entertainment. | Experimental work | Brandi George Grant Maierhofer Leah Angstman Daisuke Shen Vi Khi Nao Matthew Burnside, Aimee Parkison, NA Oparah, CA Blintzios William Lessard | n/a | Jesi Buell | http://www.kernpunktpress.com/submissions.html | http://www.kernpunktpress.com/submissions.html | $7 | 3-5 months | Over 50% | 48 pp. max for chapbooks | 50% net sales | 2 | perfect | Website, Other distributor | 200 | Yes | Yes | Hamilton, NY | *Year Round | *Year round | *Year Round | *Year round | |||||||||||
4 | Paper Swans Press | Pamphlet Competition | *Open now | 4/1/2023 | tba | 2/26/2023 | Paper Swans Press is an independent publisher of poetry and flash fiction, founded in 2014. We publish anthologies and individual pamphlets as well as online projects, such as our annual Advent Calendar. | Rosalind Easton Lydia Harris Elisabeth Sennitt Clough Stephen Daniels Allen Ashley Yvonne Baker Rebecca Bird Claire Booker | Carole Bromley (2022) Richard Skinner Carrie Etter | Sarah Miles Annie Brylewska- Cooper | https://paperswans.co.uk/poetry-pamphlet-prize/ | https://paperswans.co.uk/shop/ | £10 | yes | Up to 3 individual poems may have been published | 18-24 poems | £30 | 10 | website | UK | 4/1/2023 | tba | ||||||||||||||||||
5 | Radix Media | General full-length and chapbook submissions | *Open now | Year-round | Year-round | 3/27/2023 | We’re worker-owned, because we believe that workers should have control over their workplace conditions and have a voice in the decisions that shape their lives. We are proud to operate a democratic business with no hierarchy and no bosses, which is almost unheard of in the publishing industry. Radix Media publishes new ideas and fresh perspectives, prioritizing the voices of typically marginalized communities to get to the root of the human experience. The name Radix comes from the Latin root of the word radical, meaning to get to the root. | We are currently accepting manuscripts for Full-Length Poetry, Chapbooks, Novellas, and Visual Narratives, and manuscript excerpts for Novels, Essay Collections, and Memoirs. We especially love stories that intersect with progressive/radical politics and social justice. We are open to unagented as well as agented authors. | Zein El-Amine Elliott Colla & Ganzeer Alexander Pyles Aeryn Rudel germ lynn Hal Y. Zhang | n/a | Lantz Arroyo Nicholas Hurd Sarah Lopez | https://radixmedia.org/submissions/ | https://radixmedia.org/our-books/ | $0 (Optional: $5 tip jar) | Yes | 6-12 weeks (please wait until 12 to inquire) | Generally looking for unpublished work, unless otherwise noted in open calls for submission | complete poetry books, capbooks, novells, and visual narrative max 50 page excerpt from longer works | Saddle Stitch | Offset interior, letterpress cover. | Website | Yes | Readings (currently virtual) | Yes | Brooklyn, NY | *Year round | *Year round | *Year round | *Year round | |||||||||||
6 | Harvard Review | Harvard Review Chapbook Prize | Deadline passed | 10/13/2024 | 1/13/2025 | 3/27/2023 | From its beginnings, the journal has been committed to showcasing the work of emerging writers alongside established voices, or, as we like to think of it, publishing writers who will be famous next to writers who already are. | Entries must be previously unpublished and not under contract for publication. We recommend that you submit your work early in the submission window, as we can only accept a limited number of submissions. | [this is the first year] 2023--fiction 2024--nonfiction 2025--poetry | Lily King (2023, fiction) | Christina Thompson (editor) Major Jackson (poetry) | https://harvardreview.org/hr-chapbook-prize/ | https://secure.touchnet.net/C20832_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=16&SINGLESTORE=true | $20 A limited number of fee waivers are available | spring of the following year | $500 | website | invitation to read at the Houghton Library at Harvard University | 10/13/2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Container | Coming up | (TBA-- they aim to re-open for submissions in May 2023 | () | 3/27/2023 | Established to create books which aren’t, in the quotidian sense, books at all, Container creates objects which masquerade as parking meters, wallpaper, or crop seed sleeves. Working with text to determine alternate approaches to the traditional book form, we aim to free artists from being “boxed in” by forms, roles, abilities, or identities. | Text as/and object. See here for a huge rundown on their unique criteria + rubric | Colette Labouff Terri Witek Charles Theonia Dave Drayton | Douglas Luman Jenni B. Baker | n/a | http://acontainer.co/objects/ | 10 | While we prefer to receive texts that have not yet been published, we will consider previously published works on the condition that 1) you own the rights to the text, and 2) the form you’re proposing is substantially different from the original form in which your text was published. | n/a | Website; In-person shows/events | Varies by project | Artist statement on website | (TBA-- they aim to re-open for submissions in May 2023 | TBA | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | The Florida Review | Leiby Chapbook Award | Coming up | 9/1/2023 | 12/30/2023 | 4/16/2023 | The Florida Review publishes exciting new work from around the world from writers both emerging and established. We are not Florida-exclusive, though we acknowledge having a jungle mentality and a preference for grit, and we have provided and continue to offer a home for many Florida writers. We have been in more or less continuous semi-annual print publication since 1972 | Not poetry. Any combination of long or short stories, essays, or flash fiction or nonfiction–as well as graphic narrative–will be considered. | Melanie Bishop Jill Talbot Coyote Shook Lynne Nugent Michael Chin Rita Ciresi | n/a | Peter Kispert (editor) Chapbook Staff: Kass Fleisher, Janelle Garcia, Rochelle Hurt, Sean Ironman, Madi Brown, Nahal Suzanne Jamir, Jonathan Kosik | https://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/submit/chapbook-contest/ | https://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/store/chapbooks/ | $25 | yes | max 45 pp. | $1,000 | website | All entries are considered for potential excerpt publication in The Florida Review or Aquifer: The Florida Review Online | 9/1/2023 | 12/30/2023 | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | The Comstock Review | Coming up | 7/15/2023 | 10/31/2023 | 4/16/2023 | The Comstock Review publishes a print issue twice a year, with an open reading period from Jan 1 to Mar 31. | Raphael Kosek B. J. Buckley Jay Udall | Kathleen Bryce Niles Overton (2023) Peggy Sperber Flanders | Kathleen Bryce Niles | http://comstockreview.org/comstock-writers-group-chapbook-award-for-2014/ | https://comstockreview.submittable.com/submit | $30 | 25-34 pp. | $1,000 | 50 | website thought their submittable | NY | |||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Long Day Press | coming up | 9/1/2023 | 10/31/2023 | 4/23/2023 | A Chicago-based novella and chapbook publisher. Since 2015, we have published boundary-pushing work with an emphasis on emerging Midwestern writers. | All genres/forms: Novellas, poetry chapbooks, If your submission is an album, or a film, or a series of billboards, send it our way. | Jessica Anne Travis Dahlke Rebecca van Laer Bessie Flores Zaldívar Cody Lee | Joseph Demes Nathan Stormer | http://www.longdaypress.com/submissions/ | https://longdaypress.square.site/ | no fee | max 80,000 words | 10% royalty contract | 10 | website, through affiliate bookstores, and will be nationally and internationally distributed by Ingram | Authors will have a nation-wide media campaign and Long Day Press will assist with tour booking. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Fonograf Editions | BUNNY chapbook contest | Coming Up | 7/1/2023 | 8/15/2023 | 5/8/2023 | BUNNY is an imprint of the non-profit press/label Fonograf Editions. Fonograf Editions exists to take risks that push the boundaries of sound, text, and genre. We value the interdisciplinary, experimental, and unclassifiable, and we strive to bring to life works that resist, bend, and break expectations. We prioritize public access by making a component of each of our releases available for free to the public | Warren C. Longmire Zoe Tuck Bill Carty | Jeff Alessandrelli Adie B. Steckel | https://fonografeditions.com/submit/ | https://bunnypresse.org/catalog/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Tofu Ink Arts Press | Poetry Chapbook Contest | Deadline passed | 1/1/2023 | 12/31/2023 | 2/27/2023 | Tofu Ink Arts Press, a not for profit celebratory venture aims at publishing poems and other arts of un humdrum’d inclusive rhizomatic errant possibilities. | New, emerging, and established writers. We are committed to amplifying voices of the under-represented and marginalized. | RL Edmondson Vance, K.G. Ricci, Kimberly Jae, Clark Lunberry, Gordon Blitz Chelsie Nunn, Melinda R. Smith & Alexander Laurence | Brian Jacobs Joseph Lee | https://www.tofuink.com/chapbook-contest | https://www.tofuink.com/shop | $10 | "The pieces can be simultaneously published elsewhere but not in book form" | 20 pages exactly | 50/50 split of royalties | 10 | 1-3 winners published | perfect | Tofu Ink website and Amazon | "Tofu Ink will be authorized to promote the book and have the publishing rights credit" | 1/1/2023 | 12/31/2023 | |||||||||||||||||
13 | Kallisto Gaia Press | Saguaro Poetry Prize | Deadline passed | 9/15/2023 | 12/31/2023 | 2/27/2023 | Kallisto Gaia Press is a nonprofit literary organization promoting social and educational justice and equality through literary excellence | Dan Smart Cyrus Cassells Luke Rolfes Renee Rossi Partridge Boswell | editors | Tony Burnett Tate Lewis (poetry) | https://www.kallistogaiapress.org/saguaro-poetry-prize/ | https://www.kallistogaiapress.org/shop/ | $25 | Yes | 20-48 pp. | $1,200 | 20 | Website | 20 ARCs to be sent to reviewers and award sponsors chosen by the winner | yes | 9/15/2023 | 12/31/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
14 | Toad Press | Toad Press International Chapbook Series | Deadline passed | 10/15/2023 | 12/31/2023 | 2/2023 | Translations | The Toad Press International Chapbook Series publishes contemporary, exciting, beautiful, odd, and avant-garde chapbook-length translations of poetry and prose. | Joyce Mansour, trans. Molly Bendall; Katarzyna Szaulińska, trans. Mark Tardi; Seo Jung Hak, trans. Megan Sungyoon; Bronka Nowicka, trans.Katarzyna Szuster-Tardi. | Edited and published by Genevieve Kaplan & Sean Bernard | https://toadpress.blogspot.com/p/submission-information.html | https://veliz-books.square.site/#eRbucN | $0-12 (pay what you can) | Yes | results announced in Jan or Feb after open reading period | approximately 14-24 pages | Payment is in copies only | staple | minimalist | Website | 100 | No | 10/15/2023 | 12/31/2023 | ||||||||||||||||
15 | Host Publications | Chapbook Prize | Deadline passed | 2/1/2024 | 3/27/2023 | In 2018, Host Publications shifted its focus from international authors to authors based in the United States, and committed to creating a seat at the table for marginalized groups: primarily women, people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ writers. | Women writers, including those who identify as trans and non-binary | Bianca Alyssa Pérez mónica teresa ortiz Delfina Cardona Sequoia Maner lily someson Maryan Nagy Captan Stephanie Goehring Julie Howd Sophia Stid lily someson Claudia Delfina Cardona Julie Howd Stephanie Goehring mónica teresa ortiz | Joe Bratcher III Annar Veröld Claire Bowman Susan Lesak | https://hostpublications.submittable.com/submit | https://hostpublications.com/collections/host-publications-chapbook-prize-winners | May 15, 2021 (for Fall 2021 publication) | $1,000 | 25 | Website | Book launch at Malvern Books; Links to press on website; National distribution with energetic publicity and promotion by our dedicated staff. | Austin, TX | 2/1/2024 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Get Fresh Books Publishing | The Audre Lorde Award & The Dignidad Literaria Award | Deadline passed | 1/1/2023 | 9/1/2023 | 2/27/2023 | Get Fresh Books Publishing is a cooperative press and a 501c3 tax exempt organization, where our poets, editors, and the publisher create and pursue a vision for the writer's book. Our poets then bring their unique skills to the table to strengthen our mission. They do not charge submission fees or run contests. We publish talented authors whose work we respect and admire, and we are interested in publishing your work. Our chief concern is to provide opportunities for underrepresented voices in publishing, we reject all the "isms" and phobias suppressing our voices. No to racism, sexism, ageism, gender identity discrimination, homophobia, Islamophobia, and economic disenfranchisement. Get Fresh Books wants manuscripts from People of Color, LGBTQ+, people who are differently abled, people who are blind or deaf, and people living with mental illnesses. | Publishes poetry only. The Audre Lorde Award is for a book of poetry by a Black Queer/Trans, Woman identifying or Non-Binary poet of Afro-Caribbean, African-American or African heritage. The Dignidad Literaria Award is for a poetry collection by a poet of demonstrably African and/or Indigenous ancestry descended from a Spanish speaking country. | Ross Gay Aimee Nezhukumatathil Rosebud Ben-Oni Dr Grisel Acosta Darla Himeles | Roberto Carlos Garcia (president) | https://gfbpublishing.org/submission-guidelines | https://gfbpublishing.org/shop | 0 | Yes | 8-9 months | 70% | 50 page minimum 100 page maximum | Standard 10% royalty / no honorarium | 25 | Glued binding | Digital | Website; SPD | 250 | Yes | Comprehensive marketing plan | Yes | New Jersey | 1/1/2023 | 9/1/2023 | |||||||||||
17 | Newfound | The Anzaldúa Poetry Prize | Deadline passed | 4/15/2022 | 9/15/2023 | 2/2023 | The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize is awarded annually to a poet whose work explores how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding. | Special attention is given to poems that exhibit multiple vectors of thinking: artistic, theoretical, and social, which is to say, political. | Sarah Kersey Yunkyo Moon-Kim emet ezell Eric Morales-Franceschini Tracy Fuad Kaveh Bassiri | Natalie Diaz (2023) Donika Kelly (2022) Chen Chen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Carolina Ebeid | Debanjana Das Audrey Gidman (chapbook editor) | https://newfound.org/poetry-prize/ | https://newfound.org/catalog/ | $15 | Yes | December | Previously published work is acceptable | 15-30pp. | prize of $1,500 and a royalties contract (25% print/50% digital) | 25 | contract to sell the chapbook with Newfound | Saddle stitch | Website; Independent bookstores | Yes | Reviews of our chapbooks have appeared in Ploughshares, Rain Taxi, Cleaver Magazine, and elsewhere. | Yes | Austin, TX | 9/15/2023 | 4/15/2022 | |||||||||||
18 | Slipstream Press | Poetry Chapbook Contest | Deadline passed | 1/1/2023 | 12/1/2023 | 2/27/2023 | Founded in 1980, Slipstream features the work of both new and established writers. | We prefer contemporary urban themes—writing from the gut that is not afraid to bark or bite—and shy away from pastoral, religious, and rhyming verse. | Robert Okaji Jeanne-Marie Osterman Max Stephan Pam Davenport Robert L. Penick Alan Catlin | Robert Borgatti Livio Farallo Dan Sicoli | http://slipstreampress.org/guide.html#contest | http://slipstreampress.org/chaps.html | $20 | Yes | Spring | up to 40 pp. | $1,000 | 50 | Website | The winner is featured on the Slipstream web site and in all Slipstream catalogues, press releases and promotional materials. Additionally, the winner of the Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Contest is often featured on the Grants & Awards page of Poets & Writers Magazine. | Niagara Falls, New York | 1/1/2023 | 12/1/2023 | |||||||||||||||||
19 | Newfound | Emerging Poets Chapbook Series | Deadline passed | 4/15/2023 | 9/15/2023 | 3/2023 | EMERGING WRITERS (have not published full-length book) | Anna Morrison Hal Y. Zhang Shilpa Kamat Tracy Fuad Rodney Gomez | n/a | https://newfound.org/contribute-chapbooks/ | https://newfound.org/product-category/print/chapbooks/poetry/ | 0 | Royalties contract option (25% print/50% digital) | 25 | Saddle stitch | Website; Independent bookstores; | Yes | Reviews of our chapbooks have appeared in Ploughshares, Rain Taxi, Cleaver Magazine, and elsewhere. | Yes | Austin, TX | 4/15/2023 | 9/15/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
20 | Survision Books | James Tate Prize | Deadline passed | 6/1/2023 | 8/31/2023 | 2/27/2023 | Survision is an international biannual online poetry magazine established in Ireland in March 2017 as a platform for new Irish and international Surrealist and Irrealist poetry in English. | Surrealist and Irrealist poetry | Charles Borkhuis Noah Falck Matt McBride Aoife Mannix Tony Bailie Becki Hawkes Michael Zeferino Spring | Tony Kitt and Anatoly Kudryavitsky (editors) | Tony Kitt Anatoly Kudryavitsky | http://survisionmagazine.com/jamestateprize.htm | http://www.survisionmagazine.com/bookshop.htm | $18 | yes | 24-30 pp. | 1st Prize: €120 2nd Prize: €80 | 10 | Up to twelve finalists may be offered publication at SurVision Books' discretion. | website and in selected independent book sellers | Ireland | 6/1/2023 | 8/31/2023 | |||||||||||||||||
21 | Munster Literature Center | Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition | Deadline passed | 06/01/2023 | 08/31/2023 | 3/27/2023 | Munster Literature Centre is a non-profit arts organisation dedicated to the promotion and celebration of literature. Our publishing arm, Southword Editions, publishes Southword, an English-language biannual literary journal, Aneas, an Irish-language yearly literary journal, as well as poetry chapbooks, anthologies and translations. | The competition is open to new, emerging and established poets from any country | Milica Mijatović Tracy Gaughan Jamie O’Halloran Cian Ferriter Liz Houchin Greg Delanty Vicky Morris Felicity Sheehy | Patrick Cotter (artistic director) James O’Leary (publications officer) Kate Moore (operations officer) | https://munsterlit.ie/fool-for-poetry/ | https://munsterlit.ie/bookshop/ | €25 | Yes | late January / early February | all may have appeared in journals but not as a collection | 16-24 pp. | €1000 (with €500 for second place) | 25 | second place also published with 25 author copies and festival stay | website | Featured reading at the Cork International Poetry Festival (with three-night hotel stay and full board) | Yes | Cork, Ireland | 06/01/2023 | 08/31/2023 | ||||||||||||||
22 | Munster Lit | Chapbook Competition | Deadline passed | 6/1/2023 | 8/31/2023 | 2/26/2023 | Founded in 1993, the Munster Literature Centre (Ionad Litríochta an Deiscirt) is a non-profit arts organisation dedicated to the promotion and celebration of literature, especially that of Munster. | New and emerging writers | Milica Mijatović Tracy Gaughan Jamie O’Halloran Cian Ferriter Liz Houchin | "a panel of renowned poets" | Patrick Cotter James O’Leary Kate Moore | https://munsterlit.ie/fool-for-poetry/ | https://munsterlit.ie/bookshop/ | $25 | Any number of the individual poems may be published, but not as a collection | 16-24 pp. | €1000 for first prize €500 for second prize | 25 | website, Amazon, and in selected independent book shops | Featured reading at the Cork International Poetry Festeval (for first and second place winners) | Munster, Ireland | 6/1/2023 | 8/31/2023 | |||||||||||||||||
23 | Diode Editions | Chapbook Contest | Deadline passed | 4/15/2023 | 10/30/2023 | 4/16/2023 | Diode Editions is an independent press based in Doha, Qatar and Richmond, Virginia. Editor-in-Chief Patty Paine founded the press in 2012 as an offshoot of diode poetry journal. To date, the press has published 53 works of poetry and poetry-related nonfiction and hosts yearly book and chapbook contests. | We consider translations, welcome collaborations, and accepts simultaneous submissions. | Lee Ann Roripaugh Schneider K. Rancy Jane Satterfield Esther Ra Rosanna Oh | Patty Paine Law Alsobrook Zoë Donald | https://www.diodeeditions.com/chapbook-contest | https://www.diodeeditions.com/catalog | $18 | Yes | 25-50 pp. | $750 | 10 | Website | select poems from the winning manuscript will be published in diode poetry journal. | 4/15/2023 | 10/30/2023 | |||||||||||||||||||
24 | Cow Creek | Cow Creek Chapbook Prize | Deadline passed | 3/15/2023 | 5/15/2023 | 4/16/2023 | Brought to you by Pittsburg State University. We're open to all styles and subjects. As long as the poems challenge and capture the imagination, we want to see them | Sydney Vogl Casey Thayer Mel Ruth Sarah Sousa | Chad Abushanab Marcus Wicker Kayleb Rae Candrilli Chloe Honum | Chloe Hanson Taylor Johnson Spencer Young Winniebell Xinyu Zong | https://www.cowcreekchapbook.org/ | https://www.cowcreekchapbook.org/copy-of-love-for-the-gun | $15 | yes | October | 15-30 pp. | $1,000 | 25 | website and in limited bookstores | Pittsburg, PA | ||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Carrion Bloom Books | open submissions period | Deadline passed | 2/1/2023 | 5/4/2023 | 4/16/2023 | Carrion Bloom Books is a small press based in Salt Lake City. We're focused on creating handbound small-edition books of poetry, prose, translation, and art. | We admire work of all genres which might be described as: feminist, grotesque, ecologically resonant, too much, formally experimental, visually acoustic, radically embodied, transnational, or surreal (an incomplete list). We hope to promote work from marginalized communities and new or underrepresented writers. | Carleen Tibbetts Víctor Rodríguez Núñez leia penina wilson Hannah V Warren Natalia Rubanova Paul Cunningham | Rachel Zavecz Jace Brittain | https://www.carrionbloombooks.com/Submit-s/148.htm | https://www.carrionbloombooks.com/category-s/136.htm | no fee | yes | 40-ish pp. | "a percentage" of each physical book sold | website | 50-70 | Salt Lake City, UT | |||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Wolfson Press | Wolfson Press Chapbook Contest | Deadline passed | 10/6/2023 | 3/6/2023 | 2/27/2023 | Wolfson Press publishes books in the arts and humanities, including literary titles. We have a special interest in the region called Michiana, those counties of north-central Indiana and southern Michigan that are served by Indiana University South Bend. Regionally, the press has focused on the history of race relations and civil rights through the book series On Their Shoulders, edited by Emeritus Professor of History Les Lamon. | All poems must be original in English (no translations) | Steven Ostrowski John Surowiecki Renee Agatep Jim Daniels | Nancy Botkin (2023) | Michael Kouroubetes Jean DeWinter Shawn McAllister Kylie Weist Des Lord Bryce Delaney Walls | https://www.wolfsonpress.com/wolfson-press-2023-poetry-chapbook-competition/ | https://www.wolfsonpress.com/category/books/literature/ | $15 | Yes | If individual poems have been published, include an acknowledgments page listing previously published poems and the publications where they first appeared | 25-40 pp. | $1,000 | we may offer to publish a small number of select finalists in addition to the prize winner | website | Indiana University South Bend, Indiana | 10/6/2023 | 3/6/2023 | |||||||||||||||||
27 | Tupelo Press | Snowbound Chapbook Award | Deadline passed | 12/1/2023 | 3/31/2023 | 2/27/2023 | We’re drawn to technical virtuosity combined with abundant imagination; memorable, vivid imagery and strikingly musical approaches to language; willingness to take risks; and an ability to convey penetrating insights into human experience | This contest is open to all poets, regardless of prior publication history. Translations are not eligible for this prize, nor are previously self-published books. | Kristina Marie Darling Kelly Weber Emma Binder Matthew Gellman Kristin George Bagdanov Meredith Stricker Stelios Mormoris Chee Brossy Katy Didden Brandon Rushton | Traci Brimhall (2023) Hala Alyan (2022) Denise Duhamel (2021) | Kristina Marie Darling Cassandra Cleghorn (poetry) | https://www.tupelopress.org/snowbound-chapbook-award/ | https://www.tupelopress.org/shop/ | $25 | Yes | Late spring | Some poems but not all may be individually published | 20-36 pp. (suggested) | $1,000 | 25 | Website | Book launch, and national distribution with energetic publicity and promotion | North Adams, Massachusetts | 12/1/2023 | 3/31/2023 | |||||||||||||||
28 | Tupelo Press | Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Prize | Deadline passed | 8/31/2023 | 10/31/2023 | 2/27/2023 | What we look for is a blend of urgency of language, imagination, distinctiveness, and craft. What we produce and how we produce it — from design to printing to paper quality — honors the writing in books which boast the uniquely sensual look and feel of a Tupelo Press book. | This contest is open to all poets, regardless of prior publication history. Translations are not eligible for this prize, nor are previously self-published books. | Kristin George Bagdanov Meredith Stricker Stelios Mormoris Chee Brossy Katy Didden Brandon Rushton | Chen Chen (2022) Timothy Donnelly (2019) | Kristina Marie Darling (editor in chief) Cassandra Cleghorn (poetry editor) | https://www.tupelopress.org/sunken-garden-poetry-prize/ | https://www.tupelopress.org/shop/ | $25 | Yes | Winter | Some poems but not all may be individually published | 20-36 pp. (suggested) | $1,000 | 25 | Website | Book launch, and national distribution with energetic publicity and promotion | North Adams, Massachusetts | 8/31/2023 | 10/31/2023 | |||||||||||||||
29 | Radix Media | The Megaphone Prize | Deadline passed | 9/15/2023 | 11/15/2023 | 2/27/2023 | We’re worker-owned, because we believe that workers should have control over their workplace conditions and have a voice in the decisions that shape their lives. We are proud to operate a democratic business with no hierarchy and no bosses, which is almost unheard of in the publishing industry. Radix Media publishes new ideas and fresh perspectives, prioritizing the voices of typically marginalized communities to get to the root of the human experience. The name Radix comes from the Latin root of the word radical, meaning to get to the root. | 2023 accepting only ESSAYS (not poetry) the prize is open to personal essay collections by debut writers of color The Megaphone Prize is an annual contest from Radix Media dedicated to the discovery of timely, urgent, and interrogative collections from debut writers of color. | Ghinwa Jawhari JinJin Xu Nikki Cardona Ghinwa Jawhari JinJin Xu Elliott Colla & Ganzeer | Hanif Abdurraqib (2022) Aria Aber (2020) | Lantz Arroyo Nicholas Hurd Sarah Lopez | https://radixmedia.org/own-voices-chapbook-prize/ | https://radixmedia.org/our-books/ | $0-20 | Yes | The collection as a whole must be unpublished (but can include pieces that have been previously published) \ | 20-40 pages | $1,000 | 20 | Saddle Stitch | Offset interior, letterpress cover. | Website | Yes | Readings (currently virtual) | Yes | Brooklyn, NY | 9/15/2023 | 11/15/2023 | ||||||||||||
30 | Beloit Poetry Journal | The Chad Walsh Chapbook Series | Deadline passed | 10/1/2023 | 11/30/2023 | 3/25/2023 | The Chad Walsh Chapbook Series was established in 2018 with the support of Alison Walsh Sackett and her husband Paul in honor of Ms. Sackett's father, the poet Chad Walsh, a co-founder in 1950 of the Beloit Poetry Journal. | No translations or multi-author chapbooks | Amy Miller Katie Farris Victoria C. Flanagan Christine Gosnay Jacques J. Rancourt | Natasha Trethewey | Jessica Jacobs (chapbook editor) Rachel Contreni Flynn Kirun Kapur | https://www.bpj.org/submit/chad-walsh-chapbook-series-guidelines | https://www.bpj.org/shop | $20 A limited number of fee-free entries are available to poets for whom the reading fee presents a hardship. (Email us at bpj@bpj.org for details.) | Yes | late winter/spring | 20-35 pp. | $2,500 | 50 | Perfect; full color cover | Winning chapbook distributed to every BPJ subscriber and sold separately | 1,500 | Windham, ME | 10/1/2023 | 11/30/2023 | |||||||||||||||
31 | Kissing Dynamite | Kissing Dynamite Microchap Series | Deadline passed | 10/1/2023 | 10/31/2023 | 2/27/2023 | Welcome to our small press! We strive to bring the same charged poetry that colors our journal issues to your fingertips in print form. | Jared Beloff Emily Lake Hansen Airea Johnson Cai Rodrigues-Sherley M. A. Scott Jenny Wong Wale Ayinla Lannie Stabile Allegra Negro | Christine Taylor Shon Mapp Belinda Munyeza Morgan Ridgway Dia Roth | https://www.kissingdynamitepoetry.com/microchap-submission-guidelines.html | https://www.kissingdynamitepoetry.com/press.html | Pay what you can, if you can | Not specified | March 2024 | 15 pp. max, no minimum | $50 | 10 | two or more winners selected and published | Perfect, 4.5 x 6" | Covers "matte, neutral-toned" | Website | 50; additional runs possible | Totowa, New Jersey | 10/1/2023 | 10/31/2023 | |||||||||||||||
32 | Black Lawrence Press | Black River Chapbook Contest (also fall contest 9/01/2023-10/31/2023) | Deadline passed | 4/1/2023 | 5/31/2023 | 2/27/2023 | Black Lawrence Press is an independent publisher of contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We also publish the occasional translation from German. Founded in 2004 | The contest is open to new, emerging, and established writers | Mary Biddinger, Becca Klaver, SJ Sindu, José Angel Araguz, Lisa Dordal, R. Cathey Daniels, H.R. Webster, Adam McOmber, David E. Yee, Kristina Marie Darling, Kim Sousa, Jill Stukenberg, Gaia Rajan, Virgie Townsend, Raena Shirali, Christopher Locke, Lisa Hiton | 2022: Ruth Baumann Brittany Cavallaro Alan Chazaro Caleb Curtiss Rebecca Hazelton Charlotte Pence Matthew Raymond Nancy Reddy Sam Sax Philip Schaefer | Diane Goettel Lisa Fay Coutley (chapbook editor) | https://blacklawrencepress.com/submissions-and-contests/the-black-river-chapbook-competition/ | https://blacklawrencepress.com/book-category/chapbooks/ | $17 | Yes | Late August & late January | some poems but not "a significant portion" | 16-36 pp. | $500 | 10 | Perfect | distributed nationally through Small Press Distribution to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and various brick and mortar retailers. We also make our titles available through our website and at various conferences and book fairs | New York | 4/1/2023 | 5/31/2023 | |||||||||||||||
33 | Oversound | Chapbook Contest | Deadline passed | 3/1/2023 | 4/30/2023 | 2/27/2023 | Oversound is an annual print poetry journal published in Columbia, SC. | Translations are not eligible | Iva Moore Ethel Barja Cuyutupa Louise Akers Silvina López Medin Kanika Agrawal Monica Fambrough Lindsay Turner | Andrew Zawacki (2023) Sawako Nakayasu (2022) Timothy Donnelly (2021) Brandon Shimoda (2020) | Liz Countryman Samuel Amadon | https://www.oversoundpoetry.com/chapbook/ | https://www.oversoundpoetry.com/order/ | $18 | Yes | Ind. poems may be published, manuscript should not | 15-30 pp. | $1,000 & all entrants receive subscription | 50 | Website & Subscriptions | No | Excerpts | Columbia, SC | 3/1/2023 | 4/30/2023 | |||||||||||||||
34 | Two Sylvias Press | Chapbook Prize | Deadline passed | 2/1/2023 | 5/31/2023 | 3/27/2023 | Created with the belief that great writing is good for the world, Two Sylvias Press mixes modern technology, classic style, and literary intellect with an eco-friendly heart. We draw our inspiration from the poetic literary talent of Sylvia Plath and the editorial business sense of Sylvia Beach. Located in the Seattle area, Two Sylvias is an independent press which publishes the best-selling The Daily Poet and has created The Poet Tarot, featured in O, The Oprah Magazine. | Majda Gama Saúl Hernández Meg Griffitts Christopher Salerno Stella Wong Hiwot Adilow | Eduardo C. Corral (2023) Diane Seuss (2022)) Victoria Chang | Kelli Russell Agodon Annette Spaulding-Convy | http://www.twosylviaspress.com/chapbook-prize.html | https://www.twosylviaspress.com/booksproducts.html | $18 | yes | September 2023 | 17–24 pp of poetry (not including front and back matter) | $500 + a 1930s depression glass trophy | 20 | perfect, 6x9" | Not specified; published as print and ebook | Website | Yes | Kingston, WA | 2/1/2023 | 5/31/2023 | |||||||||||||||
35 | CutBank | Cutbank Chapbook Contest | Deadline passed | 1/15/2023 | 5/31/2023 | 2/2023 | Startling, compelling, and beautiful original work. We’re interested in both prose and poetry – and particularly work that straddles the lines between genres, in a fresh, powerful manuscript. Perhaps yours will overtake us quietly, gracefully defy genres, or satisfyingly subvert our expectations. Maybe it will punch us in the mouth page in and page out. CutBank has been Montana's foremost literary magazine, for forty plus years, founded in 1973 by the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana and helmed initially by favorite literary son William Kittredge | We’re interested in both prose and poetry – and particularly work that straddles the lines between genres, in a fresh, powerful manuscript. | Dorsey Craft Kathryn Merwin Eric LeMay Ashwini Bhasi Geula Geurts Natalie Tombasco Ian U Lockaby, Kevin Neal, Rochelle Jewel Shapiro, Michael Juliani, Terrance Owens | Cutbank editorial staff | Erin O’Regan White (editor-in-chief) | http://www.cutbankonline.org/genre-contests | http://www.cutbankonline.org/shop-1 | $20 | Yes | August | Ind. poems may be published, manuscript should not | 25-40 pp. | $1,000 | 25 | Two runners-up chosen for publication as well | Perfect | Website; Potentially--ind. bookstores | No | Yes | Missoula, MT | 1/15/2023 | 5/31/2023 | ||||||||||||
36 | YesYes Books | Vinyl Chapbook Contest | Deadline passed | 2/25/2023 | 6/30/2023 | 3/25/2023 | YesYes Books has been publishing provocative collections of poetry, fiction, and experimental art since 2011. We look for work that acknowledges and celebrates our passionate, complex, and boundless natures. | Open to poetry, prose, and mixed genre chapbook manuscripts. Collaborative manuscripts are eligible for submission | Jae Nichelle Liliana Valdez John Allen Taylor Aidan Forster Emily Vizzoo | chosen by: KMA Sullivan, YesYes Books Publisher, with help from some of the fantastic YesYes Books editorial staff | KMA Sullivan | https://www.yesyesbooks.com/submit | https://www.yesyesbooks.com/vinyl-45-chapbooks | $20 | Yes | September | 20-25 pp. | $500 & $250 for tour expenses | 25 per print run (50 total) | 2 finalist possibly published | website | 2 print runs of 200 copies | They send review copies if requested | Yes | Portland, OR | 2/25/2023 | 6/30/2023 | |||||||||||||
37 | The New Michigan Press | Diagram Chapbook Contest | Deadline passed | 4/28/2023 | 2/2023 | We recommend that your manuscript be as coherent--as much a project--as possible. Not to say everything needs to be thematic or narratively related, but most of our winning chapbooks have a feeling of aesthetic unity or resonance: we think chapbooks should make sense as chapbooks, and be more than the sums of their parts. Chapbook manuscripts do not necessarily have to be diagrammatic (though the diagrammers among us do enjoy those). | Interesting, lovely unpublished work (unpublished as a whole; individual pieces may be published already of course), prose or poetry or some combination or something between genres | Jed Munson Lytton Smith Blanche Brown Ashley Chambers Kell Connor Julia Madsen | Judged by staff readers and Ander Monson (editor) | Ander Monson (editor) | https://thediagram.com/contest.html#chapbookguidelines2021 | http://newmichiganpress.com/books.html | $24 | Yes | Ind. poems may be published, manuscript should not | 18-44pp. | $1,000 | 25 | finalist chapbooks also considered for publication (usually 3-6) | Perfect | Website & subscriptions; distributed by Baker & Taylor | We send out review copies, do occasional ads, and have a good track record of getting our chapbooks reviewed or promoted on websites like Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, Newpages, and in many literary journals. | Tuscon, AZ | 4/28/2023 | "late 2022" | |||||||||||||||
38 | Milk & Cake Press | Deadline passed | 2/1/2023 | 4/30/2023 | 2/27/2023 | Milk and Cake Press seeks to publish an eclectic collection of poems. We love language, the sounds it creates, and the power of it to name and shape. We welcome work from a diverse range of poets, including women, people of color, and those who identify as LGBTQIA. We will make inclusive decisions about the poets and poems we publish. Milk and Cake is a family-run, all-volunteer micro-press, with a DIY mentality: all editing, layout, design, distribution, promotion and marketing are done in-house. We are hands-on and collaborative in our approach to publishing, and will work with you closely to create the best book we can. | We are especially interested in manuscripts with attention to the sound of language. We also like experimental work, though we are open to virtually any kind of manuscript. (No light verse or limericks, please.) | Bill Abbott Joanna Thomas Sarah Nichols Yamini Pathak Susana H. Case | we make decisions in house (not a contest) | Kim Jacobs-Beck Dan Beck Miranda Scharf Jonathon Scharf Heather Phillips Jasmine Warner | https://milkandcakepress.com/submissions/ | https://milkandcakepress.com/shop/ | $10, can be waived by contacting kim@milkandcakepress.com | Yes | Typically announced in June | if it's not been published all in one place, it doesn't matter | 18-30-ish | 0 | 25 | usually accept 4-6 titles a year | Perfect bound if book exceeds 25 pages | POD | Website | 100; will print more if needed | Yes | Social media; AWP/other book fairs; Postcards; Press sheets; Five copies sent by publisher to reviewers | Yes | Hamilton, OH | 2/1/2023 | 4/30/2023 | ||||||||||
39 | Tusculum Review | 2022 Poetry Chapbook contest (each year seems to have one focus; 2023 is poetry) | Deadline passed | 8/1/2022 | 6/15/2023 | 2/2023 | We seek well-crafted writing that takes risks. | 2023-poetry; 2022–poetry; 2021–fiction | L. A. Hawbaker Stella Reed Jamie L. Smith Tanya Paperny Adam Day Alexis Ivy | Justin Phillip Reed (2023) Carmen Giménez Smith (2022) Amy Sturgis (2021) David Lazar (2020) Bhanu Kapil (2019) | Kelsey Trom Clay Matthews Mae Jones (chapbook editor) | https://ttr.tusculum.edu/contest/ | https://ttr.tusculum.edu/gifts/ | $20, including a subscription; addl. $15 for international orders | Yes | 20–30 pp (2022-2023); 2,000-6,5000 words (2021) | $1,000 | not specified | Subscriptions and back issues of magazine are available for purchase via check sent by mail. Chapbooks are not listed or shown but it seems may be ordered by mail as well. | Fulll chapbook text is printed in the Tusculum Review as well | Greeneville, TN | 6/15/2023 | 8/1/2022 | |||||||||||||||||
40 | Vallum Contemporary Poetry | Vallum Chapbook Award | Deadline passed | 1/3/2023 | 4/30/2023 | 2/2023 | Vallum Magazine, a biannual publication founded in 2000, is based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal, Canada) on unceded Kanien'kehá:ka territory. Vallum provies a forum for emerging artists to publish alongside more established figures, giving them exposure and confidence to continue with their artistic practices. As one of Canada's top poetry journals with an international focus, Vallum encourages dialogue between Quebec and the rest of Canada, allowing Canadian artists to exchange ideas with acclaimed and emerging artists from the United States, Britain, Ireland, Australia, India, and other countries around the world. Vallum publishes work that pushes boundaries and invites the exploration of different outlooks and perspectives. In addition to poetry, we also publish essays, interviews, book reviews, and visual art. | The editors at Vallum are committed to enriching and continuing the tradition of poetry in the present day. We welcome submissions that deepen our understanding of what poetry is and can be. We encourage Indigenous writers, writers of colour, gender non-conforming writers, differently abled writers, LGBTQ writers, writers with mental or physical illnesses, and writers who are otherwise affected by structural inequality to submit their work for consideration. | Jasmine Gui Emilie Lafleur Scott Cecchin George Elliott Clarke Bhanu Kapil Heather White Nicole Brossard Franz Wright | Joshua Auerbach Eleni (Helen) Zisimatos | Editor: Joshua Auerbach Poetry Editor: Eleni (Helen) Zisimatos | https://vallummag.com/guidelines-chapbook-award/ | https://vallummag.com/chapbooks/ | $25 Canada; $30 US and international. Reduced fee available. | Not specified | Ind. poems may be published, manuscript should not | 12-30pp. | $300 | Not specified | Social media; "selections from the chapbook will also appear in the print and digital magazine" | Yes | Montreal, QC, CAN | 1/3/2023 | 4/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||
41 | Inch | Deadline passed | 3/15/2023 | 4/15/2023 | 2/27/2023 | Inch is a quarterly journal focused on the miracles of compression. Each “issue” is a micro-chapbook featuring the work of a single author. We feature small collections of poetry, short fiction, or short creative nonfiction, with each chapbook focusing on a separate genre. We dedicate one issue per year to featuring the work of a North Carolina author. Published by Bull City Press. | North Carolina writers. Small collections of poetry, flash fiction, or nonfiction PLUS a collection in any genre by a North Carolina writer | Leila Chatti Grace MacNair Robin Sinclair Emma Bolden K-Ming Chang Halina Duraj Vievee Francis Roxane Gay Jenny George | Editor: Maria Isabelle Carlos Fiction Editor: John Shakespear Poetry Editor: Yamini Pathak Readers: Zinnia Bynum, Amanda Moore, Caitlin Thornbrugh | https://bullcitypress.com/submissions-top/submissions/ | https://bullcitypress.com/inch/issues/ | Yes | August | Maximum of 75 percent of work in mss. may be previously published | 10–16 pp. | 3/15/2023 | 4/15/2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Omnidawn Publishing | Chapbook Contest | Deadline passed | 5/1/2023 | 6/12/2023 | 2/27/2023 | Omnidawn Publishing seeks to support and expand our community of writers and readers through the work we choose to publish, which questions, in both form and content, the prevailing limits of convention. Our intent is to explore internal and external boundaries and push, with compassionate insight, the limits of risk. | This contest is open to all writers worldwide with no limitations on the amount of poetry a writer has published. | Mary Wilson Nicole Brossard Steven Seidenberg Brandan Griffin Martha Ronk | Lily Hoang Kamden Ishmael Hilliard J. D. Moyer David Armstrong | Rusty Morrison Ken Keegan Jason Bayani Laura Joakimson | http://omnidawn.com/contest/poetry-contests.htm | https://www.omnidawn.com/titles/ | $18 (limited number of free submissions available) | Yes | December | 20-48 pp. | $1,000 | Website | 1,500 | "publicity program" and large display ads are purchased announcing the winner and finalists in upcoming issues of Poets & Writers Magazine, American Poets Magazine and Rain Taxi Review of Books | Richmond, California | 5/1/2023 | 6/12/2023 | ||||||||||||||||
43 | Unicorn Press | Summer general reading period | Deadline passed | 5/1/2023 | 6/30/2023 | 2/2023 | Unicorn has produced poetry in every form: post cards to books: poems as individuals. Unicorn Press seeks to publish excellent works of poetry that are unlikely to find a home elsewhere. | The press focuses on handbound chapbooks and smaller cohesive sheaves of poetry. | Amber Adams Charlotte Matthews Dan Albergotti Chiyuma Elliott Michael Gaspeny Lynn Otto Julie Swarstad Johnson Nicole Stockburger | Dan Albergotti Julie Funderburk Okla Elliot | Andrew Saulters | http://www.unicorn-press.org/submit/index.html | http://www.unicorn-press.org/gallery/index.html | 3-4 months | Smyth-sewn binding | Website | Yes | Greensboro, NC | 5/1/2023 | 6/30/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Oxidant | Engine (not currently reading) | BoxSet Series | Deadline passed | 6/1/2021 | 3/25/2023 | The idea is to use the medium of the journal to release “collections” of work by a set of poets. Think of this as a collection of half-chaps, micro books, folio segments, sequences, long poems, what have you. As said, the goal here is to offer readers some of the pleasures of a “collection” in a more accessible form. We also mean “collection” very openly and submissions should not be limited to: sequences and series, narrative or formal unity, chaotic unity, or any form of thematic unity. In short, interpret "collection" as works best for you! | Jill Mceldowney Sophia Terazawa Emily Carr Matthew Schmidt Erin Slaughter | https://www.oxidantengine.com/submissions | https://www.oxidantengine.com/order | 0 | Yes | Ind. poems may be published, manuscript should not | 10-15pp. | 3 | Website; | No | US | 4/1/2021 | 6/1/2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Querencia Press | Deadline passed | 1/15/2023 | 3/1/2023 | 2/27/2023 | Querencia Press is an independent publisher, seeking to amplify overlooked voices. We want to create a safe space for writers and artists to share their stories. We are especially interested in work that may have been looked over in the past for shouting too loudly. We want you to shout. We want you to make us listen. | Emerging and established voices | Nat Raum Will Russo Giada Nizzoli Laura Lewis-Waters G.F. Sage Shilo Niziolek Alyson Tait S. Savannah Verdin TJ McGowan Tyler Hurula | editors | Emily Petrovich Stephanie Parent Meghan King | https://www.querenciapress.com/submit | https://www.querenciapress.com/books | $0 | Yes | approx 5 months | Accepts previously published work | min 20 pieces min 2,000 wprds | 6x9 softcover | website | Chicago IL, USA | 1/15/2023 | 3/1/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
46 | Poetry Society of America | Poetry Society Chapbook Fellowship | Deadline passed | 10/1/2022 | 12/31/2022 | 2/27/2022 | The PSA's Chapbook Program publishes each winner's work as a gorgeous chapbook, allowing new voices to reach new audiences. Open to any U.S. citizen or anyone currently living within the U. S. who has not published a full-length poetry collection. | Emerging writers (have not published full-length poetry collection) | Emily Lee Luan Nathan Xavier Osorio Margaret Ray Ethan Stebbins Dujie Tahat Darien Hsu Gee Isabella DeSendi Laura Cresté Laura Romeyn | Jennifer Chang Ishion Hutchinson Joshua Bennett (2020) Monica Youn (2020) | https://poetrysociety.org/awards/chapbook-fellowships/2021-chapbook-fellowship | https://poetrysociety.org/shop/chapbooks | $14 | 20-30pp. | $1,000 | Website | 500 | Yes | Excerpt | New York, NY | 10/1/2022 | 12/31/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
47 | Burnside Review | Burnside Review Chapbook Contest | Deadline passed | 5/1/2022 | 7/15/2022 | 2/27/2023 | A small-press publisher in Portland, Oregon. We publish full-length books of poetry, chapbooks, and a journal. | Nathaniel Rosenthalis Meghan Maguire Dahn Haines Whitacre Jonathan Andrew Pérez Rachel Abramowitz Carolina Cabrera Trevor Ketner Andrew McAlpine Robyn Art | Sid Miller (founder and editor) John Pursley III (contributing editor) | https://burnsidereview.org/chapbook-guidelines.html | https://burnsidereview.org/catalog.html | $15 | Yes | November | 18-24pp. | $200 | 10 | Website | Yes | Portland, OR | 5/1/2022 | 7/15/2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
48 | Button Poetry | Chapbook Contest | Deadline passed | 11/14/2022 | 1/9/2023 | 3/27/2023 | We seek to showcase the power and diversity of voices in our community. By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry’s audience, to expand its reach and develop a greater level of cultural appreciation for the art form. | Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie Sean Patrick Mulroy Nava Etshalom Kerrin McCadden Danez Smith Aaron Coleman | Hanif Abdurraqib (poetry editor) | https://buttonpoetry.com/chapbook-contest/ | https://buttonpoetry.com/shop/ | $15 | Yes | Manuscripts may contain previously published poems, so long as the manuscript itself is unpublished as a collection. if the manuscript has been self-published as a whole, that is also fine to submit. | 20-30 pp. | $500 | 50 | Website; | Yes | Feature videos of author performing, if applicable; they've also got a massively popular YouTube channel & a video contest in the summer | Minneapolis, MN | 1/9/2023 | 11/14/2022 | |||||||||||||||||
49 | Backbone Press | Chapbook competition | Deadline passed | 1/1/2023 | 4/2/2023 | 3/25/2023 | We are interested in language that is elegant and provocative; poetry that informs and engages us in broader cultural conversations. | Our mission is to foster and support writers of color and promote equity by means of diversity in literary publishing. | Tara Betts Aozora Brockman Aaron Counts Tyree Daye Austin Sanchez-Moran Faith Holsaert Chloe Martinez Susan Antolin Renée Owen Ceelste Doaks | Khalisa Rae (2023) Iain Haley Pollack (2021) | Crystal Simone Smith Adrienne Christian Jonathan Farmer Daniel Romo Shannon C. Ward | https://backbonepress.org/submissions/ | https://backbonepress.org/category/titles/ | $20 | Yes | 20-40 pp. | 250 plus a $250 travel stipend | $20 | No | 45-minute free book publicity consultation with Gold Leaf Literary; Reviews of winning chapbooks on a separate page of website | US | 1/1/2023 | 4/2/2023 | |||||||||||||||||
50 | Bull City Press (Bull City Press will not be sponsoring a 2023 competition. ) | Frost Place Chapbook Competition | Deadline passed | 10/1/2021 | 1/5/2022 | 3/25/2023 | The Frost Place, a nonprofit center for poetry and the arts at Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia, NH, in partnership with Bull City Press, has established a poetry chapbook fellowship. We invite submissions to the Tenth Annual Frost Place Chapbook Competition sponsored by Bull City Press. Our readers look for beautifully-crafted work, manuscripts that have a cohesive shape and feel like complete chapbooks. In summer 2022, the winner’s chapbook will be published by Bull City Press, and the winner will receive 10 complimentary copies (from a print run of 300), and a $250.00 stipend. The winner will also receive a full fellowship to attend the five-and-a-half-day Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place in August 2022, including room and board (a cash value of approximately $1,500.00), and will give a featured reading from the chapbook at the Seminar. In addition, the chapbook fellow will have the option to spend one week living and writing in The Frost Place House-Museum in September 2022 (peak leaf season in the White Mountains), at a time agreed upon by the fellow and The Frost Place.** | Open to any poet writing in English | Ae Hee Lee Christian Collier Armen Davoudian Cassandra J. Bruner | Rajiv Mohabir Tiana Clark | Maria Isabelle Carlos Rebecca Hazelton Matthew Olzmann Sam Martone | https://bullcitypress.com/submissions-top/frost-place-chapbook-competition/ | https://bullcitypress.com/product-category/books/ | $28 | Yes | May 2022 | Manuscripts should have a page count (poems only, not including title page, table of contents, acknowledgements, or other items) of 20 to 25 pages. | $250, fellowship to Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place, September 2022 residency at the Frost Place House-Museum | 10 | Perfect bound | Website; SPD | 300 | Yes | Durham, NC | 1/5/2022 | 10/1/2021 | ||||||||||||||
51 | Factory Hollow Press | Tomasz Salamun Chapbook Contest | Deadline passed | 3/15/2023 | 2/2023 | Established in 2005, the press has published and produced over 60 books, chapbooks, broadsides, and other special projects. In addition to making available writing that we believe in and love, we hope FHP encourages others to themselves publish work in small editions. | Poetry, translations, prose poetry and hybrid forms are acceptable | Suphil Lee Park Rachel Abramowitz Jake Bauer Jennifer Liberts Sophia Terazawa Nathan Hoks Zoe Ryder White | Hoa Nguyen (2023) Ilya Kaminsky (2022) Sawako Nakayasu Bianca Stone Emily Pettit | Dara Barrois/Dixon Emily Pettit | https://verse.submittable.com/submit | http://www.factoryhollowpress.com/catalog | $17/$13 for students | Yes | Individual pieces in the chapbook may have been published in print and/or online journals, but the chapbook itself must be previously unpublished. | 20-28pp. | $1000 and 1 month residency in Ljubljana, Slovenia | 10 | Perfect & Saddle stitch | Website; SPD | North Amherst, MA | 3/15/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
52 | Cinnamon Press | Poetry Pamphlet Award | Deadline passed | 2/1/2023 | 3/31/2023 | 2/26/2023 | Cinnamon Press Books is a small, independent publisher run from a hamlet in a forest in Brittany. We believe in publishing books we feel passionate about; small miracles from distinctive voices. Cinnamon Press books are not defined by genre but by their unique ability to be thought-provoking, say something innovative and go beyond the mainstream. And we also love finding ways to support a wide range of writers. | Open to all poets — beginners and established writers. Pamphlets co-authored by two poets are welcome. International entrants welcome. | Yvonne Baker E A Griffiths Alex Josephy Helen May Williams | Jan Fortune (editor) | Jan Fortune (editor) Adam Craig (design) Rowan Fortune | https://cinnamonpress.com/poetry-pamphlet-award-2023/ | https://cinnamonpress.com/books/ | £12 | late June-early July | some but not all | 15–25 poems of up to 50 lines each | none | 30 | unsually 2 winners, sometimes up to 4 | website | newsletter | Brittany, UK | 2/1/2023 | 3/31/2023 | |||||||||||||||
53 | Mslexia | Mslexia Women's Pamphlet Competition | Deadline passed | 1/1/2022 | 12/5/2022 | 2/27/2023 | The competition is open to collections of up to 20 poems, of up to 24 pages, by poets who have never had a full-length collection published. | Applicants must self-identify as women | Sammy Weaver | Imtiaz Dharker | https://mslexia.co.uk/competitions/pamphlet-poetry/womens-pamphlet-competition-2022/ | https://mslexia.co.uk/shop/ | £20 | Yes | May 2023 | max 24 pp. and 20 poems | £250 | published by Bloodaxe books, available online | UK | 1/1/2022 | 12/5/2022 | |||||||||||||||||||
54 | The Poetry Business | International Book and Pamphlet Competition | Deadline passed | 3/1/2023 | 2/26/2023 | The International Book & Pamphlet Competition was the first of its kind in Britain. Now in its 37th year, it has launched the careers of many well-established and successful poets. We publish books, pamphlets, audio and eBooks under the smith|doorstop imprint; edit a literary magazine, The North; and run Writing Days, masterclasses, residential courses, and a Writing School for published poets. We also run the annual Book & Pamphlet Competition. | Karen Downs-Barton Jon Miller Zoë Walkington Luke Samuel Yates | Hannah Lowe (2023) Jonathan Edwards Romalyn Ante | Ann Sansom Peter Sansom | https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/the-international-book-pamphlet-competition/ | https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product-category/books-pamphlets/ | £29; can apply for fee waiver | yes | published individually but not as a collection | 20 pp. | £700 each for two winners, £100 each for six runners up | website | publication in The North magazine, a reading at The Wordsworth Trust, and a place on a residential course at Moniack Mhor | Sheffield, UK | 3/1/2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||
55 | The Poetry Business | New Poets Prize | Deadline passed | 10/1/2022 | 3/1/2023 | 2/27/2023 | The New Poets Prize is a pamphlet competition for writers between the ages of 17 and 24 (inclusive). This prize runs alongside the renowned International Book & Pamphlet Competition organised by The Poetry Business, which has now been established for 36 years. | Writers 17-24 | Serena Alagappan Tom Branfoot Beth Davies Chloe Elliott | Kim Moore (2023) Anthony Anaxagorou (2022) | Ann Sansom Peter Sansom Suzannah Evans | https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/new-poets-prize/ | https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/bookshop/ | £8 | 12 pp. | winner gets masterclass with judge; spot at Arvon residential | UK | 3/1/2023 | 10/1/2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Seven Kitchens Press | Multiple Contests | Deadline passed | 1/1/2022 | 12/31/2022 | 2/27/2023 | Launched in the fall of 2007, Seven Kitchens Press has published over 165 chapbooks through seven series. Our goal has always been to publish the very best poetry and prose we can find in carefully-edited, hand-trimmed & hand-tied chapbooks | Read individual contest guidelines | Kelly McQuain Brad Richard Nora Hikari Allison Blevins Erica Trabold Harry Humes Deborah Burnham Lisa Sewell Katherine Bode-Lang Jeff WaltKelly McQuain | Steve Bellin-Oka Ron Mohring | Ron Mohring Steve Bellin-Oka Dan Vera Jeff Walt Karen Weyant | https://sevenkitchenspress.com/series-guidelines/ | https://sevenkitchenspress.com/our-authors/ | various | hand-trimmed and hand-tied | Website; | Yes | Publisher distributes 10 review copies to reviewers, libraries or other orgs at author's recommendation; Excerpts on website; Links to external reviews/news | US | 1/1/2022 | 12/31/2022 | |||||||||||||||||||
57 | Hedgehog Poetry Press | White Label Collection | Deadline passed | 1/1/2023 | 3/31/2023 | 4/16/2023 | At the Hedgehog Poetry Press we try our best to give as many opportunities for poets to be published as possible, with these largely being based on Competitions, which is why we have a wide variety of them over the course of the year. | First collections only: if you have previously self-published a collection, you are still invited to enter | Katie Proctor Lynn Valentine Kate Young Pratibha Castle Juliette van der Molen | Mark Davidson, Editor of The Hedgehog Poetry Press | Mark Davidson | https://www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/product/white-label-collection-onze-first-collection-pamphlet-competition-deadline-31st-march-2023/ | https://www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/product-category/for-sale/books/collections/ | $25 | April 15 | All work must be your own and must not have been previously published in a book or collection by a traditional publisher. Magazine published poems are acceptable as are previously self-published collections. | up to 20 poems, max 40 lines each | 100 | website | UK | ||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Thirty West Publishing House | Wavelengths Chapbook Contest | deadline passed | 1/30/2023 | 4/1/2023 | 4/16/2023 | The hand-made aspect of the chapbook has been paramount, augmenting the reading experience with both common and unique materials. We publish primarily poetry, literary fiction, and nonfiction manuscripts, and our imprint literary journals. We do not have a theme, but if something sticks with us, we will champion it. There is an innate feeling when you pick up a book and you feel the magnetism pull you in. Be it the subject matter, the design, the author's photo, or a mix of any other factors. Every book project comes with new responsibilities and new expectations. Our books become akin to snowflakes—no one is the same—and you are bound to value what we publish even more the longer you possess it. | Our preferences do not include straightforward genre fiction, erotica, and anything too niche or far-fetched. We are not a market for plays, screenwriting, academic articles, and art books. | Chelsea Stickle Sean Ennis Adam Gianforcaro Shannon McLeod | Josh Dale Chanel Martins Kat Giordano | https://thirtywest.submittable.com/submit | https://www.thirtywestph.com/catalog | $12 | yes | $750 | 10 | website | |||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Bloof Books | Not open | PAUSED | PAUSED | 3/25/2023—not currently reading chapbooks | Book publication with Bloof is collaborative—the author is intimately involved in decisions about design, various publicity strategies, etc. Our editorial process is also intimately collaborative, with the author being responsible for the final decisions about editorial suggestions coming from the press and the author’s chosen readers, which may or may not include other poets in the collective. Each poet retains ownership of the book, not just in the sense of copyright, but in the sense of its artistic integrity. Bloof aims to have the finished book reflect, as closely as possible, the author’s conception of it. The poets of the collective also actively participate in the publicity efforts of the press, for their own and other books. The collective poets sometimes do things like write press releases, book readings for themselves and other Bloof poets, teach each other’s books, do research into library acquisition opportunities, design posters or other promotional materials, help read submissions during our open reading periods, run book fair tables, give small press publishing talks, etc., according to their skills and availability. The poets are the press, in other words. | We are particularly interested in publishing women, but we are not exclusively a women’s press, and are also openly and actively interested in the work of poets of color, LGBTQ & nonbinary poets, and poets with disabilities. Our annual Open Reading Period is not exclusive in any way. We would like our growing list to reflect the diversity of our readership (and vice versa). | Sarah Rebecca Kersley Marisa Crawford & Morgan Parker Steven Karl Pattie McCarthy Nicole Steinberg Irene Vázquez Reagan Louise Wilson Shanna Compton Sharon Mesmer Jared White Jennifer Tamayo Mel Coyle | n/a | Shanna Compton | https://bloofbooks.com/about/submissions/ | https://bloofbooks.com/books/chapbooks/ | 0 | Yes | 3 months | Ind. poems may be published, manuscript should not | 25 pages max | Royalties | 20 | Hand sewn | Website; Subscription; Ingram; POD network; Some ind. bookstores | 100-150 | Review solicitiations Additionally, Bloof organizes periodic regional and national reading tours, as well as individual events. Wherever possible, Bloof pays as much of the expenses as we can, and this is discussed openly with all participants in the planning stages. When universities or other organizations offer speaking fees or honoraria, these are either paid directly to the poets or go into the tour expense fund (a.k.a. The Magic Envelope), which is shared equally by all the participating poets on the trip. (This is fun.) | Central NJ | () not currently reading chapbooks | () | ||||||||||||||
60 | Quarterly West | Open-genre chapbook contest | Not open | PAUSED | PAUSED | 2/27/2023 | QW is looking for writing that is: Exciting. Challenging. Risky. Unpredictable. And Different. | Open genre: Send us poetry, short-fiction, non-fiction, or any combination or hybridization therein | Mukethe Kawinzi Alyssandra Tobin Bejamin Gucciardi Katherine MacCue Penelope Pelizzon Alice Hall Jadyn Dewald | Luther Hughes (2022) | Jess Tanck Jasmine Khaliq Isaac Willis Allison Field Bell Aidan Linder | https://www.quarterlywest.com/chapbooks | https://quarterlywest.submittable.com/submit | 0 | Yes | 18-52pp. | $1,000 | 20 | Website; | Yes | Yes | Salt Lake City, UT | PAUSED | PAUSED | ||||||||||||||||
61 | River Glass Books | Not open | PAUSED | PAUSED | 2/27/2023 | River Glass Books is organized to foster and support a culture of sustainability in the arts, contribute to the protection and preservation of the world’s most crucial ecosystems, and advocate for the rights of the people whose lives and land are endangered by environmental threats—all while publishing compelling contemporary literature in fine limited edition chapbooks. We believe that just and equitable solutions to the climate crisis are only possible by undoing historic systems of inequity and dispossession, and that the current flux of the world presents, among deep and myriad tragedy, the opportunity for positive change. River Glass Books will seek to be a vehicle for this change | Táíwò Hassan Stella Lei Stephen Frech Jen Stewart Fueston Brian Jerrold Koester | Kimberly Dawn Stuart Marley Stuart | https://riverglassbooks.com/submit/ | https://riverglassbooks.com/shop/ | $0 | Yes | 20-30 pp. | $75 | 15 | 100-200 | New Orleans, Louisiana | PAUSED | PAUSED | |||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Bateau Press | BOOM Chapbook Contest | Not open | PAUSED | PAUSED | 2/27/2023 | Bateau Press publishes chapbooks and an annual magazine, churning out the highest quality, well-designed, environmentally minded package of literature known to man. | Dave Brennan Mia Ayumi Malhotra Ashley Yang-Thompson Michael Chang | https://bateaupress.submittable.com/submit | https://www.bateaupress.com/store | $14 | Yes | hand sewn | letterpress | website and everyone who submits to the contest gets a copy of the winning chapbook | Bar Harbor, ME | PAUSED | PAUSED | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Gold Line Press (Ricochet) | Not open | PAUSED | PAUSED | 2/27/2023 | Our mission is to publish innovative, non-traditional, trans-genre, and/or genre-less works that have a hard time finding homes in journals, competitions, and with other publishers. We have published manuscripts ranging from small chapbooks to full-length books. | Work that uses the chapbook length and form in innovative, emotionally resonant, and subversive ways | Alysse Kathleen McCanna FJ Bergmann Angie Sijun Lou Alisa Slaughter Karen Marron Katharine Haake Elisabeth Frost & Dianne Kornberg Danielle Pafunda Bradley Harrison Matthew Kirkpatrick | Courtney Faye Taylor (Poetry) Sarah Minor (Nonfiction) K-Ming Chang (Fiction). | Sara Fetherolf Bryan Byrdlong Thomas Renjilian David Haydon | https://goldlinepress.submittable.com/submit | https://dornsife.usc.edu/goldlinepress/ricochet-editions/ | $15 | yes | December | Ind. poems may be published, manuscript should not | 20-30pp. 7,500-15,000 words | $500 | 50 | perfect-bound | Website; SPD | Press sends out 30 copies on behalf of winners to respected literary venues for review. | Los Angeles, CA | PAUSED | PAUSED | |||||||||||||||
64 | Emrys Press (not currently reading) | Chapbook Prize | Not open | PAUSED | 7/30/2020 | 3/25/2023 "taking a pause to focus on out next steps" | Publishing bright, original, and sometimes edgy fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry | Poets writing in english | Richard Lyons Jacob Boyd Mary B. Moore Sarah Stickney | https://www.emrys.org/submissions | https://www.emrys.org/bookstore | $25 | Yes | Ind. poems may be published, manuscript should not | 24-28 pp. | $1,000 prize & 1-week residency at Rensing Center in Greenville, SC | Website | Yes (on the blog post announcing winner, not on actual book listing) | Greenville, SC | 5/15/2020 | 7/30/2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
65 | Center for Book Arts | Annual Chapbook Competition | Not open | PAUSED | PAUSED | 2/2023 | A major goal of our programs both in person and online, is to encourage and nurture the many perspectives, experiences, and processes that artists bring to the space; cultivating a myriad of practices within the book arts, tying in our varied and collective histories outside of the dominant canon. | Katerina I. Ramos-Jordán Miriam Bird Greenberg Luisa A. Igloria Kimberly Kruge Emily Carlson | Simone White (2021) Raquel Salas Rivera (2020) Edwin Torres (2019) Juan Filipe Herrera (2017) | https://centerforbookarts.submittable.com/submit/142020/poetry-chapbook-contest | https://centerforbookarts.org/book-shop | $30 | Yes | May 2023 | 1-21pp. or 1-450 lines | $500 cash and $500 reading honorarium; plus a week long stay at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York | 10 | Hand Sewn | Letterpress | Website | 100 | Readings | New York, NY | PAUSED | PAUSED | |||||||||||||||
66 | Greying Ghost | n/a | Not open | PAUSED | PAUSED | 2/27/2023 | The mission has and will continue to be to pour blood, sweat, and tears into the work of dedicated authors who titillate and wrench our guts. | Poetry, essays, film theory, music theory, cultural analysis, punk history, offbeat short fiction, art history, literary translations, black and white xerox art, black and white collage art, black and white photography, architectural drawings, urban design, graphic design, or anything you have that seems like maybe it’s too weird to ever see the light of day. | Naomi Washer Oscar Mardell Andrew Zawacki Ryan Schulte Emily Martin | n/a | http://greyingghost.com/submit (email) | https://greyingghost.bigcartel.com/ | $0 (requested: buy a chapbook to support the work) | Yes | 4-6 weeks (all submissions) | 20-30pp. | 0 | 25% of the initial print run for free | Saddle Stitch | Letterpress & inkjet | Website; | 100 | Excerpts | Boston, MA | PAUSED | PAUSED | ||||||||||||||
67 | Sibling Rivalry Press (not currently reading) | Not open | PAUSED | PAUSED | 3/27/2023—Most recent reading period opened 3/1/19 | Inspired by Adrienne Rich quote, "There's a lot of what I would call comfortable poetry around. But then there is all this other stuff going on--which is wilder, which is bristling; it's juicier, it's everythign that you would want. And it's not comfortable. That's the kind of poetry that interests me--a field of energy. It's intellectual an dmoral and political and sexual and sensual--all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture." | James J. Siegel Jubi Arriola-Headley Caroline Earleywine Ocean Vuong Julie E. Bloemeke | https://www.siblingrivalrypress.com/submissions | https://siblingrivalrypress.bigcartel.com/ | Website; Ingram | Yes - on back cover and website | Little Rock, AR | (on hiatus for 2020--Previously, 3/1/19) | (on hiatus) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Temz Review 845 Press | Not open | PAUSED | PAUSED | 2/27/2023 | We are looking for innovative prose and poetry, and work that is both, or maybe neither. That thing you have tucked away in a drawer because you aren't sure what it is or where to send it: try us! | Emerging + Established | MLA Chernoff Kevin Spenst Sydeney Hegele Andrew French Kathy mak Jeff Parent Archana Sridhar Obinna Udenwe | n/a | Aaron Schneider Sydney Hegele (fiction editor) | https://www.thetemzreview.com/845-press.html | https://www.thetemzreview.com/catalogue.html | 20-45 pp. | Perfect | Website | 60 | Yes | London, ONT, CAN | PAUSED | PAUSED | ||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Rescue Press | Flare Editions | Not open | PAUSED | PAUSED | 3/25/2023 -- not currently reading chapbooks | Publisher of chaotic and investigative work / We publish work by activists, artists, craftsmen, list-makers, philosophers, poets, scientists, writers, and creative thinkers of all kinds. | Established writers featuring a dynamic flight of their current thinking in the form of miscellany, marginalia, art-based adventures, un-gathered works, one-offs, genre-free gestures, impassioned experiments, previews, and more. | Sara Deniz Akant Adrienne Raphel Dot Devota Marc Rahe Sarah Minor Erik Anderson Jonathan Blum Stella Corso Melissa Dickey Lauren Haldeman | Daniel Khalastchi Caryl Pagel Sevy Perez Alyssa Perry | https://www.rescuepress.co/news/2019/8/4/rescue-press-presents-flare-editions-and-da-powells-atlas-t | https://www.rescuepress.co/ | Website | 250 | Yes, website | Interviews with authors on website; publicize authors' appearances at reading series | () not currently reading chapbooks | () | ||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Kenning Editions | Not open | PAUSED | () | 3/27/2023—"Not reading unsolicited submissions at this time" | seeks to represent non-hierarchically three generations of writers working under radical modernist impulses; to challenge them to publish under the rubric of “progressive social discourse,” in exploration of Williams’ statement regarding finding (or not) “the news” in poems, “men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there”; and to transgress geographic and linguistic boundaries. | We are interested in poetry, poetics, art, drama, and hybrid genre literary and critical writing that is experimental in the fullest sense: formally daring and close to lived experience. | Trisha Low Cassandra Troyan Carla Harryman Brandon Brown Miyó Vestrini Hannah Weiner | Patrick Durgin | http://www.kenningeditions.com/product-category/poetry/ | Website; SPD | Yes | Sample pdf download | Berkeley, CA | PAUSED ("not reading unsolicited submissions at this time") | () | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Dream Pop Press | Not open | PAUSED | () | 3/27/2023 no chapbooks published since 2019—online magazine is still open for year-round submission | Dream Pop is comprised of Dream Pop Journal, a biannual online literary journal, and Dream Pop Press, its small press arm that published its first set of chapbooks in Fall of 2019. Dream Pop seeks to make space for non-narrative, linguistically inventive writing. We are interested in lyric memoirists, cross-genre experimenters, fearless inventors, and poets who dream in made-up languages. | We welcome submissions from marginalized voices, and we are especially interested in publishing work from emerging writers working in experimental, non-narrative forms. | Andrew Sargus Klein Alexa Doran Elizabeth Clark Wessel Mary Rose Manspeaker Kolby Harvey L. Reeman B'ellana Joxanna KT Herr Paul Bisagni | Isobel O’Hare Carleen Tibbetts Kenning JP García Heidi Reszies | https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/dream-pop-journal-A1OXx | https://www.dreampoppress.net/shop/ | Yes | Website | Yes | US | PAUSED (one series of chapbooks published in 2019 / However, online magazine is open for year-round submission) | () | |||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Templer Poetry | iota Shot Pamphlet awards | Not open | PAUSED | PAUSED | 2/27/2023 -- paused since 2021 | Templar is an independent publisher originally founded in Scotland in 2005 and based in Derbyshire. Templar publishes poetry and fiction. Our list, which is approaching one hundred and fifty titles, features outstanding poets and poetry whose work we publish in paperback and hardback editions. | Matt Haw Nora Hughes Kerrie Hardie Nigel Jarrett | https://templarpoetry.com/pages/submissions-and-awards | https://templarpoetry.com/collections/templar-pamphlets | website | author reading | Derbyshire, UK | PAUSED | PAUSED (since 2021) | PAUSED | PAUSED (since 2021) | PAUSED | PAUSED | |||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Palette Poetry | not currently reading chapbooks | Not open | PAUSED | () | 3/30/2023 They accept submissions of 1-3 poems but not chapbooks | Our mission is to create a nourishing and brave space for poetic voices, whether new, emerging, or established, especially those that often go unheard or unrecognized. Our goal is to recognize and publish the most innovative and exciting poetry we can. | Zuleyha Ozturk Lasky Samia Saliba William Fargason Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad Alyssa Froehling | n/a | Sarah Ghazal Ali Ben Bartu (associate editor) | submissions: https://www.palettepoetry.com/submit/ | https://www.palettepoetry.com/poetry/ | () | () | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | DoubleCross Press (not currently reading) | Bound Together Chapbook Series | NOT OPEN | () | 3/15/20 | 3/25/2023 | Each book will be a dos-à-dos, two books that share a back cover. Two writers, two manuscripts, one binding. We are interested in work that is thoughtful and politically prescient and/ or formally adventurous. We like to be surprised, made to laugh, enraged, disturbed, informed, engaged. Most of what we publish falls loosely under the genre umbrella of “poetry,” but we consider that umbrella as a large one, which shelters many approaches. | Only send manuscripts if you are happy to be matched up and to share your book with another writer. | Sherese Francis Edwin Torres Daniel Owen Jennifer Soong Caitlin Tella Jacob Kahn Zoe Tuck Emily Hunerwadel Marcy Rae Henry Brenda Iijima & Annie Won Victoria Cóccaro (tr. Rebekah Smith) Lindsay Turner | MC Hyland Anna Gurton -Wachter Jeff Peterson | https://mc-hyland.squarespace.com/open-reading-period | http://www.doublecrosspress.com/completecatalog | 0 | Yes | May | max: 25pp. | Saddle stitch | Website | Brooklyn, NY | 2/1/2020 | 3/15/2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
75 | MAP Literary | Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award | NOT OPEN | () | () | 3/27/2023 still running contasts they just do not list dates | Founded in 2012, Map Literary is dedicated to celebrating quality works of new literature. Rather than aligning with any one aesthetic, we aspire to promote the finest provocative writing of our time, publishing semiannual issues of original fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in online format, with occasional letterpress print supplements. We are also interested in advancing works of art and electronic media, especially collage. | Fiona Lu Pete Stevens Greg Glazner Wendy Oleson | Dennis Hinrichsen (2022) | John Parras David Borkowski Judith Broome Christopher Salerno Howard Steng | http://www.mapliterary.org/rachel-wetzsteon-chapbook-award.html | http://www.mapliterary.org/poetry.html | $0 before 7/31 $25 7/31-9/30 | approx. 30 pp. | $1,010 | 25 | chapbooks sold on amazon | TBA | TBA | |||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Ghost Proposal | Ghost Proposal Chapbook Contest | NOT OPEN | () | () | 3/27/2023 | At Ghost Proposal, we’re into writing that is aware of its own topography. We like work that engages with thought process. We think of writing as “a letter from a stranger that you can’t bear to throw away. It haunts you. It strengthens you.” (Mary Oliver). We want to publish your strange objects; the whispers sitting in between your shoulder blades. | We seek cohesive manuscripts that deal in hybrid, cross-, multi-, and post-genre approaches. We are interested specifically in project-based work; while pieces within the manuscript may be disparate, they should resonate as a whole. | Lindsey Webb Alex Cuff Nora Claire Miller Amy Lipman Toby Altman | https://ghostproposal.com/submissions | https://ghostproposal.com/store | $0-20 | Yes | 16-44pp. | 25 | Website; | 100 | Excerpt | US | (currently closed to submissions) | () | |||||||||||||||||||
77 | Fourteen Poems | pamphlet submissions | NOT OPEN | () | () | 2/26/2023 | Each issue, we bring you 14 of the most exciting LGBTQ+ poems around! | LGBTQ+ authors and topics | Seán Hewitt Holly Moberley Lady Red Ego Sam Ross Spencer Wood Rupinder Kaur Zara Meadows | https://www.fourteenpoems.com/submit | https://www.fourteenpoems.com/shop | $0 | max 40 pp. | website and physical bookstores with whom the press has a relationship | UK | tba | tba | |||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Platypus Press (not currently reacing submissions) | Platypus Press chapbook award | NOT OPEN | () | 8/31/2020 | 3/25/2023 | We were honoured to be featured in Entropy’s Best of 2017: Presses, Magazines, Publishers & Journals list (alongside wildness), as well as being featured in Poets & Writers’ Small Press Points. We have also answered questions on the history (and future) of the press at Entropy and Poetry School. | Tanya Holtland Carlos Andrés Gómez Angela Gabrielle Fabunan Mary Kovaleski Byrnes Richard Georges | https://platypuspress.co.uk/submit | https://platypuspress.co.uk/books | [1/3 unpublished] | 0 | Website; SPD; Gardners; Some retail locations, depending on work | Yes on website; 1 on front cover | Links to full reviews if available | UK | 6/1/2020 | 8/31/2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Meekling Press (not currently reading submissions) | NOT OPEN | () | () | 3/25/2023 | We work in collaboration with our authors throughout the design and production process, much more closely than a traditional press would do. We are not so interested in boundaries of genre, or in restrictions of length. We are as interested in publishing a single sentence as something like a novel. What is more important is to find that sentence or that novel (etc) its most wonderful, thoughtfully-created nest. | We’re looking for book-length manuscripts for our paperback series. Send us your prose / poetry / hybrid work, or your work that plays with or abandons genre. | Carrie Olivia Adams Kate Wyer Willy Smart Marream Krollos Smeyer | https://www.meeklingpress.com/submissions/ | https://meeklingpress.square.site/ | Perfect; Saddle stitch | Website | Yes | Chicago, IL | () | () | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Perennial Press | NOT OPEN | () | () | 3/25/2023 | Perennial Press archives truths through fiction, art and poetry. We are committed to highlighting and uplifting voices & perspectives that have traditionally been underrepresented in literature. We center narratives of womxn, people of color, and queer folks. Our published works explore trauma and resilience in our histories, and visions of more just futures. | We center narratives of womxn, people of color, and queer folks. Our published works explore trauma and resilience in our histories, and visions of more just futures. All works must be inclusive, anti-racist, anti-sexist, and non-discriminatory. | Kwame Sound Daniels Keely Shinners Brandi Spering Zubaida Bello Marinna Benzon Abby Bland | n/a | Madi Giovina Tiffany Niles Adesina Brown Jaiden Dokken | https://www.perennial-press.com/submissions | https://www.perennial-press.com/store?utm_source=submittable | Yes | max 48 pp. | distribution to independent bookstores | Publicity through in-person events like book fairs and zine fests | TBA | TBA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Magma Poetry | Pamphlet Competition | NOT OPEN | () | () | 3/27/2023 | Inaugural pamphlet competition in 2018; opened again in 2020. Some pointers that might help are to check that the title captures the imagination and the ear; that your pamphlet opens with a strong poem; that there is some sense of overall coherence or tone – this doesn’t mean that all the poems have to be on the same theme, but a guiding principle reveals a poet in control of their work. How do the poems look on the page? Are there a few ‘fillers’ in the middle that could be removed and be replaced by stronger work? Do any poems outstay their welcome? What journey has your reader gone on by the end? | Asim Khan Alice Willitts Alexa Winik | Alycia Pirmohamed Mary Jean Chan | https://magmapoetry.com/pamphlet-competition/ | https://magmapoetry.com/publications_cat/pamphlets/ | Yes | shortlist poets have poems published in journal or on website | winner gets pamplet published and launch reading, shortlist have poems published in journal or on website | launch reading | 1/1/2022 | 1/8/2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Condensery: | NOT OPEN | () | () | 3/27/2023 | CONDENSERY: is a micropress specializing in limited-edition poetry chapbooks. It was founded in 2020 by Jan Verberkmoes and Andrew Dally, two poets with an affinity for the impractical. Guided by a foggy but unfaltering conviction that the distilled language of poetry is best experienced through a handcrafted object, we choose to invest in the slow, deliberate methods of letterpress printing and hand-binding. We print our chapbooks in Spartanburg, South Carolina and Denver, Colorado. All type is hand-set, all books bound by hand. | Melissa Ginsburg Abraham Smith | Jan Verberkmoes Andrew Dally | Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/CondenseryPress | https://www.condenserypress.com/products | (not specified) | Hand bound; pamphlet stitch | Letterpress printed with hand-set type | Website | 75 | Spartanburg, SC and Denver, CO | (None listed) | () | ||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | The Emma Press | NOT OPEN | () | () | 4/16/2023 | We publish poetry pamphlets, fiction chapbooks, short essay collections, illustrated poetry books, and books for children. Across all these series, we have a growing list of translations which includes titles from Latvia, Estonia, Indonesia, Spain and the Netherlands. | We have a ‘no agents’ policy. We see The Emma Press as a place where future stars can gain a platform that enables them to get an agent, or for more established writers to take a sidestep on a side project. We accept submissions from anywhere in the world so long as the work is written in or translated into English. | Toby Buckley Joanna Ingham Pamela Crowe Jack Houston Valerie Bence | Editors | Sara O’Connor Jonathan Todd Paul Marr Rakhshan Rizwan | https://theemmapress.com/about/submissions/ | https://theemmapress.com/product-category/poetry/pamphlets/ | £0-20 (you choose and it does not affect your chances) | within 6 months | max 23 pages, max 30 lines per page | £50 | website | UK | ||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Against the Grain Poetry | NOT OPEN | tba | tba | 4/23/2023 | An innovative small independent poetry press dedicated to publishing challenging, well-crafted poetry from poets in the UK and Ireland. Our books and pamphlets are beautiful, starkly-designed, with high production values and an edgy appeal. | Joolz sparkes luciana francis Sarah Mnatzaganian Joanna Nissel Eleanor Page Imogen Downes | n/a | Abegail Morley Karen Dennison Jessica Mookherjee | https://againstthegrainpoetrypress.wordpress.com/submissions/ | https://againstthegrainpoetrypress.wordpress.com/shop/ | no fee | yes | max 30 pp. | website | UK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Pamenar Press | NOT OPEN | () | () | 4/23/2023 not currently accepting manuscript submissions | An independent publisher producing books of poetry, hybrid and critical writing forms which are cross-cultural and multilingual | Ellen Dillon David Grundy Vincent Broqua Cole Swensen Susan Gevirtz James Davies | Kaveh Bassir Hamed Jaberha Mine Kaplangi Ghazal Mosadeq Hajar Mahfoodh | https://www.pamenarpress.com/submissions | https://www.pamenarpress.com/shop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Live Canon Poetry | Poetry Pamphlet Competition | NOT OPEN | () | () | 2/26/2023 | We publish anthologies, debuts and collections. Our ensemble perform poetry at theatres, festivals and events, and record poetry for radio, digital projects and interdisciplinary collaborations. We work with other art forms to create installations, interventions, theatre productions and experiences. | Josephine Corcoran Isabella Mead Matt Bryden | https://www.livecanon.co.uk/competitions-and-opportunities/pamphlet-competition | https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store | UK | tba | tba | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Magic Helicopter Press | not currently reading chapbooks | NOT OPEN | () | () | 3/25/2023 | We publish across platforms, mediums, and "the universe." Our paper books are collectible art items, not unlike Dale Earnhardt commemorative plates. Our e-books are experiences aware of their digital space. We also publish experimental multimedia projects: poetry videos and poetry video games. But we call them all books. We are literature with feet—for open mics and reading tours—and fingers—for online workshops and collaborative projects. But we call it all live. We are literature with a passiflora caerulea for a rotor. We land on your head. | Mary Miller Jimmy Chen Jack Christian Daniel Bailey Evelyn Hampton | Mike Young Rebekah Hewitt | n/a | https://magichelicopterpress.com/books.htm | 0 | Yes | saddle stitch & perfect | Website; SPD; Ind. bookstores nationwide | 75 | links to reviews & excerpts on book's web page | Ashland, OR | () | () | ||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Albion Books | Query only | Query only | 3/27/2023 | Founded in 2008, Albion Books is a one-man micropress specializing in limited-edition chapbooks, broadsides, and print ephemera as well as in hand-bound hardcover and softcover books. Though each edition is kept small to enable production by one person, the final rule of the press is meant to encourage and sustain gift economy within the poetry community: at least 35% of each edition must be given away or bartered. | Victoria Chang Hanae Jonas Christina Davis Ryan Eckes Aditi Machado Rick Barot Tsering Wangmo Dhompa | Rob McLennan | n/a | https://albionbooks.net/publications/ | 0 | 20 | Saddle stitch | letterpress | Website; | 165 | San Francisco, CA | *Query only | |||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Deep Vellum | Query only | Query only | 3/27/2023 -- (submit through form on website) | goal is to bring books, writers, and translators to Dallas by publishing the world’s best and most diverse literature from around the world and to create a community space for all things literary. | All accepted but press has a focus on translation | Carmen Boullosa Peter Bush Claudia Ulloa Donoso Lily Meyer Mariana Spada Robin Myers Peter Dimock Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi Sam Allingham Michele Audin Bae Suah Eduardo Berti | n/a | Sebastián Páramo David Shook Jill Meyers Serena Reiser | https://www.deepvellum.org/submissions | https://store.deepvellum.org/collections/all-inventory/deep-vellum | Website | Yes | media / marketing director on the team | Dallas, TX | *Query only (submit through form on website) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | St. Brigid Press—❤️! | Query or invitation only | Query only | () | () | 3/27/2023 No contests or submissions guidelines listed on website | Letterpress printer & publisher in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Dedicated to learning, practicing, and passing-on the art and craft of letterpress printing with hand-set type, hand-carved illustrations, foot-powered presses, and hand-sewn books. | Anna Lena Philips Bell Michael Delp Jeff Schwaner Emily Hancock (proprietor) | Emily Hancock | https://www.stbrigidpress.net/books | Saddle stitch | Letterpress | Website | Yes, website | Launch party | Afton, VA | () | () | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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