The Diagram – Chapbook Contest
New Michigan
Prize: $1,000 / publication / 25 copies.
18-44 pages.
Rolling deadlines.
$16 to enter.
- Some beautiful chapbooks, they do about 4 a year, and have a subscription where you can get all of the chapbooks for the year.
- Also have a single-poem based submission magazine, but the website is a little weird.
- Authors do have some control over the cover design / book layout.
- A good track record of getting their chapbooks reviewed or promoted on websites like Verse Daily and Poetry Daily.
- They have about 15 finalists, and publish 2-3 of those, although there is only 1 winner.
- They have a good description of the quality of their chapbooks here: http://www.thediagram.com/nmp/chapbooks.html
- In 2005, Rachel Moritz’s The Winchester Monologue was the winner.
- Parts of website are a bit out-dated.
Prize: $500 / publication / 25 copies.
24 pages —including title page, dedication, epigraph, brief bio, and acknowledgments.
April 15th Deadline
$15 fee (was $12 in previous years).
- There is a special judge who is anonymous until the winner is chosen.
- Letterpress printed.
- Most are staple-bound.
- Online submission based.
- Non-profit, Greensboro , NC
- 1 published a year, have only been around for 3 years.
- All winners have previous publications (not officially stipulated).
Omnidawn Chapbook Poetry Prize
Prize: $1,000 / publication / 100 copies.
Begins around January, typically ends in March (was extended for 2011).
20-40 pages.
$15 fee.
- Display advertising for the winning author and chapbook in American Poetry Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and other publications.
- Publishes the following Fall of the Contest.
- Both post an online submissions.
- Accepts simultaneous submissions.
- Accepts multiple Submissions.
- Guest judged.
- 2nd year for contest, although press has been around much longer.
Yale Series of Younger Poets
Poets under 40.
October – November submission period.
48-64 numbered pages.
$15 fee.
- No previous book-length publications (A chapbook with 300 or fewer copies is still eligible.)
- Published: Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, James Tate.
- Since 1919, publish every year.
- Judged by Carl Phillips.
Note: not a chapbook prize, but eligibility is not limited by having published a chapbook.
Anabiosis Press Chapbook Award
Prize: $1,000 / 50 copies.
16-20 pages.
Snail Mail Only.
$12 fee.
June 30th 2011 deadline.
- Going since 2005, 1 per year.
- No images on the website of the chapbooks.
- Free copy of winning chapbook with entry.
Wordrunner Electronic Chapbooks
Online only.
April 1st - May 31st submission period.
15-24 poems, they like short poems.
No reading fee.
Prize: publication and $65.
Only been around since 2008, and only started publishing poetry in 2009.
Layout is unique and appealing.
