Chapbook Contest

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The annual Diode Editions Book & Chapbook Contests are now closed. Contest winners and finalists will be announced soon!

 

Contest Prize

Winners will receive $500.00, 10 author copies, and select poems from the book will appear in Diode Poetry Journal. 

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Past Book & Chapbook Prize Winners

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2019

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Full-length Book Prize

Nancy Chen Long Wider than the Sky

Zeeshan Khan Pathan The Minister of Disturbances

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Chapbook Prize

Allison Joseph The Last Human Heart

Julia Cohen Good Timing & Gertrude Stein:
Inside Snoopy's snout maggots feast upon my blood

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2018

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Full-length Book Prize

Dorothy Chan Revenge of the Asian Woman

Jehanne Dubrow American Samizdat

KC Trommer We Call Them Beautiful

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Chapbook Prize

Philip Metres Returning to Jaffa

Simone Person Smoke Girl

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2017

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Full-length Book Prize

Jared Harél Go Because I Love You

Catherine Bresner the empty season

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Chapbook Prize

Alison Pelegrin Our Lady of the Flood

Hazem Fahmy Red//Jild//Prayer

Adam Falkner Adoption

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2016

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Full-length Book Prize

Remica Bingham-Risher Starlight & Error

Paula Cisewski quitter

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Chapbook Prize

Shelley Wong Rare Birds

Tina Schumann Requiem: A Patrimony of Fugues

Seema Yasmin For Filthy Women Who Worry About Disappointing God

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2015

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Chapbook Prize

sam sax Straight

Vandana Khanna The Goddess Monologues

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2012

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Chapbook Prize

Traci Brimhall & Brynn Saito Bright Power, Dark Peace

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