Chapbook Contest
2020 Call for Entries
The annual Diode Editions Book & Chapbook Contests are now open through September 1, 2020. The contests are open to all poets over the age of 18 who write in English. Additionally, we welcome translations,* collaborations, hybrid works, and prose poetry.
Submission Guidelines
Please include:
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A title page with the title of your manuscript, your name, pronouns, address, telephone number and email.
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Your name should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript.
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An acknowledgments page: poems included in your manuscript may be previously published as long as there is an acknowledgments page.
Additional Notes
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Chapbooks are 26-42 pages (front matter is not included in page count).
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Entries will be accepted from March 15, 2020 through September 1, 2020.
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A winner will be announced by September 15, 2020 (we may publish more than one book).
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The winning book(s) will be launched at the 2021 AWP Conference.
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We accept simultaneous submissions, but if your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere, please notify us as soon as possible.
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*For manuscript submissions in languages other than English, please include an English translation for consideration.
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There is a $15.00 reading fee. For those with financial constraints, please reach out to us at diodeeditions@gmail.com.
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To pay the $15.00 reading fee using PayPal or credit, please click here:
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Please send receipt of payment and manuscript submissions to: diodeeditions@gmail.com with "Chapbook Contest" and the name of your manuscript in the subject field.
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Please include a copy of the payment receipt in the submission email.
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You may submit more than one manuscript however an $15.00 reading fee must accompany each submission.
Contest Prize
Winners will receive $500.00, 10 author copies, and select poems from the book will appear in Diode Poetry Journal. If the winner(s) can attend AWP 2021 in Kansas City, Missouri, they will have an opportunity to participate in an off-site reading, and also in signing sessions at the Diode Editions booth.
Past Book & Chapbook Prize Winners
2019
Full-length Book Prize
Nancy Chen Long Wider than the Sky
Zeeshan Khan Pathan The Minister of Disturbances
Chapbook Prize
Allison Joseph The Last Human Heart
Julia Cohen Good Timing & Gertrude Stein:
Inside Snoopy's snout maggots feast upon my blood
2018
Full-length Book Prize
Dorothy Chan Revenge of the Asian Woman
Jehanne Dubrow American Samizdat
KC Trommer We Call Them Beautiful
Chapbook Prize
Philip Metres Returning to Jaffa
Simone Person Smoke Girl
2017
Full-length Book Prize
Jared Harél Go Because I Love You
Catherine Bresner the empty season
Chapbook Prize
Alison Pelegrin Our Lady of the Flood
Hazem Fahmy Red//Jild//Prayer
Adam Falkner Adoption
2016
Full-length Book Prize
Remica Bingham-Risher Starlight & Error
Paula Cisewski quitter
Chapbook Prize
Shelley Wong Rare Birds
Tina Schumann Requiem: A Patrimony of Fugues
Seema Yasmin For Filthy Women Who Worry About Disappointing God
2015
Chapbook Prize
sam sax Straight
Vandana Khanna The Goddess Monologues
2012
Chapbook Prize
Traci Brimhall & Brynn Saito Bright Power, Dark Peace
