Chapbook Contest
2022 Guidelines
The Diode Editions Chapbook Contest is now open from February 1 through September 30, 2022 to all poets who write in English. We consider translations, welcome collaborations, and accept simultaneous submissions. If your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere, please notify us.
Winners will be announced by November 15, 2022. The winning chapbooks will be published within a year. Chapbook contest winners will receive $750.00, publication by Diode Editions, and 20 author copies. Winners will also have select poems from their chapbooks published in Diode Poetry Journal.
Submission Details
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Please include a title page with the title of your manuscript, your name, pronouns (optional), address, phone number, email, and brief contributor’s bio. Your name should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript beyond the title page.
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Please include an acknowledgments page.
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Chapbook length: 25-46 pages (front matter is not included in page count).
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There is a reading fee of $18.00. For alternative payment options and payment waivers, please email us at diodeeditions@gmail.com.
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Please send receipt of payment and manuscript submissions to diodeeditions@gmail.com with "Chapbook Contest" and the title of your manuscript in the subject field.
Book & Chapbook Prize Winners
2021
Full-length Book Prize
Night Swim, Joan Kwon Glass
Yearn, Rage Hezekiah
Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke, Eric Tran
Chapbook Prize
Stephanie Niu, She Has Dreamt Again of Water
Shawn Hoo, Of the Florids
Huan He, Sandman
Melissa Johnson, Cancer Voodoo
2020
Full-length Book Prize
Where the Wolf, Sally Rosen Kindred
The Enemy of My Enemy Is Me, Conor Bracken
GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues,
Shanta Lee Gander
Chapbook Prize
Faraway Places, Teow Lim Goh
Low Budget Movie, Kendra DeColo & Tyler Mills
Special Delivery, Natasha Sajé
Body Facts, Joey S. Kim
Slash / Slash, Amorak Huey & W. Todd Kaneko
2019
Full-length Book Prize
Wider than the Sky, Nancy Chen Long
The Minister of Disturbances, Zeeshan Khan Pathan
Chapbook Prize
The Last Human Heart, Allison Joseph
Good Timing & Gertrude Stein: Inside Snoopy's snout maggots feast upon my blood, Julia Cohen
2018
Full-length Book Prize
Revenge of the Asian Woman, Dorothy Chan
American Samizdat, Jehanne Dubrow
We Call Them Beautiful, KC Trommer
Chapbook Prize
Returning to Jaffa, Philip Metres
Smoke Girl, Simone Person
2017
Full-length Book Prize
Go Because I Love You, Jared Harél
the empty season, Catherine Bresner
Chapbook Prize
Our Lady of the Flood, Alison Pelegrin
Red//Jild//Prayer, Hazem Fahmy
Adoption, Adam Falkner
2016
Full-length Book Prize
Starlight & Error, Remica Bingham-Risher
quitter, Paula Cisewski
Chapbook Prize
Rare Birds, Shelley Wong
Requiem: A Patrimony of Fugues, Tina Schumann
For Filthy Women Who Worry About Disappointing God, Seema Yasmin
2015
Chapbook Prize
Straight, sam sax
The Goddess Monologues, Vandana Khanna
2012
Chapbook Prize
Bright Power, Dark Peace, Traci Brimhall & Brynn Saito