Chapbook Contest
We're over-the-moon to share the winners of the 2020 Diode Editions Book & Chapbook Contests! We received an overwhelming number of excellent manuscripts and we're humbled that so many wonderful writers thought enough of Diode Editions to submit to us. Thank you for honoring us with your work.
— The Diode Team
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
Full-length Book Finalists
[B-Dragon Suite], Stine Su Yon An (안수연)
(A) V(ERTIGO BOOK), Carolyn Guinzio
The Irresistible Allure of Drowning Men, Katerina Stoykova
Field Guide to Living with Yourself, Shuang Ang
Lore, Brianna Noll
寂寞 • 先知 (LONELY PROPHET), Michael Chang
So Much More: Abstracts, Unfinished Sequences, and Political Prose Poems, Darren Demaree
Wolf Tours, Alyse Knorr
The Green We Speak, Ira Sukrungruang
Chapbook Finalists
Flower Boi, Nadine Marshall
Bloodwarm, Taylor Byas
Autobiography of the boi Venus, kiki nicole
Knife Splitting Watermelon, Nasma Kublawi
Epistolarium. Letters to the Usual Suspects, Tina Schumann
Ripening Kind, Erin Miller
Prerecorded Weather, Noah Falck & Matt McBride
Past Book & Chapbook Prize Winners
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