Chapbook Contest

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2021 Call for Entries

The annual Diode Editions Book & Chapbook Contests are now open through August 15th, 2021. 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:

  • A title page with the title of your manuscript, your name, pronouns, address, telephone number and email. 

  • Your name should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript.

  • An acknowledgments page: poems included in your manuscript may be previously published as long as there is an acknowledgements page.

Additional Notes

  • Length: 25-50 pages (front matter is not included in page count).

  • Entries will be accepted between February 15th and August 15, 2021.

  • A winner will be announced by August 30, 2021. We may publish more than one chapbook.

  • The winning chapbook(s) will be published by March 1, and will be launched at the 2022 AWP Conference in Philadelphia.

  • We accept simultaneous submissions, but if your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere, please notify us as soon as possible.

  • *For manuscript submissions in languages other than English, please include an English translation for consideration.

  • There is an $18.00 reading fee. For those with financial constraints, please reach out to us at diodeeditions@gmail.com.

  • To pay the reading fee using PayPal or credit, please click here:

  • You may submit more than one manuscript however an $18.00 reading fee must accompany each submission.

  • Please send receipt of payment and manuscript submissions to: diodeeditions@gmail.com and include "Chapbook Contest," and the name of your manuscript in the subject.

 

Contest Prize

Winners will receive $500.00, 25 author copies, and select poems from the book will appear in Diode Poetry Journal. If the winner(s) can attend AWP, they will have an opportunity to participate in an off-site reading, and in signing sessions at the Diode Editions booth.

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Past Book & Chapbook Prize Winners

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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

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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

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2019

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Full-length Book Prize

Wider than the Sky, Nancy Chen Long

The Minister of Disturbances, Zeeshan Khan Pathan

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Chapbook Prize

 The Last Human Heart, Allison Joseph

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

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2018

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Full-length Book Prize

 Revenge of the Asian Woman, Dorothy Chan

 American Samizdat, Jehanne Dubrow

 We Call Them Beautiful, KC Trommer

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Chapbook Prize

 Returning to Jaffa, Philip Metres

 Smoke Girl, Simone Person

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2017

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Full-length Book Prize

Go Because I Love You, Jared Harél 

the empty season, Catherine Bresner

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Chapbook Prize

 Our Lady of the Flood, Alison Pelegrin

Red//Jild//Prayer, Hazem Fahmy 

 Adoption, Adam Falkner

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2016

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Full-length Book Prize

 Starlight & Error, Remica Bingham-Risher

quitter, Paula Cisewski

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Chapbook Prize

 Rare Birds, Shelley Wong

 Requiem: A Patrimony of Fugues, Tina Schumann

 For Filthy Women Who Worry About Disappointing God, Seema Yasmin

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2015

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Chapbook Prize

 Straight, sam sax

 The Goddess Monologues, Vandana Khanna

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2012

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Chapbook Prize

Bright Power, Dark Peace, Traci Brimhall & Brynn Saito

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