Chapbook Contest
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:
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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 acknowledgements page.
Additional Notes
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Length: 25-50 pages (front matter is not included in page count).
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Entries will be accepted between February 15th and August 15, 2021.
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A winner will be announced by August 30, 2021. We may publish more than one chapbook.
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The winning chapbook(s) will be published by March 1, and will be launched at the 2022 AWP Conference in Philadelphia.
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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 an $18.00 reading fee. For those with financial constraints, please reach out to us at diodeeditions@gmail.com.
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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.
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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.
Past Book & Chapbook Prize Winners
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