Contests
The Diode Editions team is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2022 contests. Read on below for details and look for these books & chapbooks in 2023!
The Diode Editions Book & Chapbook Contests reopen in spring 2023. The press considers translations, welcomes collaborations, and accepts simultaneous submissions. Book contest winners receive a prize of $1,500. Chapbook contest winners receive a prize of $750.00. All winners receive publication by Diode Editions within a year, 20 author copies, and select poems from their book published in diode poetry journal.
New contest guidelines are forthcoming in spring 2023.
Contest Winners
2022
Full-length Book Prize Winners
The Badass Brontës, Jane Satterfield
A Glossary of Light and Shadow, Esther Ra
The Corrected Version, Rosanna Oh
Chapbook Prize Winners
#stringofbeads, Lee Ann Roripaugh
Self-Portrait in Hospital as Camus, Schneider K. Rancy
Full-length Book Prize Finalists
Little Iliads, Jean Gallagher
Visitation, Steven Gehrke
Grappling, Eddie Kim
Some Animal, Fay Dillof
Boneyard Heresies, Tina Schumann
Happy Poems & Other Lies, Jeddie Sophronius
The Alcestis Machine, Carolyn Oliver
ENSŌ CAROUSEL, Partridge Boswell
RITES OF THE DA CAPO, Stella Wong
Noctuary, Taylor Supplee
Chapbook Prize Finalists
Mediaeval Sentences, Kathleen Winter
The Bent Resemblant, Paula Cisewski
On Night, Christopher Nelson
COUNTERPOINT, Jasmine An
said the Frog to the Scorpion, Matthew E. Henry
In Arcadia, Craig Beaven
Smelling Static, Steffan Triplett
Prerecorded Weather, Noah Falck & Matt McBride
2021
Full-length Book Prize
Night Swim, Joan Kwon Glass
Yearn, Rage Hezekiah
Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke, Eric Tran
Chapbook Prize
She Has Dreamt Again of Water, Stephanie Niu
Of the Florids, Shawn Hoo
Sandman, Huan He
Cancer Voodoo, Melissa Johnson
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