Special Contest Announcement!

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 and Matt McBride