2023 BURNSIDE REVIEW CHAPBOOK CONTEST. Winner receives $200 and 10 copies. Chapbooks are elegantly designed with letter-pressed covers. Runs May 1–June 30. Submit 18–24 pages of poetry. $15 entry fee. All submissions must be made through our submission manager, www.burnsidereview.org.
MAP LITERARY IS THRILLED to announce Fiona Lu’s How to Become the God of Small Things as the winner of the 2023 Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award! This prize honors our late poet, professor, and colleague at William Paterson University by promoting provocative new literature with the production of a high-quality chapbook. Website: www.mapliterary.org.
SWAN SCYTHE PRESS announces its 2023 poetry chapbook contest. Entry fee: $18. We are accepting submissions from March 1 to June 15 (postmark deadline). Winner receives $200 and 25 perfect-bound chapbooks. The 2022 winner is Arthur Solway for Siddhartha on Fire. For full guidelines, visit www.swanscythepress.com and swanscythepress.submittable.com/submit.
WORDTECH COMMUNICATIONS LLC is holding a reading period for poetry chapbooks. Dates: May 1–June 30 (e-mail submission). Recent authors: Rhina Espaillat, Lee Herrick, Allison Joseph, Lester Graves Lennon, Alison Stone, Andrena Zawinski. Publication in 2024. Guidelines: www.wordtechcommunications.com/deadline-list.htm.